Do you supervise counsellors and psychologists-in-training? If so, do you ask them for feedback about your own supervision? If you do, then this study is for you. If you're interested in participating, please let me know. All interested supervisors will, first, complete a short, 4-item measure of supervision practice and, second, a 30-minute phone interview. This particular study will involve 10-12 registered psychologists who supervise students, interns/residents, and provisionally licensed psychologists.
I would like to thank you for participating in the study. Your cooperation will be of tremendous help to me in completing my dissertation study.
To more fully understand supervisors’ feedback practice in clinical supervision, I am conducting a qualitative study which has two stages: (1) selecting eligible participants through a 4-item measure of supervision practice, and (2) a follow-up telephone interviews with selected respondents. The interview has two groups of questions. The first group is about supervision in general, and the second group is about your feedback practice in clinical supervision.
Your participation is voluntary, and your responses will remain strictly confidential. You would be free to withdraw at any time. All the data obtained from the screening measure will be removed from the data collection website server after all the participants are selected. The interview will be audiotaped and transcribed; however, all identifying data will be removed during transcription. Qualitative data will be analyzed by our research team using Consensual Qualitative Research (CQR) and reported in my dissertation, and may be submitted for presentation and publication. There are no direct benefits to the participants. However, the participants may have a chance to reflect their supervision practice by being interviewed. The benefit to the field includes an increase in our knowledge about supervisors’ feedback practices in clinical supervision. There are no known risks associated with participation.
Raw data, which includes the identifying information, will be stored on an encrypted USB key which is kept in a locked filing cabinet. All the other digital data will be stored in an encrypted folder on an encrypted computer. Identifying information will be removed immediately after transcription and data entry. Also, the PI will inform all research team members of the importance of confidentiality and means to protect it and each of them is required to sign a research confidentiality agreement. The research team, which includes four doctoral students from the Department of Educational Psychology, University of Alberta, will have access to the transcribed scripts in which identifying information is removed. The data will not be used for any purposes after the proposed research is completed. Data will be securely and confidentially stored for 5 years, per the University's data retention policy. After that, it will be properly and completely destroyed.