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Empirical study of reflective supervision/consultation (RS/C) has been gaining ground over the past decade. However, much of this literature is focused on the supervisor perspective of what RS/C is, what makes it effective, and how it impacts the work of the supervisee. This paper, Part II of a two-part series, presents a theoretical model of RS/C that was developed from the perspectives and experiences of supervisees who work with infants, young children, and families and participate in either group or individual RS/C. This qualitative study built upon themes that emerged from data obtained from 50 IECMH professionals in the United States who participated in focus groups or individual interviews aimed at investigating their experiences of RS/C. Data were analyzed using a Grounded Theory approach. A developmental and ecological theoretical model of RS/C emerged from the data that includes three domains of influence - individual, relational, and contextual - on the supervisee's capacity to understand and use their experience of RS/C in their work. These novel data contribute to our understanding of RS/C from the supervisee perspective. The theoretical model provides a framework from which to investigate outcomes, train supervisors and supervisees, and advocate for RS/C within agencies and programs.

El estudio empírico de la supervisión/consulta con reflexión (RS/C) ha estado ganando terreno en la pasada década. Sin embargo, la mayoría de estas publicaciones se enfocan en la perspectiva del supervisor acerca de lo que RS/C es, lo que la hace eficaz y qué impacto tiene en el trabajo del supervisado. Este ensayo, Parte II de una serie de dos partes, presenta un modelo teórico de RS/C que se desarrolló a partir de las perspectivas y experiencias de los supervisados que trabajan con infantes, niños pequeños y familias y participan en RS/C de grupo o individual. Este estudio cualitativo tuvo como base los temas que surgieron de datos obtenidos de cincuenta profesionales de IECMH en los Estados Unidos, quienes participaron en grupos de enfoque o entrevistas individuales dirigidas a investigar sus experiencias de RS/C. La información se analizó usando un acercamiento de Teoría Fundamentada. De la información surgió un modelo teorético de desarrollo y ecológico de RS/C que incluye tres dominios de influencia - individual, relacional y contextual - sobre la capacidad de los supervisados de comprender y usar sus experiencias de RS/C en el trabajo. Esta novedosa información contribuye a nuestro conocimiento de RS/C desde la perspectiva del supervisado. El modelo teórico provee un marco de trabajo desde el cual se investigan los resultados, se entrenan los supervisores y supervisados, y se aboga por la inclusión de RS/C dentro de agencias y programas.

Les études empiriques de la supervision / consultation réflexive (RS/C pour reprendre l'anglais) a gagné du terrain ces dix dernières années. Cependant beaucoup de ces recherches sont focalisées sur la perspective du superviseur de ce qu'est la RS/C, ce qui rend la rend efficace, et comment elle influence le travail de la personne supervisée. Cet article, la deuxième partie d'une série en deux parties, présente un modèle théorique de la RS/C qui a été développé à partir des perspectives et des expériences de personnes supervisées travaillant avec des nourrissons, de jeunes enfants et des familles et participant à soit une RS/C de groupe ou individuelle. Cette étude qualitative s'est bâtie sur des thèmes ayant émergé de données obtenues de cinquante professionnels de la santé mentale du nourrisson et de la petite enfance se trouvant aux Etats-Unis qui ont participé à des groupes de discussion ou à des entretiens individuels destinés à enquêter sur leurs expériences de la RS/C. Les données ont été analysées en utilisant une approche de Théorie Ancrée. Un modèle théorique développemental et écologique de RS/C a émergé des données, incluant trois domaines d'influence - individuel, relationnel, et contextuel - sur la capacité de la personne supervisée à comprendre et à utiliser ses expériences de la RS/C dans le travail. Ces nouvelles données contribuent à notre compréhension de la RS/C du point de vue de la personne supervisée. Le modèle théorique offre une structure à partir de laquelle on peut faire des recherches sur les résultats, former les superviseurs et les personnes supervisées, et se faire les avocats de la RS/C au sein des agences et des programmes.

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The Michigan Association for Infant Mental Health identified a need for reflective supervision training for infant mental health (IMH) specialists providing home-based services to highly vulnerable infants and their families. Findings indicate that this pilot of an IMH community mental health professional development model was successful, as measured by the participants' increased capacity to apply reflective practice and supervisory knowledge and skills. Furthermore, IMH clinicians demonstrated an increase in the frequency of their use of reflective practice skills, and their supervisors demonstrated an increase in their sense of self-efficacy regarding reflective supervisory tasks. Finally, the evaluation included a successful pilot of new measures designed to measure reflective practice, contributing to the growing body of research in the area of reflective supervision.

