Template for Supervision reports

Template for supervision reports to the BalintANZ Training Committee

The Training Committee requires the following:

1. Dates and number of sessions since the previous report
2. 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
3. Other comments, ideas and suggestions that will encourage and facilitate the supervisee’s development, competence and creativity as a Balint group leader