Supervision and Agency Management for Counselors

ISBN:

978-0-8261-2798-3

(Print)

978-0-8261-2799-0

(eBook)
DOI:

10.1891/9780826127990

Published:

Abstract

This book provides a foundation for counselors planning to supervise clinicians working with individuals and groups, attain leadership positions within an agency, or open their own professional practice. It encompasses key information about supervisory roles and responsibilities, ethics, multicultural issues, evaluation, and due-process procedures along with administrative issues such as agency leadership, budgeting, information management, crisis management, and quality-improvement practices. The book is divided into two sections: supervision and agency management. Chapters 1 to 4 are dedicated to issues related specifically to the supervisory process, such as roles and responsibilities, ethics, and various due-process procedures. Individual and groups supervision, ethical issues in supervisory relationship as well as developmental models, counseling theory-based models, and social role models of supervision are also discussed. Chapters 5 to 10 focus on the aspects of agency management (including issues that pertain to private practice) that may be less familiar to counselors. Here, chapters focus on budgeting, information management, leadership, and marketing. The budgeting chapter gives the reader information about how to financially plan and provides the information in a very accessible manner. Another chapter in this section enables assisting supervisors, counselor educators, and agency managers to understand the nature of critical incidents and crisis response and subsequently develop the strategies necessary to incorporate this important concept into practice.

Three: Ethical Issues in the Supervisory Relationship

DOI:

10.1891/9780826127990.0003

Authors

  • Deaner, Richard

Abstract

This chapter provides an overview of critical elements related to ethics and supervision. It highlights ethics in supervision and includes discussion related to the roles and responsibilities of the supervisor and supervisee. The chapter explores the issue of confidentiality in supervision. Emphasis is placed on the specific issues relevant for supervisors and supervisees who work in a postgraduate environment. As supervisors and supervisees navigate the provision of services to clients, they can use an ethical decision-making model to determine practical and competent delivery of services. Competence is a sensitive but important issue within supervision, especially when practitioners work in managed care organizations and mental health agencies. Indeed, the supervisor facilitates the professional development of the supervisee in order to enhance clinical skills. The supervisor is required to monitor the effectiveness of treatment and to assess any pertinent ethical issues involved in the counseling relationship.