Supervision Practice Scenario 2 - Betty

Betty is the first Peer Specialist to be hired at a clinic, which provides medication management and therapy. She received treatment there three years ago, but she has not used clinic services since then. The Clinical Director is skeptical about the value of peer services. She wants to make sure hiring a Peer Specialist won’t end up creating a lot of extra work for everyone else on the team before hiring others. Other members of the clinical staff are having a hard time accepting Betty as a colleague. They fear Betty may relapse or be too “fragile” to handle the stress of the job.

As Betty’s supervisor, what would you do?

• Create a new post with your response to "As the supervisor, I would..." (taking into account what you learned from the course faculty)
  
• Review at least 3 postings from others in the class
  
• Respond to at least 1 posting from someone else in the class with additional thoughts about the posting.