Recruiting

Supervision Strategy

Sponsor:

University of Arkansas

Code:

NCT07262372

Conditions

Self Efficacy

Burnout, Professional

Substance Use Disorders

Supervision

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18+

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Interventions

FOCUS supervision strategy

Study Details

Brief summary:

Substance use disorders such as opioid addiction affect millions of adults in the United States each year, but the delivery of high-quality, effective addiction services is disrupted by organizational issues such as counselor burnout and turnover. Clinical supervisors are essential for supporting counselors in specialty addiction treatment programs, but few supervisors receive supervision-focused training. This project seeks to develop and pilot an evidence-based supervision strategy that has a high potential to enhance supervision and result in improved counselors' well-being and performance and, in turn, to improve client outcomes.

Conditions

Self Efficacy

Burnout, Professional

Substance Use Disorders

Supervision

Study ID

NCT07262372

Start date

Jul 21, 2025

Status verified date

Dec, 2025

Completion date

Jun 30, 2027

Anticipated

Primary completion date

May 31, 2027

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18+

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Serves as a supervisor (i.e., oversee work of counselors) or counselor (i.e., directly work with clients) at a substance use treatment facility/program
  • Program/facility provides residential services

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Supervisors contracted (not employed) by the facility

Study Design

Enrollment

43 participants

Anticipated

Intervention Model

Single group

Primary purpose

Health Services Research

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

experimental: Supervision arm

Supervisors will be trained and coached in a new supervision strategy (FOCUS)

Interventions

FOCUS supervision strategy

The FOCUS supervision strategy provides a strenghts-based model for supervision. It is built around three core components: (1) Five pillars for effective supervision interactions, (2) practical skills that operationalize these principles, and (3) a set of experiential activities that provide foundational learnings for staff to practice the skills around real-life situations (from which future client-specific interventions can be built). In this study, FOCUS is being tailored for SUD treatment settings.

Primary outcome measure

  • Counselor self-efficacy [ Time Frame: Every 6 months for 2 years ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Jure Baloh, PhD

501 526 6604jbaloh@uams.edu

Locations

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

Recruiting

Little Rock, Arkansas, United States, 72205

Contacts

Jure Baloh, PhD

501-526-6604jbaloh@uams.edu

More Information

Sponsor

University of Arkansas

Last update posted

Dec 11, 2025

Last verified

Dec, 2025

Keywords

  • supervision
  • substance use disorder treatment facility
  • organizational context
  • counselor burnout
  • counselor self-efficacy

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-10. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by University of Arkansas on 2025-12-11.