Getting to Grips with Evaluation in Supervision

In recent years, the New Zealand Association of Counsellors has been addressing the predominance in our contemporary health and social services on competencies, evidence- based practice, practice- based evidence and outcome evaluation measures. This facilitated workshop drew on the findings of the four-year multidisciplinary research project (NRO1 and NRO2) exploring how the evaluation of supervision is conducted within four different professions (counselling, mental health nursing, psychology and social work) and analyzing what is presently occurring within each profession and their preferences for evaluation of supervision in the future. The workshop presented the evaluation framework (adapted from Milne’s fidelity framework (2104)) that the researchers have developed as an outcome of the research