Template for Supervision reports
Template for supervision reports to the BSANZ Accreditation Committee
The Accreditation Committee requires the following:
- Dates and number of sessions since the previous report
- Comments about the supervisee’s progress and development in the following areas:
- maintenance of appropriate boundaries for Balint group work
- creation of a safe environment conducive to trust and learning
- understanding of the importance of the clinical relationship
- facilitation of group members to participate in the group
- the development of the co-leader relationship
- helping the group to avoid solutions and didactic teaching
- protecting the presenter
- awareness of group processes, unconscious factors and group development that can influence and affect the task of the group and its members
- understanding and maintenance of the ‘Balint frame’
- understanding and maintenance of confidentiality
- facilitation of the work of the group, including speculation, themes, keeping the group focused on the doctor-patient relationship
- ability to reflect on leadership skills, including the capacity to identify and critique his or her own contributions to the work and processes of the group
- introduction of Balint group work to participants in a group for the first time, including the history of the Balint movement
- Other comments, ideas and suggestions that will encourage and facilitate the supervisee’s development, competence and creativity as a Balint group leader