ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the Australian perspectives of clinical supervision. It
draws attention to the practice of clinical supervision in teaching and, as a
result of this association, it highlights the current difficulty in conceptualising
clinical supervision as an independent entity in Australia. The chapter then
examines the extent of clinical supervision practice and discusses the current
barriers and resisters to supervision. One such resister is the clinicians’ confu-
sion that arises by amalgamating clinical supervision with managerial super-
vision, and the resulting resistance to engage in supervision whilst it remains
coupled in this way.
