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Issues in Supervision
and Consultation
INTRODUCTION
• Being a competent professional demands continuing
education and willingness to obtain periodic
supervision when faced with ethical or clinical
dilemmas
• As future practitioners, you can never know all that you
might like to know, nor you can attain all the skills
required to effectively intervene with all client
populations or all types of problems.
• This is where the processes of supervision and
consultation come into play, and why supervision
remains a lifelong process for you throughout your
career
Supervision
• A process that involves a supervisor overseeing the
professional work of a trainee with four major goals: