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Peer Professional Employer Toolkit

Supervision Tool: Structured Observation With Skill Counts

This worksheet is from the Peer Professional Employer Toolkit.

Peer professional:

Supervisor:

Date of review:

Instructions: Print this worksheet. Listen carefully to what the peer professional says and does in the practice sample (this can be live observation or audio recorded play back). Count each utterance by placing a hash mark in the appropriate category. Note examples in the space provided.

OARS+I skills

Question: open

  • Tell me...
  • Talk about...
  • Describe...
  • What...
  • How...

Count (hash mark)

 

Example

 

Question: closed

  • Can you…
  • Do you…
  • Have you…
  • Is there…

Count (hash mark)

 

 

Example

 

Affirmation

Specific participant strength identified


 

Count (hash mark)

 

Example

Reflection/summary: simple

  • Repeat
  • Rephrase

     

Count (hash mark)

Example

Reflection/summary: complex

  • Paraphrase
  • Double-sided
  • Feeling
  • Metaphor
  • Coming alongside
  • Continuing paragraph

Count (hash mark)

 

Example

Informing: with permission

Peer professional informs with permission


 

Count (hash mark)

Example

Informing: without permission

Peer professional informs without permission


 

Count (hash mark)

 

Example

 

For guidance on counting and categorizing skills, see Motivational Interviewing Treatment Integrity instrument (version 3.1.1; Moyers et al., 2010) pages 16 to 23. Access from https://motivationalinterviewing.org/sites/default/files/MITI%203.1.pdf (PDF). 

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