Supervisor Fidelity Process Guidance Tool - OhioGuidestone Research Portal

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The fidelity process for Joyful Together® integrates specific competencies with reflective supervision to best implement and sustain the model. Please use this fidelity tool to review your staff’s use, understanding and growth using Joyful Together® throughout the current research phase. Each Joyful Together® competency area should be examined and reflected upon with your staff (Your staff will bring their completed checklist to each supervision session). Additional support and resources are included for each competency area. Please use the comment box to note reflections, suggestions and other feedback from supervision sessions reviewing Joyful Together®.

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Staff routinely reviews the tracking tool (see the "Joyful Calendar" om study handouts) with the family and the activities they tried since the last visit and explores reasons why it's not completed when necessary. *

Tips to assess this fidelity item, as well as additional resources:
- Using the Tracking Tool is page 36 of the manual
- Tracking Tool completion is research requirement
- Review importance of tracking how activities are being used
- Review the need to monitor number of activities done each day
- Caregiver follow through week to week is needed for positive benefits

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Staff is comfortable having conversations with caregivers about the concept of Joy and co-regulation. *

Tips tp assess this fidelity item, as well as additional resources:
- Explanation of Joy and benefits starts on page 21 of the manual
- Information about co-regulation starts on page 17 of the manual
- Sharing the concept of Joy ("in Your Own Words") starts on page 28 of the manual
- Practice conversations during meetings to build comfort and confidence
- Deep Dive - watch Panksepp's TedTalk on the "Science of Emotions"

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Staff emphasizes that there is no right or wrong way to do a Joy activity. *

Tips tp assess this fidelity item, as well as additional resources:
- Benefits of Joyful activity are described on page 23 of the manual
- Coaching caregivers to play starts on page 27 of the manual
- Instructions for using Joyful Together® activities starts on page 33 of the manual

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Staff is able to provide coaching to work through family difficulties with competition or engagement in Joyful Together activities. *

Tips tp assess this fidelity item, as well as additional resources:
- Support for competition and engagement begins on page 33 of the manual
- Coaching caregivers to play starts on page 27 of the manual
- Provide opportunities to discuss the difference between teaching and coaching during meetings

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Staff is able to help caregivers recognize cues for when the activities have reached their natural conclusion. *

Tips to assess this fidelity item, as well as additional resources:
- Support for activity transitions is on page 34 of the manual

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Staff routinely has conversations with caregivers and children after completed activities to better understand their experience. *

Tips tp assess this fidelity item, as well as additional resources:
- Support for processing experiences at the end of an activity is on page 34 of the manual
- Discuss reflective process to support deeper learning of the concept of Joy and co-regulation for the caregiver

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Staff is able to reflect on resistance and reluctance from families. *

Tips tp assess this fidelity item, as well as additional resources:
- Managing resistance is on page 34 of the manual
- Help staff to reframe resistance as reluctance
- Assist the staff to follow the resistance to caregiver's anxiety and relational loss
- Work with staff to be able to ask "how can I help you trust me"
- Deep Dive - read Overcoming Reluctance manual for support in building relationships

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Staff routinely praise all effort from the caregiver and child. *

Tips tp assess this fidelity item, as well as additional resources:
- Setting the stage for successful participations begins on page 29 of the manual
- Review importance of positive, strength-based interaction
- Having a positive relationship with the caregiver sets the example for the goal of positive connection between caregiver and child
- Deep Dive - watch Managing your own emotion: The key to positive, effective parent

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I was mindful and present throughout the visit to model co-regulation. *

Tips tp assess this fidelity item, as well as additional resources:
- Support for being present in the moment is on page 32 of the manual
- Discuss allowing activities to go in whatever direction the family wants to go
- Reflect on staff sharing their experience of Joy with the caregiver and child throughout the visit
- Deep Dive - learn more about mindfulness and its benefits

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