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Examining Our Attitudes toward Clinical Supervision

Examining Our Attitudes toward Clinical Supervision
Jennifer Kerr, MS, CCC-SLP
July 9, 2015
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This text-based course is a transcript of the webinar, Examining Our Attitudes toward Clinical Supervision, presented by Jennifer Kerr, MS, CCC-SLP.

>> Jennifer Kerr:  The first thing I want to talk about is the Powell Attitude Supervision handouts (link).  There are two handouts; one on the supervision scale and then another one on the actual scoring.  We will be looking at those as we begin the presentation.

We are going to talk about our attitudes toward clinical supervision.  This is not a lecture necessarily on how to be a great supervisor or how to help your students or supervisees improve their skills; it is really looking inwardly at our own beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors and how that translates into our supervisory experience.  For those of us that have been doing this for a while, our feelings about supervision can vary. You might feel that you are an encourager, and that is your “superpower.”  Your attitude some days might be that you could take it or leave it, you are not really feeling it today, and you do not feel like supervising. Sometimes it is just leave me alone, I am doing the best I can.  There is no judgment here and we need to understand that all of these attitudes can shift and be dynamic, depending on the circumstance. 

Learning Outcomes

As we go into the learning objectives, these are specific things that I hope that you will take away from this presentation.  You should be able to define your attitude toward supervision using very descriptive terms.  I think it is important to define what we are talking about.  Sometimes, we throw words around without really knowing what we are saying.  Examples can be things like attitude, professionalism, confidence; we do not really define the behaviors attached to it.  I am hoping after today you will be able to really define your attitude towards supervision. 

We will review some toxic and facilitative supervisory traits as identified by students.  You will be able to list at least five of each of those. 

We will define the four key components of the main tool that we are going to discuss today, which is the SWOT analysis tool, and then list at least three personally relevant items within each SWOT category.  This will make more sense obviously as we go along in the presentation. 

Then you should be able to describe how the SWOT tool can be used effectively for personal goal development and as a multipurpose tool with your supervisees.  I am a big fan of tools that can help facilitate interaction and communication, and the SWOT tool is one I just started using within the last year.  It has made a difference with how I interact with my supervisees. 


jennifer kerr

Jennifer Kerr, MS, CCC-SLP

Jennifer Kerr is a clinical assistant professor at Missouri State University (MSU). She has over 15 years of clinical experience working with adult populations as a medical speech-language pathologist (SLP) and 7 years of teaching and supervisory experience at the university level. Her primary clinical interest areas are aphasia, motor speech disorders, cognitive-linguistic communication, and working with caregivers. Her primary focus as an educator includes teaching undergraduate communication sciences and disorders majors and mentoring and supervising SLP graduate students. Prior to joining the faculty at MSU, Jennifer was a clinical instructor at the University of Washington, which is where she also earned her master of science in speech-language pathology. She continues to work clinically in the medical setting as a per diem SLP. Jennifer also holds a bachelor of science in communication studies from the Florida State University.



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