Clinical Supervision across Australia, Türkiye, Syria, and Bangladesh

From Weird to Wonderful

Bibliographic Data

ID5934334
AuthorsSalah Addin Lekkeh (Hope Revival Organization, 27090 Gaziantep, Turkey), Salah Lekkeh (0009-0005-6624-0001), Omar Faruk (0000-0003-0275-5426), Md Omar Faruk (0000-0001-6401-3861, University of Dhaka, corresponding author), Sabiha Jahan (University of Dhaka), Ammar Beetar (Hope Revival Organization, 27090 Gaziantep, Turkey), Gökçe Kurt (0000-0001-7820-1230, UNSW Sydney), Ruth Wells (0000-0003-2408-095X, UNSW Sydney), Scarlett Wong (0009-0008-3039-3593, UNSW Sydney)
Year2023
Volume12
Issue3
Pages170
Publication date2023-03-13
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial Sciences (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2076-0760 • E-ISSN: 2076-0760
PublisherMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/socsci12030170
OpenAlexW4324056818
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited30

Background: Clinical supervision in providing mental health and psychosocial support services (MHPSSs) is an ethical imperative and a key to ensuring quality of care in terms of service users' skills enhancement, well-being, and satisfaction. However, humanitarian contexts in low-resource countries usually lack sufficient infrastructures to ensure staff have access to supervision. Against this backdrop, a pilot supervision program was introduced in Bangladesh and Syria to help MHPSS staff provide quality care. However, supervision provided by experts unfamiliar with these contexts decontextualizes the supervision process and hinders cultural relevance. The aim of this paper is to present a decolonial model of supervision called "WONDERFUL Supervision". Methods: We provided fortnightly online supervision to a total of 32 MHPSS practitioners (seven in Bangladesh and twenty-five in Syria) working in humanitarian contexts in Bangladesh and Syria as well as their surrounding countries (such as Türkiye) between 2019 and 2021.The issues talked about were the skills needed for the practitioners to provide optimal levels of service, manage staff burnout, and present cases. Focus group discussions and reflective discussions included 19 participants, involving both practitioners and supervisors across sites. Results: Despite some notable effects, the supervision was obstructed due to being decontextualized, such as the supervisors not having adequate knowledge about the contexts and culture of beneficiaries, a perceived feeling of power imbalance, practitioners having limited access to resources (e.g., internet connection and technical support), and different time zones. This defect paves the way for a new mode of supervision, WONDERFUL, which takes into account contextual factors and other sociocultural aspects. Conclusions: WONDERFUL supervision has the potential to indigenize the concept of clinical supervision and thereby more sustainably and effectively ensure quality mental health care in resource-limited countries, especially in humanitarian contexts

Business · Clinical supervision · Facilitator · Feeling · Medical education · Political science · Psychosocial · Public relations · Service (business · Counseling Practices and Supervision · Medicine · Mental Health Treatment and Access · Migration, Health and Trauma · Nursing · Psychology · Social Psychology

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