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DIRECT SUPERVISION: ADDING COMPUTER‐ASSISTED FEEDBACK AND DATA CAPTURE TO LIVE SUPERVISION
Author(s) -
Smith Russell C.,
Mead D. Eugene,
Kinsella Judith A.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
journal of marital and family therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.868
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1752-0606
pISSN - 0194-472X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1752-0606.1998.tb01066.x
Subject(s) - supervisor , process (computing) , perception , psychology , clinical supervision , computer science , human–computer interaction , psychotherapist , management , neuroscience , economics , operating system
This is a critical review of live supervision with emphasis on technical innovations such as earphones or bug‐in‐the‐ear, Teleprompters, and computers. A computer‐assisted approach is described that overcomes many criticisms of live supervision. Direct supervision uses a computer monitor to unobtrusively provide information to the therapist about the supervisor's perceptions of the clients' and therapist's behavior, the expected therapeutic behaviors, and the therapist's “on target” behavior. Direct supervision has the advantage over other forms of supervision by providing an immediate, continuous, and permanent record for postsession supervision and for research into the supervisor‐therapist‐client process. The paper provides several suggestions for research.