Ethics and Law for School Psychologists, 8th Edition
by Susan Jacob, Dawn M. Decker, Elizabeth Timmerman Lugg, Elena Lilles Diamond
Chapter 11 ETHICAL AND LEGAL ISSUES IN SUPERVISION
Supervision can occur in a variety of settings (school, hospital, mental health clinic) and for a variety of different purposes. School psychologists may serve as supervisors of graduate students completing practicum or internship requirements or of practitioners seeking full certification or licensure; and, in larger school districts with more than one psychologist, they may assume a supervisory role as lead psychologist or director of school psychological services (Harvey et al., 2014). The goal of this chapter is to provide an introduction to some of the ethical and legal issues associated with field-based supervision of practicum students, interns, and beginning practitioners in a school setting.
Bernard and Goodyear (2019) defined supervision as
an intervention provided by a more senior member of a profession to a more junior colleague or colleagues who typically (but not always) are members of that same profession. This relationship is evaluative and hierarchical, extends over time, and has the simultaneous purposes of enhancing the professional functioning of the more junior person(s); monitoring the quality of professional services offered to the clients that she, he, or they see; and serving as a gatekeeper for the particular profession the supervisee seeks to enter. (p. 9)
In clinical supervision, unlike consultation, the supervisor has ultimate responsibility for client welfare (Knapp & VandeCreek, 1997). NASP’s ...
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