Supervision and Training
What this domain tests
Supervision and training tests how you build and monitor supervisee competence: supervision contracts, behavioral skills training (BST), feedback, delegation, documentation, and data-based supervision.
Core rules
- Establish a written supervision contract covering goals, roles, hours, feedback, and evaluation.
- BST: instruction, modeling, rehearsal, and feedback until criterion.
- Feedback should be specific, timely, and behaviorally described; praise and corrective feedback both matter.
- Collect data on supervisee performance and on client outcomes; supervisory decisions should be data-based.
- Delegate only tasks the supervisee can perform competently; retain responsibility for client welfare.
- Document supervision contacts, competencies, and remediation.
- Plan for generalization from supervision to the workplace.
Worked example
A supervisee must run discrete-trial teaching. You explain the steps, model a session, have the supervisee rehearse with you, then observe a live session and give feedback on specific components (prompt timing, reinforcement delivery). You collect a treatment-integrity checklist across three sessions; the supervisee reaches 90% before working independently. Reasoning: reading a manual is not BST; rehearsal plus feedback plus data is.
Traps
Counting supervision as a meeting without performance data; giving vague feedback ("do better"); allowing a supervisee to practice outside their competence; failing to document; supervising only in one setting and assuming generalization.