SuperAssist: an app to help mental health providers give better care and feel less burned out

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What this research studies

From a patient’s view, researchers are developing a SuperAssist app that guides supervisors in using client-centered supervision with frontline mental health providers. The team will co-design the app and a training manual with providers and supervisors at community mental health organizations. Twenty provider–supervisor pairs will beta-test the app for six months and give feedback through surveys and interviews. The researchers will use that feedback to refine the app and explore whether supervision and provider wellbeing and skills improve.

Why it matters

Where this research is happening

• Indiana University Indianapolis
  Indianapolis, United States Active

Researchers

• Principal investigator: Fukui, Sadaaki — Indiana University Indianapolis
• Study coordinator: Fukui, Sadaaki

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About this research

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