Supervision
Krystine Mitchell
COUN6201 Intro to Marriage
December 20th, 2015
Dr. Alicia Fahr
Walden University
Supervision is crucial for new counseling graduates beginning internships, or work within the field. As graduates commence work in the counseling field, former students go through phases of anxiety coupled with varying levels of self-confidence. With each of the phases, the supervisor is to provide appropriate support to the supervisee. An example of this type of support might be the intern is highly stressed, anxious and experiencing very low levels of self-confidence. The supervisor would then provide the supervisee with encouragement, provide opportunities for role playing and observation of modeling with …show more content…
James was described as a graduate student intern working on his Marriage and Family Therapy Program, with specialization in working with couples and families. In this scenario James has completed two counseling sessions with a married couple who is experiencing trust deficiencies, following infidelity within the marriage of 10 years. James shared during one of his sessions with his supervisor, his thoughts on this particular case. James explains his interventions and strategies up to this point, also goes on to express his struggles with assisting this couple in effectively communicating. In this case study the supervisor used Systematic Developmental Supervision (SDS) and assessed that James fell into the Intermediate Family Counselor. This particular phase is someone that experiences some anxiety, some self-confidence. Requires from the supervisor genogram, parallel process, transference and counter …show more content…
In the Systemic Developmental Supervision Model (SDS), three main levels are used to identify where the supervisee is rating and how the supervisor is able to help. The three levels consist of: Beginning Family Counselor, Intermediate Family Counselor and finally Experience Family Counselor. Beginning Family Counselors predominately being highly stressed students, possibly in their internship or practicum. However, this is not a rule. If for example a student participating in their internship/practicum has a good level of understanding for what they are doing and is managing their stress with ease, supervisors are able to move students up to a higher level. As supervisors are encouraged to be flexible and mold to support their supervisees in the manner in which they individually need, not all interventions will look the exact same.
Conclusion
In conclusion, students going into the counseling field are set up to participate in internships and/or practicums to allow for the utilization of a supervision model. This systemic developmental supervision (SDS) is used to assist supervisors in being able to properly accommodate the needs for support from each in coming counselor in the field. This model works off a level system that works to encourage supervisors in being flexible and
Krystine Mitchell
COUN6201 Intro to Marriage
December 20th, 2015
Dr. Alicia Fahr
Walden University
Supervision is crucial for new counseling graduates beginning internships, or work within the field. As graduates commence work in the counseling field, former students go through phases of anxiety coupled with varying levels of self-confidence. With each of the phases, the supervisor is to provide appropriate support to the supervisee. An example of this type of support might be the intern is highly stressed, anxious and experiencing very low levels of self-confidence. The supervisor would then provide the supervisee with encouragement, provide opportunities for role playing and observation of modeling with …show more content…
James was described as a graduate student intern working on his Marriage and Family Therapy Program, with specialization in working with couples and families. In this scenario James has completed two counseling sessions with a married couple who is experiencing trust deficiencies, following infidelity within the marriage of 10 years. James shared during one of his sessions with his supervisor, his thoughts on this particular case. James explains his interventions and strategies up to this point, also goes on to express his struggles with assisting this couple in effectively communicating. In this case study the supervisor used Systematic Developmental Supervision (SDS) and assessed that James fell into the Intermediate Family Counselor. This particular phase is someone that experiences some anxiety, some self-confidence. Requires from the supervisor genogram, parallel process, transference and counter …show more content…
In the Systemic Developmental Supervision Model (SDS), three main levels are used to identify where the supervisee is rating and how the supervisor is able to help. The three levels consist of: Beginning Family Counselor, Intermediate Family Counselor and finally Experience Family Counselor. Beginning Family Counselors predominately being highly stressed students, possibly in their internship or practicum. However, this is not a rule. If for example a student participating in their internship/practicum has a good level of understanding for what they are doing and is managing their stress with ease, supervisors are able to move students up to a higher level. As supervisors are encouraged to be flexible and mold to support their supervisees in the manner in which they individually need, not all interventions will look the exact same.
Conclusion
In conclusion, students going into the counseling field are set up to participate in internships and/or practicums to allow for the utilization of a supervision model. This systemic developmental supervision (SDS) is used to assist supervisors in being able to properly accommodate the needs for support from each in coming counselor in the field. This model works off a level system that works to encourage supervisors in being flexible and