Application: Understanding the Role of Models of Clinical Supervision
Prior to this course, you may have assumed that counseling and clinical supervision were analogous. Many practitioners in the field are under the impression that a good counselor makes a good supervisor. However, it is doubtful that the unique tasks of supervision can be fully addressed without a foundation and a framework from which to practice. Clinical supervision includes its own framework and processes. As a clinical supervisor in training, you learn to discriminate between these various models so you are able to identify which model compliments your own personal style. For this Application Assignment, you consider the application of specific supervision frameworks with diverse populations of supervisees.
To prepare for this assignment:
•Review Case Study: Naomi and think about using a supervision model rather than psychotherapeutic theory as a clinical supervision framework.
•Review the assigned journal articles from this week’s Learning Resources. Consider how the supervision models discussed in these articles would inform your clinical supervision of Naomi.
•Select at least one model that you would consider adopting as a framework for your clinical supervision of Naomi, and one model you would not select as a framework for your supervision.
•Conduct a literature search for at least one additional scholarly peer-reviewed article related to a model of supervision not discussed in this week’s Resources. (Therefore, your Application should include a minimum of three referenced scholarly articles.)
•Assess the different models of clinical supervision you reviewed this week, paying close attention to key concepts of the models, assumptions of the models, and related techniques and interventions.
•Consider how the dynamics of supervision might be affected by the model you would employ in a supervisory session.
•Think about diversity considerations that you would need to address in Case Study: Naomi.
The assignment: (4–5 pages)
•Select one supervisory model that you would be most likely to adopt as a clinical supervisor working with Naomi, and one model you are least likely to use.
•Describe an additional supervision model not discussed in this week’s Learning Resources, and apply each of these three models to Case Study: Naomi.
•Explain how the model you favored would be more culturally responsive to the particulars of Case Study: Naomi. Be specific.
Support your Application Assignment, citing all resources in APA style, including those in the Learning Resources.
