Evaluation in Counseling Supervision

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This paper cites a number of different expert opinions on the role of the supervisor in the counseling process. The paper uses these expert opinions to explain the role of the supervisor and the relationship that might exist between the supervisor and the trainee. The paper also discusses the damage that can occur as a result of nondisclosure of relevant case material by supervisees, such as diminished treatment quality or increased liability risk of supervisors. Additionally, the paper discusses eight supervisory themes and issues that tend to recur in group supervisor supervision and suggests intervention strategies to address them.

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"Gundrun (1991) stated that supervision means that trainees are confronted with old patterns of relating to authority figures. In the trainees' unconscious minds, supervisors play the roles of parents, teachers, or other authority figures. Especially in the early supervisory process, supervisors may be identified with parental figures. We may assume that the supervisory situation is evocative of the supervisees' relationship with authority figures, independent of the role supervisors may play in reality. For example, supervisors can act more as teachers of psychotherapy with a patient-centered approach, giving didactic comments about the patients and recommendations on technique or in a more supervisee-oriented approach, they can focus on the supervisees' experiences with their patients and supervisors, by exploring attitudes rather than teach techniques. A third approach supervisors could use would be two combining or alternating the patient-centered and supervisee-oriented approaches according to the demands of the situation."

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