Clinical Supervision & Professional Development Flashcards

According to the Integrated Developmental Model (IDM), a Level 1 supervisee typically shows which characteristics?

Answer: High motivation, high anxiety, and dependence on the supervisor

Level 1 counselors are typically highly motivated and anxious, and they rely heavily on supervisor structure.

In Bernard's Discrimination Model, which three roles may a supervisor take on?

Answer: Teacher, counselor, consultant

Bernard's model has the supervisor move among teacher, counselor, and consultant roles across intervention, conceptualization, and personalization skills.

A supervisee becomes passive and helpless in supervision, much like their client does in sessions. What is this called?

Answer: Parallel process

Parallel process happens when dynamics from the counselor–client relationship are reenacted in the supervisory relationship.

Under which legal doctrine can a clinical supervisor be held responsible for a supervisee's negligent acts?

Answer: Respondeat superior (vicarious liability)

Respondeat superior holds supervisors liable for acts their supervisees perform within the scope of supervision.

Which supervision method gives the supervisor the most direct information about a counselor's actual skills?

Answer: Live observation or recorded session review

Direct observation or recordings show what actually happened in session, without the filtering that self-report adds.

According to Bordin, which three components make up the supervisory working alliance?

Answer: Goals, tasks, and bond

Bordin described the working alliance as agreement on goals and tasks plus an emotional bond.

In the IDM, which three overriding structures are used to track a supervisee's development?

Answer: Self-and-other awareness, motivation, and autonomy

The IDM tracks growth through self-and-other awareness, motivation, and autonomy at each level.