Assessing Psychology Practitioner Competence

Project outcomes have been disseminated in a number of scientific journals, and at multiple national and international conferences, and workshops as indicated below.

• Project Reports
• Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
• Awards
• Conferences and Workshops

Project Reports

Gonsalvez, C.J., Terry, J., Deane, F. P. (2016). Using standardised vignettes to assess practicum competencies in psychology and other disciplines. Final Report(opens in a new window). Canberra: Department of Education and Training. ISBN 978-1-76051-008-4

Gonsalvez, C.J. (2012). The vignette-matching procedure: An innovative approach to assess competencies in psychology and clinical practicum. Final report(opens in a new window). Sydney: Australian Learning and Teaching Council. ISBN 978 1 921916 59 5.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

• Gonsalvez, C. J., Wahnoon, T., & Deane, F.P. (2017). Goal-setting, Feedback, and Assessment Practices Reported by Australian Clinical Supervisors(opens in a new window). Australian Psychologist, 52, 21-30. doi: 10.1111/ap.12175
• Gonsalvez, C. J., Deane, F. P., & O'Donovan, A. (2017). Introduction to the Special Issue Recent Developments in Professional Supervision: Challenges and Practice Implications.(opens in a new window) Australian Psychologist, 52(2), 83–85. doi:10.1111/ap.12276
• Gonsalvez, C. J., Hamid, G., Savage, N. M., & Livni, D. (2017). The Supervision Evaluation and Supervisory Competence Scale: Psychometric Validation(opens in a new window). Australian Psychologist, 52(2), 94–103. doi:10.1111/ap.12269
• Morris, E. M. J., & Bilich-Eric, L. (2017). A Framework to Support Experiential Learning and Psychological Flexibility in Supervision: SHAPE(opens in a new window). Australian Psychologist, 52(2), 104–113. doi:10.1111/ap.12267
• Nicholson Perry, K., Donovan, M., Knight, R., & Shires, A. (2017). Addressing Professional Competency Problems in Clinical Psychology Trainees(opens in a new window). Australian Psychologist, 52(2), 121–129. doi:10.1111/ap.12268
• Shires, A., Vrklevski, L., Hyde, J., Bliokas, V., & Simmons, A. (2017). Barriers to provision of external clinical psychology student placements(opens in a new window). Australian Psychologist, 52(2), 140–148. doi:10.1111/ap.12254
• Terry, J., Gonsalvez, C., & Deane, F. P. (2017). Brief Online Training with Standardised Vignettes Reduces Inflated Supervisor Ratings of Trainee Practitioner Competencies(opens in a new window). Australian Psychologist, 52(2), 130-139. doi:10.1111/ap.12250
• Gonsalvez, C.J., Deane, F.P., Blackman, R., Matthias, M., Knight, R., Nasstasia, Y.,  Shires, A., Nicholson Perry, K., Allan, C., Bliokas, V. (2015). The hierarchical clustering of clinical psychology practicum competencies: A multisite study of supervisor ratings(opens in a new window). Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice. 22, 390-403. doi: 10.1111/cpsp.12123
• Deane, F. P., Gonsalvez, C., Blackman, R., Saffioti, D. and Andresen, R. (2015). Issues in the Development of e-supervision in Professional Psychology: A Review(opens in a new window). Australian Psychologist, 50(3); 241–247. doi: 10.1111/ap.12107
• Hill, H., Crowe, T., & Gonsalvez, C.J. (2015). Reflective dialogue in clinical supervision: A pilot study involving collaborative review of supervision videos(opens in a new window). Psychotherapy Research. DOI:10.1080/10503307.2014.996795
• Gonsalvez, C.J., Deane, F.P., Caputi, P. (2015). Consistency of supervisor and peer ratings of assessment interviews conducted by psychology trainees(opens in a new window). British Journal of Guidance and Counselling. DOI: 10.1080/03069885.2015.1068927
• Gonsalvez, C.J., & Crowe, T. (2014). Evaluation of Psychology Practitioner Competence in Clinical Supervision(opens in a new window). American Journal of Psychotherapy, 68(2), 177-93.
• Bushnell JA, Gonsalvez CG, Blackman R, Deane F, Bliokas V, Nicholson-Perry K, Shires A, Nasstasia Y, Allan C, and Knight R, (2013) . Assessing ourselves: Is the assessment of performance in Clinical Psychology field placements due to biased raters or defective rating instruments?(opens in a new window) Journal of the New Zealand College of Clinical Psychologists 23(3), 1-9.
• Gonsalvez, C. J., et al. (2013). Assessment of psychology competencies in field placements: Standardized vignettes reduce rater bias(opens in a new window). Training and Education in Professional Practice, 7, 99-111.
• Gonsalvez, C. J., & Freestone, J. (2007). Field supervisors' assessments of trainee performance: Are they reliable and valid?(opens in a new window) Australian Psychologist, 42, 23-32.

