Clinical supervision across Australia, Türkiye, Syria, and Bangladesh: From WEIRD to WONDERFUL
The aim of this paper is to present a decolonial model of supervision called “WONDERFUL Supervision”.
Abstract
Clinical supervision in providing mental health and psychosocial support services (MHPSSs) is an ethical imperative and a key to ensuring quality of care in terms of service users’ skills enhancement, well-being, and satisfaction. However, humanitarian contexts in low-resource countries usually lack sufficient infrastructures to ensure staff have access to supervision.
A pilot supervision programme was introduced in Bangladesh and Syria to help MHPSS staff provide quality care. This paper explores how supervision provided by experts unfamiliar with these contexts decontextualises the supervision process and hinders cultural relevance. It presents a decolonial model of supervision called “WONDERFUL Supervision”
This research was supported by the Research for Health in Humanitarian Crises (R2HC) Programme.
Citation
Lekkeh SA, Faruk MO, Jahan S, Beetar A, Kurt G, Wells R, Wong S. ‘Clinical Supervision across Australia, Türkiye, Syria, and Bangladesh: From WEIRD to WONDERFUL’. Social Sciences 2023: volume 12, issue 3, page 170.
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Clinical Supervision across Australia, Türkiye, Syria, and Bangladesh: From WEIRD to WONDERFUL