Clinical Supervision in the Helping Professions: A Practical Guide

This user-friendly guide is for students, prelicensed professionals, and practicing supervisors seeking the knowledge and skills necessary to effectively supervise others. It is an ideal resource for practicum, fieldwork, and internship seminars across the mental health professions, and the contemporary case examples, authors' personal perspectives, and insightful vignettes from 45 contributing authors offer a unique glimpse at key issues in the theory and practice of supervision. Topics covered include the roles and responsibilities of supervisors, the supervisory relationship, models and methods of supervision, development as a multiculturally competent supervisor, ethical and legal issues in supervision, crisis management, and evaluation. Interactive questions and exercises throughout the text stimulate readers to self-reflect and grow in both competence and confidence in navigating the supervision process.

GERALD COREY, EdD, ABPP, is professor emeritus of Human Services and Counseling at California State University at Fullerton. He received his doctorate in counseling from the University of Southern California. He was awarded an honorary doctorate in Humane Letters in 1992 from National Louis University. He is a Diplomate in Counseling Psychology, American Board of Professional Psychology; a licensed psychologist in California; and a National Certified Counselor. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (Division 17, Counseling Psychology; and Division 49, Group Psychotherapy); a Fellow of the American Counseling Association; and a Fellow of the Association for Specialists in Group Work. He also holds memberships in the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision; and the Western Association of Counselor Education and Supervision. He received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Mental Health Counselors Association in 2011, the Eminent Career Award from ASGW in 2001, and the Outstanding Professor of the Year Award from California State University at Fullerton in 1991. He is the author or coauthor of 16 textbooks in counseling currently in print, along with more than 70 journal articles and numerous book chapters. His book, Theory and Practice of Counseling and Psychotherapy, has been translated into Arabic, Indonesian, Portuguese, Turkish, Korean, and Chinese. Theory and Practice of Group Counseling has been translated into Korean, Chinese, Spanish, and Russian. Issues and Ethics in the Helping Professions has been translated into Korean, Japanese, and Chinese. With his colleagues, he has conducted workshops in the United States, Germany, Ireland, Belgium, Scotland, Mexico, Canada, China, and Korea―with a special focus on training in group counseling.

ROBERT HAYNES, PhD, is a clinical psychologist, author, and producer of psychology video programs for Borderline Productions. Bob received his doctorate in clinical psychology from Fuller Graduate School of Psychology and is a member of the American Counseling Association and the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision. He has been actively involved in professional psychology through private practice as well as consulting, leading workshops, and writing on a variety of topics. In addition, Bob taught psychology, criminology, team building, and management courses at the University of California at Santa Barbara, California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo, and California State University Sacramento. He also served as chair of Site Visiting Teams for the Committee on Accreditation of the American Psychological Association. Bob retired after 25 years as training director of the accredited clinical psychology internship program at Atascadero State Hospital in California. Bob served for 35 years in the capacity of both administrative and clinical supervisor in a variety of academic and clinical settings. He also provided consultation and training in clinical supervision, criminology, disaster mental health, psychotherapy methods, team building, conflict resolution, stress management and burnout, suicide assessment and intervention, and theoretical approaches in psychotherapy. 

PATRICE MOULTON, PhD, serves as full professor of psychology at Northwestern State University in the master’s program for clinical psychology. She lives in Natchitoches Louisiana with husband Michael Moulton, a graduate professor in sports administration. Their son, Bryce, is completing his sophomore year at Tulane University. She has worked as an educator, administrator, practitioner, supervisor, and consultant for over 30 years. 

Patrice is the author of multiple self-help and higher education textbooks and journal articles on topics including addiction counseling, supervision, online teaching, and crisis counseling.

MICHELLE MURATORI, PhD, is a senior counselor at the Center for Talented Youth at Johns Hopkins University, in Baltimore, Maryland, where she works with highly gifted middle school and high school students who participate in the Study of Exceptional Talent and their families. After earning her MA in counseling psychology from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, Michelle received her PhD in counselor education from the University of Iowa where she developed her research and clinical interests in gifted education. Her graduate research on the academic, social, and emotional adjustment of young college entrants earned her recognition from the Iowa Talented and Gifted Association, the National Association for Gifted Children, and the Mensa Education and Research Foundation and Mensa International, Ltd. At the University of Iowa, Michelle also earned the Howard R. Jones Achievement Award, the Albert Hood Promising Scholar Award, and the First in the Nation in Education (FINE) Scholar Award. 

Since 2005, Michelle has been a faculty associate in the Johns Hopkins School of Education in the master’s of science counseling program. She has taught a variety of courses but has a passion for group counseling and loves training students the art of group facilitation. In 2014, she was honored with the Johns Hopkins University Alumni Association Excellence in Teaching Award. Michelle regularly presents at national conferences in counseling and gifted education and is a member of the American Counseling Association, the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision, the Association for Specialists in Group Work, the Maryland Association for Counseling and Development, and the National Association for Gifted Children.