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Conferences and Workshops

• Gonsalvez, C. (2019). Ten Key Domains That Constitute Practitioner Competence:  An Empirical Cluster Analytic Solution and its Implications for Training and Supervision. Association of Psychology Training Clinics (APTC), Charleston, USA (March 2019).
• Gonsalvez, C. (2019). Recent Insights into Competency-Based Assessment & Evaluation:
  Advancing Clinical Supervision. Conference on Clinical Supervision, Los Angeles, USA (March 2019).
• Richardson, G. & McLeod, H. (2018). Assessing Clinical Competence with a Computerised Vignette Matching Tasks: A comparison of Trainees in the UK & Australia.(opens in a new window) Group of Trainers in Clinical Psychology Conference (GTiPC), Glasgow, UK (November 2018).
• Gonsalvez, C., Gooi, C., Shires, A., & Deane, F. (2018).  Innovations in Competence Assessment: The Vignette-Matching Assessment Tool: Presentation 1. Panel discussion at the International Congress of Psychology Training Clinics, Annual Meeting of the Association of Psychology Training Clinics (APTC), Hawaii (March 2018).
• Shires, A., Gonsalvez, C., Gooi, C., & Terry, J. (2018).  Innovations in Competence Assessment: The Vignette-Matching Assessment Tool: Presentation 2. Panel discussion at the International Congress of Psychology Training Clinics, Annual Meeting of the Association of Psychology Training Clinics (APTC), Hawaii (March 2018).
• Gonsalvez, C.J. (2017). Assessment of supervisee competence by supervisors: Progress, pitfalls and promises.(opens in a new window) Invited keynote presentation at the 13th International Interdisciplinary Clinical Supervision Conference at New York, June 14-16, 2017
• Gonsalvez, C. J. (2017). Using the CΨPRS to identify students with competence problems: Problems, solutions and future directions.(opens in a new window) Paper presented at the Queensland Health & University Forum, Brisbane, September 28, 2017
• Gonsalvez, C.J., Deane, FD, Knight, R., Nasstasia, Y., Gooi, C., Shires, A., Nicholson Perry, K., Donovan, M., Bartik, W., Billich-Eric, L. (2017). Key findings from a multisite project on competence assessment.(opens in a new window) Paper presented at the Clinical Psychology Course Directors Forum, Brisbane, June 2017.
• Gonsalvez, C.J., Blackman, R., Deane, FD, Donovan, M., Gooi, C., Knight, R., Nasstasia, Y., Nicholson, L., Nicholson Perry, K., Shires, A., Bartik, W., (2017). Assessment of Practicum competencies in Clinical Psychology: Key findings and Future Directions. Australian and New Zealand Psychology Training Clinic Directors Conference (Oct 2017).
• Assessing Clinical Psychology Practicum Competencies: Tools and Techniques for Supervisors(opens in a new window) (2016). Supervisor Workshops presented by Donovan, M., Brisbane QLD (April 2016), & Nicholson Perry, K.,  Melbourne VIC (May 2016).
• Donovan, M., Nicholson Perry, K., Knight, R., & Shires, A. (2016). Trainees with professional competence problems(opens in a new window), Clinical Psychology Programs Placement Coordinators Meeting, Melbourne, June.
• Gonsalvez, C. (2016). Innovations in the assessment of practicum competencies: The use of standardised vignettes, Twelfth International Interdisciplinary Conference on Clinical Supervision, Garden City, New York, June.
• Deane, F. P., Gonsalvez, C., Terry, J., & Blackman, R. (2016). Development and acceptability of a vignette-matching procedure to assess clinical psychology trainees' competencies in field placements(opens in a new window) 31st International Congress of Psychology, Yokohama, Japan, July.
• Richardson, G. (2015), Trainers in Clinical Psychology Annual Conference, Nottingham, UK, November.
• Gonsalvez, C.J., Deane, F.P., Terry, J., & Middleton, J (2015, October). Critical issues in the measurement of psychologist practitioners' competencies, 50th Australian Psychological Society Annual Conference, Gold Coast, QLD.
• Knight, R. (2015, October). Assessment of underperforming provisional psychologists in Clinical Masters programs(opens in a new window), 50th Australian Psychological Society Annual Conference, Gold Coast, QLD.
• Middleton, J., Ratajec, H. E., Blackman, R., Nasstasia, Y., Knight. R., & Gonsalvez, C.J,. (2015, October). The organisation of clinical psychology competencies into clusters, 50th Australian Psychological Society Annual Conference, Gold Coast, QLD.
