Provides a professional model for practicum supervision using supervisors with equal responsibility and status. The model stresses the use of professional knowledge in both the content and process of practicum supervision. Dual-focus supervision is seen as the integration and application of theory congruency and interpersonal dynamics. (Author/BL)

Examined application of professional model for practicum supervision using co-equal supervisors. Found beginning practicum students learned to use a counseling theory in practice; were rated equal to or higher on skills than a comparison group of interns, graduate students, and agency counselors; and rated the professional supervision practicum…

This article presents a model for teaching counseling theory prior to a graduate student's first practicum in counseling. The model was developed to present current theories to graduate students in counseling, to develop student self-awareness by having students apply the theories to themselves, and to enable students to practice each theory in a…