How to Use This Guide to Benefit Your Agency

This guide shows how to implement the statements in a supervision setting while cultivating a productive working alliance with people on supervision. Below we show how the guide is organized.

Section I: How to Use the Appropriate Statements to Develop Practice Guidelines

• A step-by-step guide to using the appropriateness statements to create a more structured, agency-specific resource for standardizing practice
• Use this resource to translate the appropriateness statements into practice by developing Practice Guidelines
  • These should be unique to your agency and informed by your own culture and existing practices

Section II: Implementing Appropriateness Statements

• Addresses potential challenges when implementing appropriateness statements and using them to craft Practice Guidelines
  • Implementation challenges can make it more difficult to translate appropriateness statements into ground-level practice
  • Consult this section for practical guidance to proactively address these challenges
• Refer to this section for general guidance; for practice specific guidance, see the introduction to each type of practice (e.g., contacts, motivational techniques, etc.)

Section III: Building the Working Alliance

• Details the importance of building a productive working alliance between officers and individuals on supervision
  • Working alliance is the positive working relationship between officers and clients
  • It has been shown to promote compliance with supervision conditions and positive supervision and quality-of-life outcomes
• Use this resource to learn how to use different supervision practices in a way that promotes positive relationships

Section IV: Appropriateness Statements

• Twenty statements on common supervision practices
  • Organized by type of practice (e.g., contacts, treatments, motivational techniques, etc.)
• Consult the appropriateness statements to learn more about the supervision practices you commonly use