What is the Difference Between Various Types of Supervisors?

This article will review the distinction between direct, indirect, and non-direct supervisors, and assessors.

Often in clinical practice, behavior technicians are supported by multiple different individuals. That is, in addition to a direct supervisor, they may also have others who should be able to observe their behavior. 

• An indirect supervisor is anyone who supports the direct supervisor (e.g., a clinical supervisor). 
• A non-direct supervisor is anyone at the organization who may observe sessions, complete assessments, or assign tasks to individuals (e.g., training director).
• An assessor has the ability to create an observation or assessment for those they have a supervisory relationship with. When viewing the observation or assessment data they will only see those they completed. This allows for users who are learning to be supervisors to work in the system as one, without seeing all data for those they have a supervisory relationship with.

Below is a list of activities that each type of supervisor can perform in BSTperform. 

*Note, there can only be one direct supervisor for each user. However, there can be an unlimited number of indirect, nondirect, and assessors. 

Direct supervisors can view all observations and assessments that are completed for their supervisees. Indirect, nondirect, and assessors can only see the evaluations that they have done.