Supervisor competence and supervisor development: A tool for evaluation

Models of supervisor development are briefly described and discussed. Only one scale of supervisor development has been published, focusing on identification with and commitment to the role of supervisor, rather than on the tasks of supervision. An alternative to a developmental model is models describing increasing competence in handling the tasks of supervision. Such models tend to ignore an important theme - the developing supervisor's critical reflections upon his own function. In the scale of supervisor competence presented in this article, we have included items concerning focus of supervision, attitudes towards different tasks, emotional reactions related to be a supervisor and familiarity with different methods and formats of supervision. The main purpose of the scale is to give the supervisor in training feedback on his own function, not to measure the level of competence.