Abstracts

Clinical Supervision is a proven key practice for supporting the mental health of all workers in all disciplines. For workers to thrive and contribute meaningfully in there roles, Clinical Supervision is proven to be an effective practice that prevents burnout.

ACSA 2025 ‘Celebrating the Momentum’ will focus on the impacts created by Clinical Supervision across a broad range of industries, and provide pathways for the use of this essential practice. The conference aims to provide:

• An opportunity to showcase the passion and energy currently in Clinical Supervision in Australia.
• Showcase the various Clinical Supervision frameworks across Australia and talk with their key contributors
• Explore the achievements and learnings there are to share in Clinical Supervision
• Discuss the current state of play in research in Clinical Supervision.
• Demonstrate and explore how we engage a growing interest from a wide variety of disciplines and the experience of people in private practice
• Harness the momentum and influence of Clinical Supervision moving forward

Come and join us in the warm tropics for a celebration of clinical supervision and take home some energy to continue the momentum.

For any queries, please email conference@clinicalsupervision.org.au
View information on the conference at: https://clinicalsupervision.org.au/

Target Audience:
In order to attract delegates and presenters to the conference, we aim to deliver the current state of play in all facets of Clinical Supervision. Much has been achieved in implementing Clinical Supervision Programs with the conference providing a platform to share experience, key learnings and outcomes. Research, lived experience of Clinical Supervision and Private Practice are all contemporary themes of interest to potential delegates. 

We encourage submissions from authors in any practice area that currently utilises, or is working towards the use of Clinical Supervision as part of safe practice standards.

The target audience includes:

• All health professionals
• Mental health nurses working in clinical, educational, leadership and research areas
• Midwives, Nurse Practitioners, Registered Nurses, Enrolled Nurses
• Allied Health Clinicians working in health, education, corrections, leadership and research areas
• Key stakeholders in the Clinical Supervision sphere including policy makers and influential leaders in the development of frameworks and implementation of projects
• First Responders and Emergency Services including police, ambulance, fire services
• Members of the religious community
• Education professionals including teachers, wellbeing officers and leadership
• People supporting staff in aged care and NDIS

Types of Presentations

We offer the standard fare for conference presentations, but we will happily consider any original or innovative mode of presentation. For instance, you might care to lead a panel discussion in an area that is important to you. We are also interested in hearing of supervisors’ and supervisees’ lived experience of clinical supervision, as well as individual 5-10 minutes reports of what is happening in their area on clinical supervision.

• Oral presentation during a concurrent session (15 minutes plus 5 minutes question time or 25 minutes plus 5 minutes question time – the length of presentation is at the discretion of the Organising Committee)
• Workshops and master classes of up to two-hours in length (we will consider three-hour and one-hour workshops as well).
• Poster presentations of A0 size (1189mm high x 841mm wide. Presenters will be required to attend in person to present their work during lunch break.

You will need to nominate which mode of presentation you wish to submit in your abstract. The Organising Committee and Peer Review Assessment panel reserve the right to offer you an alternative mode if that is needed to suit the program and the number of submissions, or to accommodate your ideas optimally.