IC&RC Clinical Supervision & Professional Development 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: According to the Integrated Developmental Model (IDM), a Level 1 supervisee typically shows which characteristics?
- High motivation, high anxiety, and dependence on the supervisor (Correct answer)
- Fluctuating confidence and conflict between dependence and autonomy
- Stable motivation and consistent autonomy
- Low motivation and strong resistance to feedback
Correct 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.
Question 2: In Bernard's Discrimination Model, which three roles may a supervisor take on?
- Evaluator, mentor, administrator
- Teacher, counselor, consultant (Correct answer)
- Coach, advocate, gatekeeper
- Director, therapist, monitor
Correct answer: Teacher, counselor, consultant
Bernard's model has the supervisor move among teacher, counselor, and consultant roles across intervention, conceptualization, and personalization skills.
Question 3: A supervisee becomes passive and helpless in supervision, much like their client does in sessions. What is this called?
- Countertransference
- Role ambiguity
- Parallel process (Correct answer)
- Projective identification
Correct answer: Parallel process
Parallel process happens when dynamics from the counselor–client relationship are reenacted in the supervisory relationship.
Question 4: Under which legal doctrine can a clinical supervisor be held responsible for a supervisee's negligent acts?
- Duty to warn
- Informed consent
- Res ipsa loquitur
- Respondeat superior (vicarious liability) (Correct answer)
Correct answer: Respondeat superior (vicarious liability)
Respondeat superior holds supervisors liable for acts their supervisees perform within the scope of supervision.
Question 5: Which supervision method gives the supervisor the most direct information about a counselor's actual skills?
- Live observation or recorded session review (Correct answer)
- The supervisee's self-report of sessions
- Reviewing the case notes
- Client satisfaction surveys alone
Correct answer: Live observation or recorded session review
Direct observation or recordings show what actually happened in session, without the filtering that self-report adds.
Question 6: According to Bordin, which three components make up the supervisory working alliance?
- Structure, feedback, evaluation
- Goals, tasks, and bond (Correct answer)
- Trust, empathy, congruence
- Assessment, planning, review
Correct answer: Goals, tasks, and bond
Bordin described the working alliance as agreement on goals and tasks plus an emotional bond.
Question 7: In the IDM, which three overriding structures are used to track a supervisee's development?
- Knowledge, skills, attitudes
- Assessment, intervention, ethics
- Self-and-other awareness, motivation, and autonomy (Correct answer)
- Empathy, genuineness, positive regard
Correct answer: Self-and-other awareness, motivation, and autonomy
The IDM tracks growth through self-and-other awareness, motivation, and autonomy at each level.
