Clinical supervision in forensic psychiatry in India

The present paper draws from the authors’ experiences while working on an interdisciplinary research project that examined the mental health of prisoners sentenced to death in India. In this paper, the authors share a few narratives to illustrate the positive and negative impacts of clinical supervision that they received during their associationwith this project. Specifically, the authors discuss the impact of a range of resourcessuch as supervisors’ theoretical orientation, prior work experience, use of culturallysensitive tools on the skill development, and the mental health of trainees, especially inan Indian organizational context. This paper also highlights the role of clinical super-visors in guiding mental health trainees through various ethical dilemmas, with par-ticular emphasis on the research related to incarcerated populations. Lastly, the authorsdraw attention to the problems of conducting multidisciplinary clinical research indeveloping nations such as India and discuss the means to overcome them. The paperconcludes with implications for clinical supervisors in the field of forensic mentalhealth who want to undertake research and clinical work on a similar topic in the future.