Introduction
Home visiting programs widely recognize reflective supervision as a promising form of professional development, yet supervisors lack a common definition and framework to apply it in daily practice.
The Supporting and Strengthening the Home Visiting Workforce project seeks to understand reflective supervision in the home visiting context: how it should be defined, measured, and bolstered to improve staff, program, and family outcomes.
Purpose
This brief describes the use of concept mapping to engage individuals with lived experience in developing a measure of reflective supervision. It summarizes concept mapping and its key steps and presents selected results. It then provides lessons learned and considerations for others interested in using concept mapping to engage individuals with lived experience.
Individuals with lived experience can provide essential input into programs, policies, and research, ensuring that they are relevant, practical, and useful. This experience can be personal or professional, coming from caregivers and families or their service providers.
Key Findings and Highlights
The brief details four concept mapping steps:
- Preparation
- Structuring
- Analysis
- Interpretation
Lessons learned and considerations for using concept mapping to engage individuals with lived experience are provided for each step.
Methods
The information presented in the brief stems from a three-phase process to develop and test a measure of reflective supervision for the home visiting context: conceptualization, operationalization, and pilot testing. The brief illustrates use of concept mapping in the first phase, conceptualization.