Supervisory Roles

The Supervisory Roles

Michael is participating in a two-month internship as a mental health counselor under the tutelage of Janet, the clinical director. Janet utilize the teacher role as the primary role to teach Michael specific concepts and techniques to deal with his insecurities and to handle clients whom unappreciated statements by assigning reading material to address such issues .” (Young & Basham, 2014). Therefore, I would use the conceptualization skill to understand and identify what is occurring when Michael feels insecure in his counseling abilities and identify his pattern of repeating himself saying “I just don’t know what to do.” (Young & Basham, 2014) Although, the teacher role is the primary role, Janet chose to implement

the counselor role to aid Michael in focusing on his personality when dealing with his discomfort as he analyzes a client’s statement (Young & Basham, 2014). This is essential as Michael deals with his insecurity in his counseling skills and abilities by confronting these issues affecting his ability to perform as a mental health counselor. However, I would use intervention skills to allow Michael to realize what I observe as the supervisor as he displays his discomfort with the client’s statement and his insecurity of his counseling abilities (Young & Basham, 2014).
Even though, I have used two supervisor roles, there is a need for utilization of the consultant role (Young & Basham, 2014). The consultant role will provide identification of different interventions for the taped counseling session on the different models for Michael to consider or address relating to the taped section he requested supervision for a client (Young & Basham, 2014). Again, using intervention skills allow Michael to perceive what he is doing or how he is conducting his taped interview leading to the realization and grasping of what I as the supervisor observed; therefore, creating a need for consultation between the supervisor and Michael (Young & Basham, 2014)
The supervisor’s role as a consultant provided constructive feedback to Michael to allow him to visualize a counseling session using Janet’s advice (Young & Basham, 2014). Michael was receptive and incorporated Janet’s advice into his counseling sections. Once again, intervention skills is vital in an internship program and provided an example and used by Michael as he presented his taped interview to Janet for review and provide feedback on providing effective counseling service to a client (Young & Basham, 2014).