Explores awareness shown by employing organizations to the "loss" element of a grief-counseling client's experience and the implications of organizational context for the counselor's role. Argues that practitioner activity cannot be understood by describing some activities as counseling and others as use of counseling skills. There seems to be a…

Several characteristics of supervision research create barriers to framing inferences about which models of supervision are better than others, or even if supervision is effective in improving trainees' overall levels of therapeutic effectiveness. Discusses important lessons to be learned from supervision research. (Author)

Proposes "analytical observation" as a method of training evaluation for health-care providers. The method, which utilizes observation charts, has been validated through a study that examined the impact of supervision of health-care providers in the domain of therapeutic education of patients. Results show that this method has a definite impact on…

Discusses supervision of children on playgrounds, addressing rationale, ratio of supervisors to children, and training of supervisors. Training issues covered include what to look for in the setting, how to actively move through the playground, and how to respond. Includes a list of video and print resources. (EV)

Shows how school design can enhance study safety by facilitating supervision. Design concepts of limiting building access to outsiders, creating good traffic flow, and avoiding blind spots and informal gathering areas that resist monitoring are discussed. (GR)

Discusses a thematic analysis of retrospective phenomenological interviews with four group counseling practicum participants. Suggests the importance of peer feedback supports experimenting with different approaches to the group process. Recommends future research on the impact of group counseling practicum supervision be structured to allow…

Uses data from interviews with counselors to examine ineffective supervision practices. The data yielded six negative principles that permeated three general spheres of lousy supervision: (1) unbalanced, (2) intolerant of differences, (3) untrained/immature, (4) developmentally inappropriate, (5) poor model, and (6) professionally apathetic. By…

Five experienced (expert) and six beginning (novice) principals viewed a classroom teaching episode for teacher supervision purposes on two occasions. Findings show important differences between experts and novices in their abilities to make recommendations for the improvement of teaching. (SLD)

In this study multicultural counseling training contributed significantly to the variance in ratings of a culturally sensitive counselor. No significant contribution was made to the variance in ratings of the culturally insensitive counselor. Possible explanations and implications of these results in multicultural counseling supervision are…

Facilitation in the workplace, especially when undertaken by supervisors, can pose challenges involving hostile conditions and coercion, diminishing its effectiveness for adult learning. It requires examination of the dynamics of trust building, the roles of participants, and the use of facilitators whose interests are independent of the context.…

Describes what occurs when trainees and supervisors encounter a lack of consensus in supervision. The pattern of interaction was characterized by negotiation and collaboration. Supervisors and trainees collaborate to produce a presentation of the trainee as a competent clinician and a cooperative trainee. Supervisors identify deficiencies and…

Presents communication procedures for supervisors and therapy trainees that have been developed as a result of the use of computer technology. Using the computer as a supervision tool, therapy can be influenced by the supervisor while minimizing disruption. Successes and pitfalls in a master's level practicum course in family therapy are…

Examines the relationship between supervisor perceptions of their supervisory style and elements of the supervision process, including the supervisory working alliance and supervisor self-disclosure. Results demonstrate a significant positive relationship between attractive, interpersonally sensitive, and task-oriented supervisory styles and…

Discusses a study of three-way supervisory conferences. Despite an asymmetrical power relationship between the university supervisor and student teacher, the two parties played complementary roles, with the former providing more input requiring reflection and evaluation and the latter providing more input pertaining to classroom practicalities and…

Results of a survey of cross-racial supervision dyads at university counseling centers showed supervisees were more sensitive to cultural/racial issues than were supervisors; supervisors reported making more efforts to address cultural issues than supervisees perceived; and satisfaction with supervision was related to supervisees' self-disclosure…