Foundational Philosophy
Methods & Techniques
Focus Areas
Supervisory Roles
Supervisory Functions
100

This supervision approach emphasizes empathy, authenticity, and the supervisory relationship as the primary mechanism of growth.

What is Humanistic / Relationship-Oriented Supervision?

100

This technique involves reviewing recordings of sessions to enhance supervisee skill development.

What is audio/video review?

100

This focus area involves improving empathy, attending skills, and therapeutic presence.


What is skills development?

100

This role involves providing instruction and teaching specific counseling skills.


What is the teacher role?

100

This function involves providing encouragement, validation, and emotional support to supervisees.


What is the supportive function?

200

This model assumes supervisee development occurs across awareness, motivation, and autonomy.

What is the Integrated Developmental Model (IDM)?

200

This structured supervision technique involves reenacting counseling scenarios to practice interventions.


What is role-play (behavioral rehearsal)?

200

This supervision focus involves connecting diagnostic impressions to treatment planning and interventions.

What is case conceptualization?

200

This role emphasizes emotional support and helping supervisees process reactions to clinical work.


What is the counselor role?

200

This function focuses on teaching knowledge, skills, and clinical techniques.


What is the educational function?

300

This supervision framework is grounded in the belief that problems and learning occur within relational and systemic contexts.

What is Systemic Supervision?

300

This reflective method asks supervisees to revisit specific moments in sessions to explore thoughts and feelings.

What is Interpersonal Process Recall (IPR)?

300

This area emphasizes awareness of power, privilege, and systemic oppression in counseling practice.

What is culturally responsive practice (or multicultural/social justice focus)?

300

This role involves offering expertise while allowing supervisees to generate their own solutions.


What is the consultant role?

300

This function includes assessing supervisee competence and providing formal feedback.


What is the evaluative function?

400

This supervision model centers power, oppression, and sociopolitical context as core influences on supervision and counseling.


What is Feminist Supervision?

400

This supervision method uses real-time observation and feedback during a counseling session.

What is live supervision?

400

This focus area includes maintaining boundaries, adhering to professional codes, and managing legal responsibilities.

What is ethics and professionalism?

400

This supervision model explicitly organizes supervision around three roles: teacher, counselor, and consultant.


What is the Discrimination Model?

400

This responsibility ensures supervisees meet professional and ethical standards and protects client welfare.


What is gatekeeping?

500

This developmental model conceptualizes growth as nonlinear, moving through stagnation, confusion, and integration.


What is the Loganbill, Hardy, and Delworth Developmental Model?

500

This systems-oriented technique involves multiple observers providing feedback from different perspectives.

What is a reflecting team?

500

This model-specific focus area includes intervention, conceptualization, and personalization domains.


What are the focus areas of the Discrimination Model?

500

In developmental models, this role becomes primary as supervisees reach higher levels of autonomy.

What is the consultant role?

500

This function requires supervisors to intervene when supervisees demonstrate insufficient competence or ethical concerns.


What is the gatekeeping (or evaluative) function?