• Terry, J., Shires, A., Nicholson Perry, K., Ratajec, H.E. (2015, October). Developmental trajectory of clinical psychology competencies across domains(opens in a new window), 50th Australian Psychological Society Annual Conference, Gold Coast, QLD.
• Bushnell, J.A., et al. (2015, March) Is the Vignette Matching Task a way to get less biased supervisor assessments of student performance?(opens in a new window) Annual Conference of the New Zealand College of Clinical Psychologists, Auckland.
• Shires, A., (2015, April). Using Standardised Vignettes to Assess Practicum Competencies in Psychology and Other Disciplines(opens in a new window), Why Health Matters: Bench to Bedside and Beyond UTS Research Symposium, UTS.
• McLeod, H. J., and Richardson, G. (2015) Using Standardised Vignettes to Assess Practicum Competencies in Psychology and other Disciplines(opens in a new window), Supervisor Orientation, University of Glasgow, Scotland.
• Gonsalvez C.J., et al. (2014, December) Innovations in the assessment of practicum competencies: Designing for Learning Showcase , UWS, Sydney.
• Gonsalvez C.J., et al. (2014, December) Assessment of Clinical Psychology Practicum Competencies. Challenges and Innovations, Advances in Clinical & Health Psychology at the Clinical and Health Psychology Research Initiative (CaPHRI), UWS, Sydney.
• McLeod, H. J., and Richardson, G. (2014, November). Assessing clinical competence using vignette matching procedures. (opens in a new window) Paper presented at the Group of Trainers in Clinical Psychology (GTiCP) Conference, Belfast, UK.
• Bushnell JA, Gonsalvez CG, Blackman R, Deane F, Bliokas V, Nicholson-Perry K, Shires A, Nasstasia Y, Allan C, and Knight R. (2013, April). Crumbling in the cornerstones of clinical psychology? Bias in practice-based assessments of student competencies(opens in a new window). Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the New Zealand College of Clinical Psychologists, Dunedin, NZ.
• Gonsalvez, C.J., Knight, R., Nicholson Perry, K., Shires, A., Allan, C., Blackman, R., Bushnell, J., Hyde, J., & Nasstasia, Y. (2011, May). Rating clinical competencies in externships. Can we enhance training outcomes? (opens in a new window)Paper presented at the Clinical Psychology Curriculum Conference, Brisbane, QLD.
• Gonsalvez, C.J., Shires, A., Allan, C., Knight, R., Nicholson Perry, K., Blackman, R., Webster ,R., Bushnell, J., Hyde, J., & Nasstasia, Y. (2011, June). A multi-site study on the assessment of clinical psychology competencies by field supervisors: Should vignettes replace rating scales? (opens in a new window)Paper presented at the Seventh International Interdisciplinary Conference on Clinical Supervision, Adelphi University, New York.
• Gonsalvez, CJ, Bushnell, J, Blackman, R, Nasstasia, Y, Nicholson Perry, K, Allan, C, Knight, R, Shires, A, & Hyde, J (2011, October). The use of vignettes to capture clinical psychology practicum competencies: vignette standardization and preliminary results. (opens in a new window)Paper presented a the Australian Technology Network of Universities Conference. Curtin University, Perth, WA.
• Bushnell, J, Nicholson Perry, K, Blackman, R, Allan, C, Nasstasia, Y, Knight, R, Shires, A, Deane, F, Bliokis, V, & Gonsalvez, CJ (2011, October). Where Angels fear to tread: leniency and halo effects in practicum-based assessment of student competencies. (opens in a new window)Paper presented at the Australian Technology Network of Universities Conference. Curtin University, Perth, WA.
• Gonsalvez, C.J., Knight, R., Nicholson Perry, K., Shires, A., Allan, C., Blackman, R., Bushnell, J., Hyde, J. & Nasstasia, Y. (2011, June). The Vignette Project: An Innovative Method To Assess Practicum Competencies. (opens in a new window)Paper presented at a Clinical Psychology Workshop, Field Supervisors' Assessment of Trainee Competence in Clinical Psychology: Evidence and Practice. Carleton Clinic, Cumbria, National Health Service, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK, 13 June 2011.
• Gonsalvez, C.J., et al. (2011). The vignette procedure as an instrument of competency measurement: preliminary results and future directions. (opens in a new window)Invited presentation at the Annual Psychology Clinic Directors Conference, Auckland, New Zealand, 25-26 November 2011.