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<strong>Clinical</strong> <strong>Supervision</strong> <strong>Handbook</strong><br />

how the clinical supervisor’s responses were similar and different to those of the<br />

clinician. The clinician is present during the interview between the client and the<br />

clinical supervisor and the debriefing is an opportunity for the clinician to compare<br />

what the clinical supervisor did with what the clinician would have done if he or<br />

she were conducting the interview.<br />

Reflecting Mirrors<br />

In the reflecting mirrors technique, the clinical supervisor is in a room with the<br />

client. The clinician sits outside of the room, looking through a reflecting mirror.<br />

The process is the same in terms of how the interview is set up—purpose, goals,<br />

process, debriefing. The supervisor and clinician roles can be reversed, with the<br />

clinical supervisor observing the clinician interview the client.<br />

CASE EXAMPLE: DEMONSTRATION<br />

Both the Keeping Safe and Enhancing Women’s Well Being<br />

groups are co-facilitated with a member of staff or a student as a<br />

way of modelling how to run the group. The clinical supervisor<br />

shows them how to:<br />

• help the group establish norms<br />

• review the content of the handouts in a way that respects the<br />

needs that the clients bring forward in the sessions<br />

• manage conflict within the sessions<br />

• ensure there is a balanced opportunity for clients who tend to be<br />

silent and for those who are more outspoken to share the floor<br />

• elicit opportunities for clients to hear the commonality of experience<br />

and learn that they have something to offer one another<br />

• demonstrate respect for the clinician/student co-facilitator by<br />

verbally underlining meaningful interventions that she or he<br />

makes and returning to them if they get lost in the session.<br />

CASE EXAMPLE: ONE-WAY MIRRORS<br />

For the Enhancing Women’s Well Being Group, the clinical supervisor<br />

facilitates the sessions with a graduate student in a room<br />

that has a one-way mirror. While this method is used for student<br />

learning, it can also be used for staff development. Other students<br />

and staff are invited to observe. They are given a sheet of<br />

paper with specific questions to reflect on as they watch the<br />

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