Counseling Supervisors' Clinical Healthcare Leadership Development: A Phenomenological Study

Clinical Counseling Supervision

Clinical counseling supervision may be described in multiple manners. Counseling supervision is a vital and complicated subject that has been well explored in counseling research (Curtis & Sherlock, 2006; Kocyigit, 2022). Bernard and Goodyear’s (1992) venerable definition of the term, supervision, views it as an intervention conducted by a more established professional in a field to a less established professional in the same field. Bernard and Goodyear’s (1992) definition of “supervision” has served as a foundation upon which these and other researchers have built.

Counseling supervision is a primary educational approach employed to assess counselor development and responsibility (Anderson et al., 2022; Baltrinic & Wachter Morris, 2020; Gazzola et al., 2013). Counseling supervision consists of supervisory actions that assist or inform the counseling interventions performed by supervisees (ACES, 2011). Counseling supervision is the medium to prepare, educate, and assess treatment quality provided by supervisees (Evans et al., 2016). Supervision is a long term evaluative and hierarchical relationship between a senior professional and a junior colleague, one that monitors and evaluates the professional services of the junior professional (Bernard & Goodyear, 2018). The employment of both counseling supervision and counseling is influenced by multicultural considerations and competencies.