Hajiaghamohseni Zahra, Drasgow Erik, Wolfe Katie
Department of Educational Studies, University of South Carolina, 235B Wardlaw, 820 Main St., Columbia, SC 29208 USA.
Behav Anal Pract. 2020 Oct 15;14(1):97-109. doi: 10.1007/s40617-020-00492-1. eCollection 2021 Mar.
The field of behavior analysis is growing rapidly, and high-quality supervision is essential to producing thoughtful and effective Board Certified Behavior Analysts. There is little empirical information about the behaviors that supervisors engage in to support trainees in developing critical skills. Therefore, our purpose in this study was to survey supervisors ( = 317) about their supervision practices to better understand how frequently they engage in recommended supervision practices and whether the frequency with which they engage in recommended practices is related to demographic characteristics. Our results suggest that there is wide variability in the extent to which individual supervisors engage in recommended practices, and that supervisors engage in practices more frequently for which there are concrete guidelines and supports in place (e.g., behavioral skills training). We discuss the implications of our results for supporting supervisors to engage in recommended practices and for future research.
行为分析领域正在迅速发展，高质量的督导对于培养有思想、有成效的行为分析师认证委员会认证行为分析师至关重要。关于督导为支持受训人员发展关键技能而采取的行为，几乎没有实证信息。因此，我们开展本研究的目的是对317名督导的督导实践进行调查，以更好地了解他们进行推荐的督导实践的频率，以及他们进行推荐实践的频率是否与人口统计学特征相关。我们的研究结果表明，个体督导在进行推荐实践的程度上存在很大差异，并且督导对于有具体指导方针和支持措施的实践（例如行为技能培训）会更频繁地进行。我们讨论了研究结果对于支持督导进行推荐实践以及未来研究的意义。
