Collegial Supervisory Practice

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Supervision plays a vital role in the professional development and practice of mental health counselors and psychotherapists by serving “a critical quality control function” that ensures gatekeeping for clients’ safety and care, and clinicians’ skill and disposition development (Watkins, 1997, p. 3)
Solution-focused (SF) supervision is grounded in a research-based counseling theory and has been found to be particularly useful for site supervisors in schools and in other settings where there is limited time for supervision and limited clinical supervision training (Cigrand & Wood, 2011). The emphasis in on a more collegial supervisory relationship. Much like SF counseling, the supervisor uses techniques such as video talk, scaling, and the miracle