Creative Supervision for Counselors Working in a Hospice Setting

ABSTRACT

The number of individuals receiving hospice care in the United States is on the rise. Many individuals who suffer from debilitating health issues use the care of helping professionals in a hospice environment. Supervision approaches for counselors who encounter grief, loss, death, and bereavement issues in hospice settings are needed. The authors introduce three creative interventions for use with supervisees in one of the four stages of the integrative developmental model of supervision. One intervention, the “Rock Talk,” is more thoroughly explained and then demonstrated in a case illustration of a supervisee using the intervention to say goodbye to a hospice client.

KEYWORDS:

• Counselors
• creativity
• creativity in counseling
• death
• dying
• education
• hospice
• supervision

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Notes on contributors

Ashley M. Prado

Ashley M. Prado is a doctoral candidate in Counselor Education and Supervision at The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas.

Stacy Perez Waterman

Stacy Perez Waterman is a doctoral candidate in Counselor Education and Supervision at the University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas.