Supervision Issues Research Articles

Revealing the Unknown: Supervisors’ Perspectives on Using Creative Techniques in Supervision

ABSTRACT Traditionally, psychotherapy supervision takes place as a conversation between the supervisor and a supervisee, but it has been argued that using an array of creative techniques can enhance the supervisory process. However, there has been limited empirical research in this area. This study explored the perspectives of supervisors when using creative techniques in psychotherapy supervision. Using grounded theory procedures, 13 experienced psychotherapy supervisors were interviewed in the United Kingdom and Ireland, and “Attaining Sight” of the supervision issue emerged as a main concern for supervisors. “Revealing the Unknown” was the framework that explained how participants dealt with this concern by using creative techniques in supervision. When the supervision issue was seen more clearly, it helped supervisors cope with their own discomfort and foster a more favorable supervisory encounter. In this article, the implications of using creative techniques in supervision are discussed.

Punish or reward? How to strengthen supervision of nucleic acid testing

PurposeNucleic acid testing is an effective method of accurate prevention and control and a key measure to block the spread of the epidemic. However, the fraud in nucleic acid testing occurred frequently during epidemics. This paper aims to provide a viable scheme for the government to strengthen the supervision of nucleic acid testing and to provide a new condition for the punishment for the negative act of the government and the upper limit of the reward for nucleic acid testing institution of no data fraud.Design/methodology/approachThis paper formulates an evolutionary game model between the government and nucleic acid testing institution under four different mechanisms of reward and punishment to solve the issue of nucleic acid testing supervision. The authors discuss the stability of equilibrium points under the four distinct strategies and conduct simulation experiments.FindingsThe authors find that the strategy of dynamic reward and static penalty outperforms the strategies of static reward and static penalty, dynamic reward and static penalty, static reward and dynamic penalty, dynamic reward and dynamic penalty. The results reveal the appropriate punishment for the negative act of the government can enhance the positivity of the government's supervision in the strategy of dynamic reward and static penalty, while the upper limit of the reward for nucleic acid testing institution of no data fraud cannot be too high. Otherwise, it will backfire. Another interesting and counterintuitive result is that in the strategy of dynamic reward and dynamic penalty, the upper limit of the penalty for data fraud of nucleic acid testing institution cannot be augmented recklessly. Otherwise, it will diminish the government's positivity for supervision.Originality/valueMost of the existing evolutionary game researches related to the reward and punishment mechanism and data fraud merely highlight that increasing the intensity of reward and punishment can help improve the government's supervision initiative and can minimize data fraud of nucleic acid institution, but they fall short of the boundary conditions for the punishment and reward mechanism. Previous literature only study the supervision of nucleic acid testing qualitatively and lacks quantitative research. Moreover, they do not depict the problem scenario of testing data fraud of nucleic acid institution regulated by the government via the evolutionary game model. Thus, this study effectively bridges these gaps. This research is universal and can be extended to other industries.

SKUTECZNOŚĆ NADZORU NAD WYKORZYSTANIEM MAJĄTKU SPÓŁEK KOMUNALNYCH W POLSCE

The article focuses on the issues of supervision over the disbursement of assets of municipal companies under Polish law. The authors discussed basic issues related to the system of municipal companies and presented the results of the research consisting in collecting and analyzing the reports of the Supreme Audit Office on the functioning of Polish municipal companies. Three categories of irregularities related to the supervision of the use of the property of municipal companies were distinguished: in the field of providing financial support to municipal companies, in the field of compliance with statutory restrictions on conducting business activity by municipal companies, and in the field of exercising ownership supervision over these companies. De lege ferenda conclusions were also offered in the scope of legal provisions requiring amendment due to too much freedom of interpretation.

"The VA was the first place as a trainee that I felt like I had to hide many parts of myself": Lived experiences and recommendations for empowering transgender, nonbinary, and gender expansive VA psychology supervisors and supervisees.

Psychology trainees are increasingly diverse in terms of gender identity and gender expression (Lund & Thomas, 2022), yet clinical supervision models often overlook the unique needs, strengths, and experiences of transgender, nonbinary, and gender expansive (TNBGE) trainees and supervisors. The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) remains the largest training network for psychology trainees and many American Psychological Association-accredited VA sites advertise focused training opportunities in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer health at both the internship and postdoctoral levels. As such, VA psychology training programs are uniquely positioned to impact the professional experiences of TNBGE psychology trainees and supervisors. Critical issues in supervision with TNBGE supervisees and supervisors in VA health care settings are reviewed utilizing themes and examples from the authors' lived experiences as TNBGE supervisors and supervisees. Recommendations are provided for supervisees, supervisors, and training directors in VA psychology training programs. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).

