Introduction
The Association identifies clinical supervision as vital to the counselling task and the principle means of enabling a counsellor’s development. Clinical supervisors are mindful of the counsellor, the counsellor’s clients and the context in which the counsellor works. They undertake responsibility for the quality of the supervision provided. This demands a level of commitment to personal and professional development and the practice of supervision.
Definition
Clinical supervision is the process entered into by a counsellor (or group of counsellors) with the supervisor for the purpose of integrating theory and practice in response to specific counselling situations. It is a professional opportunity for counsellors to present their learning successes and difficulties with clients, identify their learning needs, become aware of their personal responses to the counselling, and develop knowledge and clarity about self in order to be able to respond effectively.
AARC Inc membership requires that supervision take place on a regular basis with different supervisors throughout a counsellor’s career; and that the relationship with a supervisor is of sufficient duration (e.g. two to three years) for the knowledge and trust to grow that is necessary for this kind of learning. It is desirable for supervisors to have received training in clinical supervision. It is not necessary that a member’s supervisor be a registered AARC Inc supervisor. AARC Inc membership also requires that the supervisor has the clinical expertise necessary to assist the counsellor in extending his or her ability to understand and work with relationship dynamics when one or more members of a relationship or family are present.
A Counsellor can expect from supervision:
1.A therapeutic approach - respect, empowerment, genuineness, congruence, clear self boundaries.
2.Counselling skills - empathy, immediacy, questioning, confronting, informing, guiding, contracting.
3.Specific supervisory process includes:
Focus on the counsellor/client system, awareness and use of parallel process, appropriate didactic input, hypothesising, flexibility, checking out and offering choices, lack of collusion, and attention to matters of professional practice accountability.
4. Ability to work with the counsellor’s model of relationship counselling and psychotherapy.
5. Recognition and acceptance of the counsellor’s responsibility for his/her development and learning.
6. Identification and evaluation of the counsellor’s personal and professional resources and performance.
7. Willingness to negotiate a programme to meet the particular developmental needs of the counsellor.
8. Willingness to self-disclose appropriately.
While supervision is important for all members it needs to be noted that these guidelines will be taken into account when considering applications for clinical membership.
The Association identifies clinical supervision as vital to the counselling task and the principle means of enabling a counsellor’s development. Clinical supervisors are mindful of the counsellor, the counsellor’s clients and the context in which the counsellor works. They undertake responsibility for the quality of the supervision provided. This demands a level of commitment to personal and professional development and the practice of supervision.
Definition
Clinical supervision is the process entered into by a counsellor (or group of counsellors) with the supervisor for the purpose of integrating theory and practice in response to specific counselling situations. It is a professional opportunity for counsellors to present their learning successes and difficulties with clients, identify their learning needs, become aware of their personal responses to the counselling, and develop knowledge and clarity about self in order to be able to respond effectively.
AARC Inc membership requires that supervision take place on a regular basis with different supervisors throughout a counsellor’s career; and that the relationship with a supervisor is of sufficient duration (e.g. two to three years) for the knowledge and trust to grow that is necessary for this kind of learning. It is desirable for supervisors to have received training in clinical supervision. It is not necessary that a member’s supervisor be a registered AARC Inc supervisor. AARC Inc membership also requires that the supervisor has the clinical expertise necessary to assist the counsellor in extending his or her ability to understand and work with relationship dynamics when one or more members of a relationship or family are present.
A Counsellor can expect from supervision:
1.A therapeutic approach - respect, empowerment, genuineness, congruence, clear self boundaries.
2.Counselling skills - empathy, immediacy, questioning, confronting, informing, guiding, contracting.
3.Specific supervisory process includes:
Focus on the counsellor/client system, awareness and use of parallel process, appropriate didactic input, hypothesising, flexibility, checking out and offering choices, lack of collusion, and attention to matters of professional practice accountability.
4. Ability to work with the counsellor’s model of relationship counselling and psychotherapy.
5. Recognition and acceptance of the counsellor’s responsibility for his/her development and learning.
6. Identification and evaluation of the counsellor’s personal and professional resources and performance.
7. Willingness to negotiate a programme to meet the particular developmental needs of the counsellor.
8. Willingness to self-disclose appropriately.
While supervision is important for all members it needs to be noted that these guidelines will be taken into account when considering applications for clinical membership.
