Intermodal Expressive Arts in Group Supervision

ABSTRACT

Group supervision is an integral part of developing counseling skills and case conceptualization. Group supervision can also be used as a supervision intervention to facilitate the development of supervisory skills when group members are supervising counselors and the focus of the group is on supervision of supervision. As with any group, group supervision members can often become stagnated when group trust and cohesiveness have not been well developed, thus hindering the group supervision process. The authors describe how an intermodal expressive arts technique was employed to develop trust and cohesiveness in a supervision group that was experiencing ineffective group dynamics.

KEYWORDS:

• Expressive arts
• group supervision
• music
• poetry
• creativity in counseling

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Notes on contributors

Keith M. Davis

Keith M. Davis and Nadine Hartig are in the Department of Counselor Education at Radford University, Radford, Virginia.

Melia A. Snyder

Melia A. Snyder is in the Department of Human Development & Psychological Counseling, Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina.