This digest focuses on supervision issues for school counselors. It begins by addressing the need for professionally appropriate supervision to nurture school counselors' professional development. A section on the process of school counselor supervision begins by looking at clinical, developmental, and administrative supervision. The purpose of…

The Postgraduate Center for Psychotherapy in Haifa, Israel has developed a one-year seminar in psychodynamic supervision for practicing supervisors. Twenty-five participants took part in group seminars designed to address the process of supervision and the theoretical, personal, and stylistic differences among supervisors. This paper describes the…

Intended for employers, supervisors, and coworkers, the booklet presents guidelines for accommodating learning disabled (LD) employees. An introductory section explains the condition, describing its nature and the range of impairments it includes. Five types of learning disabilities are identified: visual, auditory, motor, tactile, and academic.…

This guide attempts to solve problems caused when a certain designated "brand" of supervision is forced on the counselor trainee with neither choice nor checklist of important criteria. As a tentative start on a guide to supervision the paper offers the following: a definition of supervision; a summary of the various types of supervision; a…

QUESTIONNAIRE RESPONSES FROM 37 JUNIOR COLLEGES WERE USED AS A BASIS FOR ANALYZING CURRENT PRACTICES IN SUPERVISON OF INSTRUCTION AND FOR DEVELOPING A PROPOSED PROGRAM FOR SUCH SUPERVISION. WHILE DIFFERENCES IN DEGREE OF SUPERVISION WERE FOUND, THERE WERE FEW SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES AMONG INSTITUTIONS WITH RESPECT TO MATERIALS USED IN SUPERVISION,…

This paper compares the methods for prescribing exercise according to various contemporary authorities. The programs are compared as to their goals, the testing modalities and physiological parameters used for prescription of the initial training session, and the methods and the progression of training. Regarding goals, there is a general…

This report discusses the kinds of objectives that supervisors should pursue and proposes an approach that emphasizes human resource development and organizational enrichment as proper emphases for modern supervisors. The author illustrates the advantages of his approach over traditional and contemporary supervisory approaches by considering four…

Many studies have suggested that supervisor performance and employee knowledge of organizational policies are related--that the better supervisors are those who are more sensitive to their communication responsibilities so that they tend to give clear instructions and keep their subordinates properly informed. A study was devised to test this…

Responds to Biggs' article on the case presentation approach in clinical supervision. Notes that Biggs provides one of the few discussions explicating the tasks in case conceptualizations useful for enhancing cognitive development available in the literature. Raises concerns about Biggs' assumptions about the cognitive level of trainees and the…

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.…

Reviews the group supervision literature in counselor training from 1960 to 1983. Included only those articles pertaining to supervised groups of counselor trainees participating in individual counseling practica. Descriptions of group supervision include elements of case presentation, didactic information, and interpersonal process. (Author/BH)

Describes an inner city New York City school that has achieved some success in improving urban education. (JF)

Techniques of supervision must change to provide more effective leadership and reduce present duplication of effort. Supervisors should be specialists in program areas. Group meetings can be used to efficiently handle routine activities. Leaders should devote more time to planning, innovating, coordinating and improving programs and less time to…

Counseling is praised for its emphasis on the "developmental" rather than "policing" role of supervision. Profession's presumption that supervision indicates anything about the client is challenged. Client must be admitted to the counseling room for this to happen. Explores various means to achieve this; highlights resistance of the profession.…

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;…