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title: How to Use This Guide to Benefit Your Agency
description: "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…"
url: "https://www.gmuace.org/appropriateness-statement-package/introduction/how-to-use-this-guide-to-benefit-your-agency/"
updated: "2023-03-06"
category: Introduction
tags:
  - "How-To"
  - Introduction
---

# 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

 

**Similar Topics**

## [Introduction](https://www.gmuace.org/appropriateness-statement-package/introduction/introduction/)

## [Appropriateness Statement Outline](https://www.gmuace.org/appropriateness-statement-package/introduction/appropriateness-statement-outline/)

## [Section I: How to Use the Appropriateness Statements to Develop Practice Guidelines](https://www.gmuace.org/appropriateness-statement-package/introduction/section-i-how-to-use-the-appropriateness-statements-to-develop-practice-guidelines/)