From DROSS to STARdom

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From DROSS to STARdom

• Dave Green

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A little history

• It all began in Bury
• DROSS delegates collaborated to produce an agreed
  set of learning objectives for basic supervisor
  training
• Decided that BPS was best placed to recognise
  supervisory competence and establish some
  appropriate award
• Got the support of DCP in this venture

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The Board of Trustees

• So much liked the proposals that they they
  thought all applied psychologists in the Society
  would want to have access to the planned
  supervisor register and instituted a
  cross-divisional working party to explore the
  possibilities
• Oddly BoT did not like DROSS and preferred the
  anodyne STAR

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Cross-divisional negotiations

• Strategy to agreed a simplified set of generic
  learning outcomes to which each division could
  add its own division specific criteria as
  required
• DROSS outcomes painlessly translated into generic
  language
• Became evident in discussions that clinical
  psychology has, by some distance, the best
  established machinery for supervisor training

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Specific Proposals

• Pay 50 to join the scheme for 3 years
• Renewal for same period at same cost conditional
  on evidence of having supervised and undertaken
  relevant CPD
• For first 3 years a regular (ie formal
  training) and grandparenting route will run
  side-by-side but thereafter access to scheme
  only via the regular channel

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Grandparenting

• Designed to encourage early take-up
• Acknowledges that formal supervisor training
  programmes do not yet exist for most applied
  psychologists in the UK
• Just need two professional referees prepared to
  attest that X has supervised for a minimum period
  of one year or 30 hours and possesses the all the
  stipulated generic competences

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DROSS recommendations

• One of the two professional referees should
  usually be a tutor involved in supervisor
  training on a clinical course
• Self-appraisal of supervision competence by the
  applicant with stated CPD goals
• Delay joining scheme until at least 2 years
  qualified (ie eligible to supervise trainees) as
  per EFPA recommendations

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Training implications

• Criteria for accrediting STAR training programmes
  are needed
• Common learning objectives provide an obvious
  basis plus some timely amendments of current CTCP
  criteria
• A lot more for other divisions and training
  programmes to do in the next 3 years when
  grandparenting route closes

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DROSS Proposals

• Achievement of learning outcomes should be
  assessed by explicit evaluation of changes in
  supervisors knowledge (eg using MCQs) and
  behaviour (eg via reflective logs) and by seeking
  structured feedback from supervisees
• Strategies to promote transfer of learning should
  be put in place

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Back to BoT

• In October Board received report from the
  cross-division working party
• Supported its recommendations in full but delayed
  implementation from BPS/PSI conference in April
  2008 until unspecified date in the autumn because
  of uncertainties regarding the future
  responsibilities of the Society and HPC

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What this means for you lot!

• It would not be right to set training standards
  for you that are much more stringent than the
  grandparenting option
• We will see you as assisting in the piloting of
  new ways of evaluating learning on the training
  module
• So failure to complete all course assignments
  will not jeopardise access to the proposed BPS
  supervisors register

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Feedback on submitted work

• No summative judgements will be made this year,
  rather we will provide formative feedback (ie not
  pass/fail)
• LAP pages should be on-line early 2008
• For GAS scales please
• Mark which of outcome categories best describes
  your experience (up to 5 options)
• Add qualitative comments where fitting