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Workshop 3: PPIS Coordinated Multi-Pronged Supervision Programme: Towards An Evidence Based Approach’ The third group is the advanced group which has a greater emphasis on knowledge and skills and working with clients. Building on the role of the supervisor in the previous group, the supervisor’s role in the advanced group is to help supervisees to identify how what they do affects the client and vice versa and how that often translates into a cycle of action and reaction with the client. Ms Mosli also shared an example of how the client’s actions or reactions toward us can often have an impact on our own perception of ourselves. It is therefore paramount that the supervisor processes this with the supervisee. Implementation A clear structure for supervision has therefore been formed in PPIS and it involves a process of on-going feedback. ken from Slides Presented at SWAAB Supervision Seminar 2015 Taken In this structure, there is an on-going process of feedback between each level. Challenges and Possibilities Challenges One of the challenges Ms Mosli raised involves the need for the support of centre managers in implementing the supervision structure. For PDCSSP to kick start, an administrative process has been established to help better coordinate the implementation. She also mentioned that another challenge was in developing the language for this endeavor. This is where systemic Ideas and language was chosen and used to frame the supervisory practice and promoted it as a language commonly used for supervision across centres. Lastly, she also mentioned the challenge of workers having a tight schedule that may lead them to neglect casework in the event where they are too focused on the clinical aspect. Possibilities Some of the potential that Ms Mosli sees in supervision is that it will help workers learn to “practice” in more thoughtful ways and “theorize” in more relevant ways. In addition, it will potentially develop a culture of supervision and will increase the use of evidence-based research in supervision. It will also create collaboration and a fraternity of reflexive practice in supervision. 57