Common Mistakes Committed and Challenges Faced in Research Proposal Writing by University of Aden Postgraduate Students

The purpose of this study is to investigate the common mistakes committed by the postgraduate students as well as the challenges they faced during writing their proposals. The study obtained a convince sampling in which 15 postgraduate students of English Department, University of Aden were recruited. In this study, the data was collected by using the students' proposals, and their correction forms, as well as using focused group discussion. The researcher analyzed the data and used qualitative analyses i.e., content-based analyses by highlighting the main themes. The findings of the study indicated that the majority of the postgraduate students committed common mistakes such as the choice of an appropriate title, unclear statement of the problem, writing irrelevant literature review, choosing inappropriate methodology, references system was not clear and some plagiarism issues. Moreover, it was investigated that the postgraduate students generally had some challenges in using standard proposal format, writing literature reviews, methodology skills and other supervision issues. These findings are of great importance for instructors at postgraduate program.

Some Issues of Prosecutorial Supervision in the Field of Forest Legislation Enforcement

Crimes in the field of forest legislation can be multidimensional in nature, including not only the fact of a criminal act (for example, illegal logging), but also the involvement of foreigners who have no right to be on the territory of the Russian Federation and carry out work here as low-paid laborer. In addition, the scale of criminal actions in the field of forest legislation, as a rule, is directly intertwined with the corruption component, when forestry workers contribute to the commission of a crime for paying for their services or non-interference in illegal activities. Since the aggrieved of this crime are usually not individuals, but the interests of society and state, the participation of the prosecutor in overseeing the implementation of forest legislation is of particular importance and is subject to comprehensive analysis and reflection. The normative basis of the study is the Constitution of the Russian Federation, the Criminal Procedure Code of the Russian Federation, the Forest Code of the Russian Federation and the Federal Law “On the Prosecutor’s Office of the Russian Federation”, as well as various by-laws adopted on the basis of this Federal Law. The integrity and completeness of the work is ensured by the use of the dialectical method, system-structural analysis and methods of analysis and synthesis of information from various legal and information sources. The results of the study allow us to determine the role of prosecutorial supervision in the field of forest legislation enforcement.

On quality and complexity: non-conformance failures, management perspectives and learning outcomes on a highways megaproject

PurposeThe construction industry continues to struggle to deliver a right first time culture, seeking a panacea for improvement whilst maintaining project milestones. Complex construction projects demand stringent programmes, however, (un)foreseen changes, political influences and human behaviours all have significant impacts on delivering schemes without error. Previous studies have questioned the ability of the construction industry to successfully learn from errors. A major barrier has been the sharing of sensitive data from failed outcomes. Hence, this paper investigates non-conformance on an existing scheme and suggests avenues for improvement.Design/methodology/approachA mixed-method approach was adopted whereby 1,260 non-conformance reports (NCRs) from a highways megaproject were interrogated using root cause analysis (RCA) techniques to uncover the most frequent and costly areas. This was followed by a survey to industry professionals within a tier 1 principal contractor to gain insight into their perceptions of non-conformance and rework on construction projects.FindingsUsing Pareto analysis, the authors find that materials management, workmanship (poor quality execution) and supervision issues are the most frequently occurring and costly root causes of non-conformance on a major highways scheme. Furthermore, the authors link corresponding viewpoints of two project professional groups to the posed, achieving a high degree of consensus for the areas requiring development. Lastly, the authors suggest avenues for improvement via lessons learnt. These include greater emphasis on quality culture via a strong leadership mandate, enhanced vetting of workforce competence and improving the way materials are managed by embracing technology to drive efficiency.Originality/valueThis paper interrogates a current highways scheme using a uniquely rich, sensitive dataset to determine how the construction sector may improve efforts to achieving right first time outcomes.