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The work of home visitors in early childhood fields may include addressing many challenges to achieving curricular outcomes, including issues such as maintaining boundaries and managing one's own reactions to children, parents, and overall family situations. Increasingly, reflective supervision and consultation are recognized as a way for workers in home-visiting early intervention and early care fields to address these personal and professional challenges and build competence (Watson, Gatti, Cox, Harrison, & Hennes, ). The features of home visiting that make reflective supervision/consultation essential are discussed. Next, results of a pilot project in which a sample of Part C early intervention providers respond to a vignette portraying a challenging parent-child interaction are briefly presented and discussed. Despite often stating the importance of relationships, participants did not identify concrete methods of supporting relationship or demonstrate recognition of parallel process. In addition, providers seldom endorsed the use of reflective skills such as observing, listening, wondering, or reflecting (Weatherston, ), and no providers discussed a need for reflective supervision/consultation. We suggest that these findings illustrate some of the areas in which early intervention home visitors could benefit from participation in reflective supervision/consultation to move from identifying reflective skills as important to actually being able to use such skills in their work with families.

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Reflective supervision is considered a key practice component for any infant mental health provider to work effectively with young children and their families. This article will provide a brief history and discussion of reflective supervision followed by a case study demonstrating the importance of reflective supervision in the context of child-parent psychotherapy (CPP; A.F. Lieberman, C. Ghosh Ippen, & P. Van Horn, ; A.F. Lieberman & P. Van Horn, , 2008). Given that CPP leverages the caregiver-child relationship as the mechanism for change in young children who have been impacted by stressors and traumas, primary objectives of CPP include assisting caregivers as they understand the meaning of their child's distress and improving the caregiver-child relationship to make it a safe and supportive space in which the child can heal. As this case will demonstrate, when a clinician is emotionally triggered by a family's negative intergenerational patterns of relating, reflective supervision supports a parallel process in which the psychotherapist feels understood and contained by the supervisor so that she or he is able to support the caregiver's efforts to understand and contain the child.

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This preliminary study examines an initiative to further develop capacity in reflective practice among public health home visitors and their supervisors. A Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) Expansion Grant to the Minnesota Department of Health funded the development of a tiered structure to support reflective practice within county public health agencies throughout the state. Study data revealed a general consensus among individuals at all levels of the county programs that state supports were adequate to implement reflective practice. Although there were no significant changes in home-visitor and supervisor scores on a standardized measure linked to reflective functioning and reflective practice, a majority of home visitors and supervisors perceived that their knowledge and skills in reflective practice had increased during the evaluation period. A standardized measure of employee burnout did not reveal significant changes in either "depersonalization" (indicating burnout) or "personal accomplishment" (a mitigating factor in burnout) subscales; however, home visitor "emotional exhaustion" subscale scores did increase over the evaluation period. In contrast to the subscale results, home visitors reported a sense of accomplishment in their reflective work and that they value "releasing" emotions in a safe environment during reflective supervision.

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This article proposes how group reflective supervision, informed by the theory of reflective functioning, may provide a powerful method for developing reflective capacity of staff serving families, infants, and young children in multidisciplinary settings. An explanation of reflective functioning, related research, and its relevance to relational treatment and preventive intervention are discussed. Other approaches to reflective practice are referenced. We describe the necessary tension and encounters with distressing affect that mark reflective supervision groups using this focus. In addition, we identify areas of heightened difficulty in infant family work and describe how a group supervision process that enables use of self alongside perspectives of others may address these challenges while leading to increased reflective capacity among participants. Finally, we touch on relevant research on group supervision and parameters of size and focus, and highlight facilitation skills needed to create group safety and coherence. Areas for further study are proposed.

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Recent implementation science in mental health has focused on identifying the most effective strategies to disseminate and implement evidence-based treatments (EBTs) into real-world practice settings. The learning collaborative training methodology and its use of expert trainers/consultants have become increasingly popular as one of these approaches. Moreover, there is preliminary evidence that ongoing expert consultation may increase the adoption, learning, and sustainability of EBTs by an already practicing workforce and, consequently, help trainers, practitioners, and organizations address implementation barriers. This article describes the authors' experiences in facilitating Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP) training and explores the role of reflective clinical consultation as an active process that supports the implementation of a rich, but complex, model that requires sophisticated knowledge and skills from practitioners. It examines the intricate range of the CPP consultant's functions, which ultimately support clinicians' reflective practice as they learn and adopt this EBT. Reflective consultation is proposed as an essential component for the integration of knowledge, experience, and emotions in practitioners and as a catalyst for organizational change. Using their voices as trainers-consultants and those of their trainees, the authors discuss the implications of reflective consultation for the effective implementation and sustainability of CPP. Reflections are offered on lessons learned.

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Reflective practice forms a pivotal part of mental health intervention in a setting where language and cultural differences require working together with a community counselor for language interpretation. Reflective practice in infant mental health began with Esther Bick's () infant observations and continued with Selma Fraiberg's () parent-infant psychotherapy. These two models formed the basis of the practice of infant mental health in a community in South Africa. A clinical example will highlight the importance of culturally informed observation that is then reflected upon. A qualitative study that examined the interaction among the participants in three clinical settings shows that a sustained partnership and tolerance for flexibility lie at the heart of good practice in intercultural settings. Object-relations theory offers an additional, in-depth understanding of the underlying psychic processes in reflective practice.

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