Supervisory Counselor

Counselors strive to assist the education and training of other counselors by fostering a meaningful professional relationship in which counselors may guide and educate others on the ethics and practices of the discipline (ACA, 2014; CRCC, 2017). Supervisory counselors are proficient in the laws and ethics of the discipline and are skilled in working with multicultural and diverse populations as to inform the deficit of the supervisee and encourage growth (CRCC, 2017). Supervisory counselors maintain a duty to client welfare first and foremost, but also to supervisees’ welfare and growth. Paul writes of the importance of keeping brothers and sisters accountable in Galatians 6: “Brothers and sisters, if someone is overtaken in any wrongdoing,

As a result, supervisors continually monitor the services of the supervisees and meet regularly with the supervisees to ensure ethical and appropriate practices (ACA, 2014). Supervisors make supervisees aware of client rights of confidentiality and protection of client privacy and inform clients on the limits of confidentiality as it pertains to supervision (CRCC, 2017). Supervisors or supervisees provide clients with of the name and credentials of their supervisor as well as inform clients of the nature of their supervised relationship and the reason for supervision (AMHCA, 2015). Counselors respect clients’ right to withdraw from counseling in light of

The parameters of Standard 1.4a are applied in the scenario of supervision, even if the supervisor is not the one counseling the individual. 7.3 b Supervisee/Supervisor Relationship Supervisors are prohibited from engaging sexual or romantic relationships with their supervisees, in person or through technology (ACA, 2014). Furthermore, supervisors do not condone sexual harassment of supervisees. Supervisors are aware of the power differential in their relationship and do not engage in relationships or behaviors that jeopardizes the supervisory relationship. Supervisors are not prohibited from engaging in sexual or romantic relationships with former supervisees, but prior to entering such relationship, both parties consider the risks of engaging in some form of intimate relationships (CRCC, 2017). Supervisors do not serve as counselors to current supervisees and consider the risks and benefits of serving as counselor to former supervisees (ACA, 2014, CRCC, 2017). If extending the boundaries of the relationship, supervisors consider the potential risk and benefit prior to the extension, similar to those taken when extending boundaries with clients (CRCC, 2017). Extensions include, and are not limited to, attending a formal