Analysis and assessment of risks to public safety from unmanned aerial vehicles using fault tree analysis and Bayesian network

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have become increasingly prevalent in human production and life, but concerns about their impact on public safety have also grown. To address these concerns, this paper presents a hybrid risk identification model that uses fault tree analysis (FTA) and Bayesian network (BN) to analyze critical risks associated with UAVs. First, by analyzing accident reports and existing literature, the fault tree structure of UAV-related public safety accidents is constructed, and initial risk factors are identified. Next, the fault tree is converted into a BN using conversion rules and the conditional probabilities are determined based on logic gates, parameter learning, and expert opinions. The BN model is then validated using actual UAV accident cases. Finally, diagnostic inference and sensitivity analysis are applied to identify key risk factors that impact public safety from UAVs. The results indicate that the primary risk factors leading to public safety incidents involving UAVs are internal system failures (battery failures, mechanical failures, and flight control system failures), pilot factors (unqualified knowledge and skills, weak safety awareness, violations, and lack of legal awareness), external environmental impacts (obstacles, route planning issues, and unclear airspace division), and UAV supervision issues (undefined subject of supervision responsibility, weak laws and regulations, and lack of supervision system). The findings of this study can help policymakers develop effective regulations for UAV operations to improve public safety.

Working Online During the Contemporary COVID-19 Pandemic.

Within the psychoanalytic school there has been substantial and ongoing debate about the efficacy of teleanalysis. However, as a result of the current COVID-19 pandemic and the online work with which the Jungian analytic community has now had to engage, this paper initially focuses on analysts' actual experiences of working by teleanalysis. These experiences highlight a range of issues like "Zoom fatigue", "online disinhibition", dissonance, confidentiality, the frame and working with new patients. Alongside these issues, there were ample experiences by analysts of both productive psychotherapy apace with analytic work involving transference and countertransference phenomena, all indicating that a genuine and good enough analytic process can occur with teleanalysis. An overview of the research and literature both prior to the pandemic and as a result of it, confirms the validity of these experiences so long as analysts are cognizant of the specifics of such an online modality. Conclusions to do with the question, "what have we learned?", alongside training, ethics and supervision issues are subsequently discussed.

Experiencing Feedback Channels during Online Research Supervision: A Perspective by Preclinical Students

Due to the unprecedented faculty closures, the COVID-19 pandemic has rendered online learning as one of the most effective tools for maintaining access to higher education. While there is a growing body of literature investigating the pedagogical aspect of online learning, less attention has been paid to address the issue of online research supervision. This qualitative study investigated preclinical students’ perceptions and experiences of different feedback channels during online research supervision. A total of 113 (n=66 females, n=47 males) preclinical students volunteered for the focus group discussions. The data were analysed using a hybrid inductive and deductive analysis approach. Findings revealed three overarching themes: (1) diversified personal input, (2) responsive to socio-emotional needs, and (3) prompt for actions. These findings showed that preclinical students received various feedback through different channels during their online research supervision. Most importantly, this study indicated that personalising feedback channel within an online research supervision serves as the key in supporting and sustaining preclinical students’ research progress, especially during critical times. The findings of this study can be used as a guide for supervisors who are doing remote online research supervision to focus on personalising feedback channels in response to individual students' learning demands and circumstances.

HOW SINGLE-MEMBER COMPANY IN INDONESIA SHOULD BE REGULATED? (MIXING GIERKE’S THEORY AND ISLAMIC LAW PERSPECTIVE ON LEGAL ENTITY)

The purpose of this study is to evaluate and provide improvements to the regulations governing single-member limited liability companies in Indonesia, related to issues of supervision and restriction using Gierke’s theory and Islamic law perspective on legal entity. This research is structured as a normative legal research using concept, legislation, and comparative approach. The results of the study indicate that there are still shortcomings in terms of supervision and requirements for the establishment of SMLLC in Indonesia both from Gierke’s theory and Islamic law perspective. Thus, the improvements to reporting provisions, the obligation to record all decisions in the minutes, the restrictions on establishment, and the founder requirements are needed.

When the Supervisor Needs a Supervisor: A Case-based Guide for Developing Psychotherapy Supervisors.

Supervision of psychotherapy is recognized as fundamental for attaining competency in psychotherapy. However, there is a lack of training in "best practices" of supervisory skills, and some supervisors may lack contemporary knowledge to support supervisees adequately. Training program leadership challenged by limited time and resources to provide supervisors with the necessary education and support can benefit from additional resources for developing psychotherapy supervisors. The authors present 3 core elements of navigating supervisory challenges: training, open dialogue in supervision, and a formal program-level process. Common issues in psychotherapy supervision are then presented in a case-based format. Reflection questions are included to provide an opportunity to consider a personal approach to the case, while specific guidance based on the literature addresses critical aspects of the case examples. Complex supervisory conflicts can challenge programs, but they are normative to the learning process and promote growth in our supervisors.

