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Providing objective feedback in supervision in motivational interviewing: results from a randomized controlled trial

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 November 2019

Maria Beckman Open the ORCID record for Maria Beckman [Opens in a new window] ,
Lars Forsberg ,
Helena Lindqvist  and
Ata Ghaderi
Maria Beckman*
Affiliation:
Centre for Psychiatric Research, Karolinska Institutet, and Stockholm Health Care Services, Stockholm County Council, Sweden
Lars Forsberg
Affiliation:
MIC Lab AB, Stockholm, Sweden
Helena Lindqvist
Affiliation:
Centre for Psychiatric Research, Karolinska Institutet, and Stockholm Health Care Services, Stockholm County Council, Sweden
Ata Ghaderi
Affiliation:
Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Division of Psychology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
*
*Corresponding author. Email: maria.beckman@ki.se
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Abstract

Background:

The effects of the use of objective feedback in supervision on the supervisory relationship and skill acquisition is unknown.

Aims:

The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of two different types of objective feedback provided during supervision in motivational interviewing (MI) on: (a) the supervisory relationship, including potential feelings of discomfort/distress, provoked by the supervision sessions, and (b) the supervisees’ skill acquisition.

Method:

Data were obtained from a MI dissemination study conducted in five county councils across five county councils across Sweden. All 98 practitioners recorded sessions with standardized clients and were randomized to either systematic feedback based on only the behavioral component of a feedback protocol, or systematic feedback based on the entire protocol.

Results:

The two different ways to provide objective feedback did not negatively affect the supervisory relationship, or provoke discomfort/distress among the supervisees, and the group that received the behavioural component of the feedback protocol performed better on only two of the seven skill measures.

Conclusions:

Objective feedback does not seem to negatively affect either the supervisor–supervisee working alliance or the supervisees’ supervision experience. The observed differences in MI skill acquisition were small, and constructive replications are needed to ascertain the mode and complexity of feedback that optimizes practitioners’ learning, while minimizing the sense of discomfort and distress.

Keywords

clinical supervisionmotivational interviewingobjective feedbacktraining
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Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy , Volume 48 , Issue 4 , July 2020 , pp. 383 - 394
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© British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies 2019

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