One State's Journey With a Reflective Supervision Professional Development Series: Development, Implementation, and Adaptation.

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• Alternative Title:
  Infant Mental Health Journal, 2025, v. 46, no. 3: One State's Journey With a Reflective Supervision Professional Development Series: Development, Implementation, and Adaptation.
• Journal Article:
  Infant Mental Health Journal
• Personal Author:
  Silver, Rebecca B. ; Low, Christine M. ; Huffhines, Lindsay ; Newland, Rebecca ; Herman, Rachel ; Parade, Stephanie H.
• Description:
  Reflective supervision (RS) has been viewed as best practice and is therefore incorporated-and often mandated-as a key feature of many relationship-based infant and early childhood serving programs. To promote the implementation of high-quality RS for infant and early childhood professionals, it is critical that a focus is placed on how infant and early childhood professionals are trained to build RS capacities. To this end, we describe Rhode Island, United States's journey developing, implementing, and iteratively adapting an RS professional development series. We describe the structure of the curricula as well as the content and learning objectives, which strive to bridge the gap between the theoretical concepts foundational to RS, process-oriented self-reflection, and the practical application of RS skills and strategies. We also outline the development and process of iterative adaptation that has refined the curricula over the past decade. Finally, we chronicle the history of coordination and collaboration that promoted the development and implementation of this series, which has been disseminated within home visiting and early care and education settings. This narrative can serve as a model for organizations, systems, and states that are undertaking efforts to provide professional development focused on RS.
• Content Notes:
  Author manuscript
• Subjects:
  • Humans
  • Curriculum
  • Infant
  • Staff Development
  • Program Development
  • Child, Preschool
• Keywords:
  • reflective supervision
  • reflective practice
  • home visiting
  • early care and education
  • implementation
• Source:
  Infant Mental Health Journal, 2025, v. 46, no. 3
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.1002/imhj.22165
• ISSN:
  0163-9641 ; 1097-0355
• Pubmed ID:
  39875348
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC12048261
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  K23HD107243/Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development/ ; R01 CE003103/CE/NCIPC CDC HHSUnited States/ ; HRSA/HRSA HHSUnited States/ ; American Rescue Plan Act ARPA/ ; K23 HD107243/HD/NICHD NIH HHSUnited States/ ; R01CE003103/CC/CDC HHSUnited States/ ; 90TP0027/Preschool Development Grant Birth through Five Initiative/ ; Child Care Development Block Grant/
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Rhode Island
• Pages in Document:
  328-342 (27 pdf pages)
• Volume:
  46
• Issue:
  3
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/261728/cdc_261728_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 781.56 KB]
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:fef68e3000d4a45745c5fffd16c4cb6d1995a6494815e3deb3232aec521e2d6a2db433fd64381dc7ff242846d0ac256dbbdf02706c032259e32c98af999184b2