Peer supervision is a key component of good professional self-care. Benefits of connecting with peers can include everything from a simple increase in access to collaborative case review, to  complex intellectual exercise as we learn from others and from their clinical experience. Peer supervision and discussion provides opportunities to develop self-assessment skills, allows colleagues to “fill in” the gaps of our individual knowledge and understanding, and it offers interdisciplinary perspectives and opportunities to learn from related areas of study.

We all benefit when we combine social workers, occupational therapists, LMFTs, nurses, psychologists and more, all in the same case review and discussion. Our perspective is broadened, which in turn broadens how we can think about our clients and develop a treatment plan for them.

Interdisciplinary professional peer discussion improves the quality of care we give our clients.