4 research outputs found
Turtle Island: Working with Indigenous Grandparents and their Grandchildren in Group Counseling
Turtle Island is a culturally grounded psycho-educational group program for Indigenous early adolescents and their grandparents. It is designed to increase the inter-personal connection between Indigenous grandparents and grandchildren, facilitate the transmission of tribal/cultural values to future generations, improve a historically significant support system for Indigenous youth, and enhance greater awareness and feelings of connections with Nature. The authors present activities and processes to support clinicians and their consideration for working with Indigenous clients. All phases of implementation, from participant and facilitator recruitment to the concluding honoring feast, as well as group activities, process questions, and accompanying projects, are described in detail
Best Practices in Clinical Supervision: Evolution of a Counseling Specialty
A number of developments have marked the evolution of clinical supervision as a separate specialty since publication of the Standards for Counseling Supervisors in 1990, including accreditation and counselor licensure standards, supervisor credentials, and research on supervision practice and supervisor training, nationally and internationally. Such developments culminated in the development of a statement of Supervision Best Practices Guidelines. The Guidelines are described, followed by suggestions for their implementation and further evolution through research
The Relationship of Supervisory Styles to Satisfaction With Supervision and the Perceived SelfâEfficacy of Master\u27sâLevel Counseling Students
The purpose of this study was to determine whether supervisors\u27 supervisory styles are related to master\u27s-level counseling students\u27 satisfaction with supervision and their perceived self-efficacy. Multiple regression analyses of data obtained for 82 participants indicated that particular supervisory styles were significant predictors of supervisees\u27 satisfaction with supervision and perceived self-efficacy. Findings can be used to enhance the training of supervisors
Getting to the point: Using research meetings and the inverted triangle visual to develop a dissertation research question
This article contributes to the research training environment literature by presenting a method to guide the development of a dissertation research question. The method relies on 2 essential components: (a) informal doctoral student research team meetings to provide a mentoring environment in which conversation and discussion about dissertation questions takes place and (b) an inverted triangle visual to identify specific steps in the question-development process. The first authorâs experience and that of 3 other participants with this method are chronicled to illustrate its efficacy