A Boundary-Aware Network for Shadow Removal

Shadow removal is a challenging computer vision and multimedia task that aims to restore image content in shadow regions. The state-of-the-art shadow removal methods introduce artifacts near shadow boundaries or inconsistencies between shadow and nonshadow areas, which can be easily noticed by the human eye at first glance. In this paper, we design a boundary-aware shadow removal network (BA-ShadowNet) that improves shadow removal accuracy by increasing the removal performance at shadow boundaries. In contrast with previously developed methods, which usually consider shadow boundary optimization to be a postprocessing technique, our method performs shadow removal and shadow boundary optimization simultaneously. For this purpose, the proposed BA-ShadowNet is designed as a multiscale encoder-decoder structure, where the decoder consists of a shadow removal branch and a shadow optimization branch. An interaction module is then introduced to fuse and exchange the features of the two branches. This module facilitates the removal branch in perceiving the locations and colors of shadow boundaries. Additionally, it optimizes the boundary branch according to the image context extracted from the removal branch. A three-term loss function is further developed to supervise the shadow removal results and to address the issue of imbalanced supervision between shadow boundary pixels and pixels inside shadows. Extensive experiments conducted on the ISTD+ and SRD datasets demonstrate that the proposed BA-ShadowNet greatly outperforms the state-of-the-art methods with respect to shadow removal.

Adjacent Complementary Network for Salient Object Detection in Optical Remote Sensing Images

Salient object detection in optical remote sensing images (RSI-SOD) is a newly developing task and has attracted extensive attention. Although some satisfactory performances have been achieved, there are still some poor performance situations, such as complex backgrounds and objects with various scales. Because the existing methods have the issue of insufficient adjacent feature representation and inappropriate constraint supervision. To alleviate the issues, we attempt to utilize the adjacent complementary and introduce the global constraints. Accordingly, we propose the adjacent complementary network (ACNet) with global constraints for RSI-SOD. Specifically, in the encoder, we mainly design the adjacent complementary module (ACM) to complement the features among the current layer and adjacent layers. Therefore, it can effectively aggregate saliency features. Besides, we have equipped a global average pooling (GAP) to enhance global information. In the decoder, we design a fusion enhancement module (FEM) to enhance the feature conversion between the coding layer and decoding layer. Finally, we employ a novel loss, which introduces global constraints and can supervise the objects with various scales. Extensive studies on two benchmark datasets demonstrate that ACNet is competitive and outperforms the 15 state-of-the-art (SOTA) approaches.

Afterword to "When the Supervisor Needs a Supervisor: A Case-based Guide for Developing Psychotherapy Supervisors".

Supervision of psychotherapy is recognized as fundamental for attaining competency in psychotherapy. However, there is a lack of training in "best practices" of supervisory skills, and some supervisors may lack contemporary knowledge to support supervisees adequately. Training program leadership challenged by limited time and resources to provide supervisors with the necessary education and support can benefit from additional resources for developing psychotherapy supervisors. The authors present 3 core elements of navigating supervisory challenges: training, open dialogue in supervision, and a formal program-level process. Common issues in psychotherapy supervision are then presented in a case-based format. Reflection questions are included to provide an opportunity to consider a personal approach to the case, while specific guidance based on the literature addresses critical aspects of the case examples. Complex supervisory conflicts can challenge programs, but they are normative to the learning process and promote growth in our supervisors.

Problems of judicial control and prosecutor's supervision over the activities of bodies authorized to investigate economic criminal offenses under martial law

Introduction. In 2022, the Ukrainian legislator transformed the national model of judicial control and prosecutor's supervision over compliance laws in criminal proceedings and repeatedly made changes to its procedural mechanism. During the period of martial law, new problems of an organizational and procedural nature arose, in particular, in the field of ensuring compliance legality of the investigation of criminal offenses in the economic sphere. The foregoing predetermines the actuality of the study of these issues in the framework of this paper. The purpose of the paper is a scientific analysis of the problematic issues of judicial control and prosecutor's supervision over the activities of bodies authorized to investigate economic criminal offenses under martial law. Results. The paper drew attention to the fact that in the regions of Ukraine, where a special regime of pre-trial investigation is applied, control powers were significantly redistributed from the investigating judge to the head of the prosecutor's office. Prosecutorial supervision has become the main, dominant mechanism for ensuring compliance with the rule of law, which imposes increased responsibility on the subjects of its realization. In the work, special attention was paid to the study of controversial issues of ensuring compliance legality of temporary access to things and documents and arrest of property, which is due to the mechanism for committing and exposing economic criminal offenses. The latest prosecutorial and judicial practice, doctrinal works of scientists were studied, recommendations were formulated for optimizing control and supervisory activities in this area. Conclusion. In order to improve the mechanism of judicial control and prosecutorial supervision, the necessity of supplementing paragraph 20-7 of Section XI of the Transitional Provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure of Ukraine after the word "head" with the word "body", as well as supplementing part three of Article 174 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of Ukraine with the second paragraph of the following content, was argued: “After issuance of an investigator's decision to terminate criminal proceedings, the arrest of property imposed in accordance with the requirements of this Code is canceled in the manner prescribed by part two of this article”.

