ABSTRACT
What can we deduce from these selected quotations? What is the role of training in the acquisition and assurance of high-quality supervision? Can it make a difference to supervisory practice? This chapter will attempt to shed some light on these issues through an examination of the current training of clinical psychology supervisors in the UK. Earlier chapters in this book have addressed the functions of supervision both in general and within clinical psychology in particular. In this chapter we wish to report on the current situation with regard to clinical psychology in Britain concerning the training of clinical psychologists as supervisors, and to discuss the data collected in a survey with respect to the current state of knowledge about supervision. The data concern supervision of pre-qualification practice (i.e. of trainee clinical psychologists), although the relationship that this may have with post-qualification supervision will be discussed.
