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AASECT Guidelines for Supervision
Tips for a
Successful Experience
Prepared by Gretchen Fincke
Chair
of the AASECT Supervision Committee
revised June 2008
In order to start the supervision process a SUPERVISION
CONTRACT must be put in writing between the supervisor and the
supervisee. The contract needs to read something like:
Contract of Supervision
This
contract of supervision between __________________________________,
Supervisor, and ______________________________________, Supervisee,
will be in effect for (1 year? 2 years?) from date of signing.
Then you must include the following:
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Setting for supervision (e.g. office address, clinic setting)
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Population that the supervisee will see (men, women,
adolescents, heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, transsexual)
and in what format (individual, couples, group)
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The supervisee will be working with cases of DSM IV diagnoses of
desire, arousal, and orgasm phase difficulties as well as
medically related sexual dysfunctions. If the supervisee wants
to add cases of sexual compulsivity or sexual assault survival
that is fine but the emphasis should be on the DSM categories.
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Type of supervision: as example - "Two hours of face-to-face
supervision every two weeks. Supervision may include case
presentation, role-playing, audio/visual tapes (or whatever you
plan to do), You can also do group supervision is you want and
if so there needs to be a mix between individual and group.
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Include a signature line for both supervisor and supervisee with
date.
You
send in the original contract (MAKE COPIES) to the AASECT office
along with the following materials:
Copy of
supervisor's vita*;
Copy of supervisee's vita;
Copy of
supervisor's AASECT Certification certificate;
Complete contact information for both
including e-mail if you have it.
The
AASECT office will forward the material to the supervision committee
for approval. The turn around time once the committee receives the
material is about 4 days and then we notify the AASECT office and
they notify you that the contract has been approved. If there are
any questions about the contract, the chair of the supervision
committee will contact the people involved directly.
*If the supervisor is certified by AASECT as a supervisor, they
need only send a copy of the certification certificate and do not
need to send their vita.
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Checklist of things that are helpful in the supervision process:
From the very beginning have the supervisee start organizing things
into categories by following the categories outlined on the
application for certification. Suggest folders, loose-leaf notebooks
with plastic inserts. If they can stay organized then they avoid the
nightmare of sorting paperwork at the end.
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Document, document - every workshop, class, in-service, seminar,
conference. If it does not have CEs attached but does pertain to the
training have them save the course description or outline.
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Remember that courses taken as an undergraduate do count, even if it
was years ago. That may be the only time that a person took
physiology or pharmacology. They can get their transcripts for
documentation. If there is a big hole in their training they can go
take a college course as a special student to fill in if needed.
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As a supervisor you need to hear how the therapist will work the
whole course of the case as they go. They should have some cases
that include medical complications, disease complications, and dual
diagnosis complications so you can assess their ability to deal with
how those issues impact on sexuality.
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Getting input from more than one supervisor is helpful.
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The supervisor should document during (or after) the supervision
session what type of cases were talked about and briefly what the
major issues were. Supervisors are asked to attest to the type and
number of cases that the supervisee worked with during the time of
supervision so supervisors need notes also. (See application form
for certification)
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The need for extra vigorous ethical standards for sex therapists
needs to be explored thoroughly. Explain what can happen if a
patient accuses a therapist of inappropriate sexual behavior even
when there is no grounds for it. Talk about boundary issues
exhaustively.
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