Interprofessional supervision from the perspectives of both mental health nurses and other professionals in the field of cognitive behavioural psychotherapy

This study reports on an open-ended qualitative survey to describe interprofessional supervision within a sample of 170 randomly recruited accredited cognitive behavioural psychotherapists, the majority of whom are mental health nurses. Interdisciplinary supervision was found to be very common and creating some rich opportunities for learning and practice development. A number of interprofessional difficulties were also found to be occurring for a variety of reasons, which are described. Recommendations are made as to how these problems can be overcome.