COMPARATIVE ASSESSMENT OF SOME MORPHOFUNCTIONAL INDICATORS OF SCHOOLCHILDREN AND YOUNG ATHLETES

The aim of the article is the research and assessment of main indicators of the physical development of schoolchildren and young athletes (wrestling). Theoretical and practical issues of medical supervision of young athletes and schoolchildren are important for maintaining and strengthening health. As a result, it was found that the indicators of physical development and cardiovascular system of young wrestlers exceed the indicators of schoolchildren. Thus, the level of cardiovascular reserve and the adaptive potential of wrestlers (classic style) tend to strain adaptive abilities of the body, particularly the cardiovascular system.

Implementation of the Tourism Park Development Program in Unamendaa Village

This research aims to explore and describe the implementation of the tourism park development program in Unamendaa Village. This research uses an inductive qualitative analysis. Inductive analysis is an approach that begins with field facts, analyzes them based on relevant theories and arguments, and ultimately yields a conclusion. The results show that implementing the Tourism Park development program in Unamendaa Village faces several significant obstacles related to communication, resources, disposition, and bureaucratic structure. Regarding communication, the Village Tourism Park program’s socialization needs to be implemented optimally. Regarding resources, there needs to be more BUMDes Organizers in managing the Village Tourism Park. Concerning disposition, although the Village Government has entrusted development responsibility to BUMDes, there still needs to be clarity in the tax payment mechanism. Additionally, the suboptimal bureaucratic structure adds complexity to the obstacles, including issues of supervision, coordination, facility provision, and communication between the Village Government and the community, which collectively hinder the achievement of the Village Tourism Park development goals. Therefore, it is recommended that the Village Government improve communication effectiveness with the community through increased frequency and more innovative socialization methods to ensure that information about the Village Tourism Park development is evenly distributed to all community members. For BUMDes, it is suggested that resource deficiencies be addressed by training organizers in tourism park management and operations and clarifying the division of responsibilities between organizers and traders to prevent role overlaps. Traders are expected to cooperate more closely with BUMDes Organizers, especially regarding compliance with the established tax payment mechanism. The community is encouraged to actively participate in every process of the Village Tourism Park development, in aspects of planning, execution, and supervision, to create good collaboration between the Village Government, BUMDes, traders, and the community, aiming for the sustainable and beneficial development of the Village Tourism Park for all parties in the future.

VII Всероссийская научно-практическая конференция «Актуальные вопросы контроля и надзора в социально значимых сферах деятельности общества и государства», посвященная 300-летию основания прокуратуры России

The article is devoted to the VII All-Russian Scientific and Practical Conference "Topical issues of control and supervision in socially significant spheres of society's activity, held on June 2-3 at the Lobachevsky National Research Nizhny Novgorod State University

The Intelligence Board of INP and Foreign Journalists’ Supervision Issue in Indonesia

Most likely, some illegal journalists have a mission or goal to seek information about intelligence activities that can damage Indonesia's image in the eyes of the world. Thus, it is necessary to supervise foreigners, especially foreign journalists. One of these supervisions is carried out by the National Police's Intelligence Board. However, the National Police's Intelligence Board does not have a legal instrument that underlies the authority to supervise foreigners, based on Act no. 2 of 2022 concerning the National Police and the need for support in the PORA Team system. This research aimed to determine the role and implement strategic planning for the National Police Agency in overcoming various polemics regarding the supervision of foreign journalists in Indonesia as one of the implementations of strategic intelligence studies. The method used is interpretive qualitative with data collection techniques, documentation, and interviews with selected sources by purposive sampling. The data obtained were then analyzed in depth. The role of The Intelligence Board of Polri in supervising foreign journalists have not been maximized and needs to be optimized to maintain National Security. It is necessary to formulate new regulations and revise regulations on the supervision of foreigners, especially foreign journalists, including the criminal aspects of foreign intelligence activities, coordination, communication, and collaboration between ministries/agencies, and the urgency of making a Perpol for the supervision of foreigners, division of tasks and authorities in the supervision of foreigners to improve the quality of the performance of the National Police The Intelligence Board of in carrying out their work.