Join us
To join the Children, Adolescents & Families SIG, please email communications@babcp.com.
Contact us
To contact the SIG committee, please email caf-sig@babcp.com
This SIG aims to co-ordinate the provision of teaching and training events in the area of CBT with children, adolescents and families.
Focus areas
- To ensure the provision of a variety of training events aimed at people with different levels of expertise in CBT with children.
- To encourage an ethos of discussion and sharing of ideas to promote the development of this field.
- To ensure the provision of a wide range of events covering the spectrum of theory, research and clinical techniques and practice.
- To promote accessibility of training events by locating them nationwide.
Links
Royal College of Psychiatrists – Child & Adolescent Mental Health
Improving Supervision In CBT For Young People and Families
Quality supervision is essential for effective therapy, therapist development, and workforce growth. Despite CBT being a key evidence-based intervention in child and adolescent mental health services, many therapists still struggle to access appropriate supervision. Even where available, service structures can sometimes limit best practice.
CAFSIG aims to promote high-quality therapeutic practice, supervision, and research in CBT for children, young people, and families. To support this, we invite BABCP members to help us develop a best practice statement for CBT supervision in this field. This will guide supervisors, therapists, and service managers in enhancing supervision quality, therapist development, and overall service effectiveness.
We propose a framework of four interacting domains that influence supervision quality and its impact on therapy and outcomes:
- Contextual domain – National/local service context, organisational arrangements, and guidelines
- Supervision of supervision – Effective processes, contracting, evaluation, and documentation
- Supervision level – Helpful models, session structure, contracting, and evaluation
- Therapy level – Therapy models, processes, outcome measures, and documentation
We would love to hear from those working with or supervising young people. In this time of significant change in mental health services, what has been most helpful in the supervision you provide or receive? Have there been key developments in outcome monitoring or service transformation?
How for example have these factors affected the quality of supervision and what insights can be usefully be integrated? What models of supervision do you use, what session structure, contracts, etc?
