ABSTRACT
Most school counseling site supervisors have not received training in clinical supervision despite regularly serving as supervisors for school counseling students. In this article, we describe how one university has created a clinical faculty supervision training program for school counselors to address this need. The program infrastructure, training activities, session content, and evaluation methods are described. We present informal program evaluation data (N = 19) assessing participants’ perspectives of the program and discuss implications for supervision training.
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Clare Merlin
Clare Merlin is an Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Clare was formerly a doctoral student at the College of William & Mary, where she trained school counseling site supervisors in clinical supervision from 2013 to 2015. She enjoys researching innovations in the training of school counseling site supervisors in order to better prepare school counseling students. Clare regularly provides group supervision to school counseling internship students at UNC Charlotte.
Johnston M. Brendel
Johnston M. Brendel is a Clinical Associate Professor at the College of William & Mary. In 2012, John co-wrote a grant awarded by the Virginia Department of Education that funded the first School Counseling Clinical Faculty Program. He has been involved in the training of school counseling site supervisors since then, in addition to regularly conducting clinical supervision with school counseling and clinical mental health students at the College of William & Mary.