Counseling Supervision

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This paper explains that counseling supervision entails that persons in a therapeutic role are supervised by a peer for the purpose of professional and personal development and that in the United Kingdom this supervisory relationship continues even after the counselor has finished her training. The paper points out that this is different from the U.S. where the supervisory relationship is no longer deemed necessary after the training period. The paper also examines the reasons for these two different systems and suggests that the United States is at a lesser stage of development than the United Kingdom in their supervisory practice.

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"Supervising paradigms are thus often the result of culturally developed norms of providing counseling to clients. In the United States for example, the conceptual influencing practice requires counselors to be supervised only in training, whereas they are left to practice on their own after training. The British model focuses more on practice moving towards theory, which makes peer review and consistent standards of theoretical counseling practice important."

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