Publisher The British Psychological Society Journal Clinical Psychology Forum Downloaded 9-Apr-2016 08:12:58

CLINICAL PLACEMENT supervision isregarded as the cornerstone of train-ing for psychologists in trainee clini-cal psychologists (hereafter referred to as ‘trainees’). Clinical supervision is ‘a rela-tionship-based education and training’ (Milne, 2007, p.440) that is developed and maintained through collaboration between the trainee and the supervisor (Milne & Grace, 2001). For many years, it has been accepted that satisfaction with supervision received is a necessary condition for high quality staff training (Kirkpatrick, 1967, as cited in Radcliffe & Milne, 2010). However, as highlighted by East (2011), clinical supervision is an extremely broad area, and while it is difficult for supervision to be per-fect every time, there is some indication of what, in the supervisee’s opinion, would make for good and valued practice. Build-ing on previous research into trainees ’ clin-ical competency set and supervisory activities (O’Callaghan & Byrne, 2011) and trainees ’ perceptions of the supervision they receive (Milne, 2008; Wilson, 2007), this current study aimed to profile trainee perceptions of their supervisors ’ skills, their experiences of supervision received, and the relationship between these