This article emphasizes the need for concrete descriptions of supervision to promote diversity-competent group work and presents an application of the supervision of group work model (SGW) to this end. The SGW, a supervision model adapted from the discrimination model, is uniquely suited for promoting diversity competence in group work, since it…

This digest focuses on Information Process Recall (IPR), a supervision strategy developed to increase counselor awareness of covert thoughts and feelings and to deepen the therapeutic relationship between the counselor and the client. Steps in conducting IPR are given as a guideline for conducting IPR recall sessions using audio or video tapes. To…

This paper reviews the development of the supervisory conference from 1930 to the present and contrasts the objectives and procedures of traditional and emerging models of supervision. A general discussion of systematic observation instruments for use in supervisory conferences leads to detailed descriptions of and directions for using two…

Examined relational consequences of supervisors' and supervisees' disagreements about supervisee's counseling sophistication, using Stoltenberg's developmental model of counselor supervision. Supervisors perceived themselves as varying their behavior with supervisees of different developmental levels, though supervisees did not see this.…

Presents and discusses a conceptual model of the concerns of prerelease offenders and community supervisors. The conceptualization suggests that "perceptual differences" of the concerns of prerelease status is one alternative for examining the supervisorial relationship. Attempts to identify and confront the different expectations of supervisors…

Describes a data-based, anxiety-reducing supervisory process. Several instruments are presented that can be used by teachers to gather information on their own performance. (MLF)

Examines the formulation of supervisory feedback messages as a function of attributions regarding poor subordinate performance and feedback goals. Finds that supervisors' goals determine the type of feedback generated and that attributions for poor performance have relatively few effects on the generation of feedback messages. (KEH)

Discussion of effective performance supervision emphasizes measurability, communication, follow through, and revision, and provides a generic model applicable to a variety of supervisory settings. Highlights include observation and documentation of actual performance; communicating variance between performance standards and actual performance;…

Investigated effect of Structured Group Supervision (SGS) model on master's-level counseling students' (n=194) personal and skill development. Collected data during participants' enrollment in practicum courses taught over seven-year period. SGS model of group supervision seemed superior in comparison with "control" group model.…

Presents a model for the supervisory relationship between faculty and graduate research students. Defines "competent autonomy" and proposes it as a universal objective of the Ph.D. and of the model, which stresses alignment of supervisory style with student development. Use with Ph.D. students indicates that the model encourages students to…

This paper focuses on using a systems approach to develop supervisory conference strategies to be tested in constructed and controlled teaching-supervisory situations. This involves identifying performance objectives through a functional analysis of teaching and analyzing the interacting and interdependent variables. It is then necessary to…

Explores a model of supervisors' communication behavior from the subordinate's perspective. Tests a hypotheses about which perceived supervisory styles are associated with the least and the most subordinates' satisfaction and organizational commitment. Finds that verbal aggressiveness is especially potent in explaining variability in satisfaction…

Lack of clinical supervision continues to be a major problem for school counseling practitioners. In this article, the authors describe group supervision as a viable option for addressing this important issue and outline four models of group supervision. Additionally, several considerations for planning and implementing supervision groups in…

Differentiated supervision is an approach to supervision that provides teachers with options about the kinds of supervisory and evaluative services they receive. The differentiated model provides intensive development to nontenured teachers and to tenured teachers with serious problems. The rest of the faculty receive options for fostering their…

Effective psychotherapy supervision calls for a variety of supervisory roles and addresses a range of student needs. The particular student need should be the determining factor in selecting an appropriate supervisory role. The supervisor needs a range of role alternatives, a framework in which to fit student needs, a specified area of focus…