Impact of Two Clinical Peer Supervision Models on Practicing School Counselors |
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| Authors: | Lori B. Crutchfield L. Dianne Borders |
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| Affiliation: | Lori B. Crutchfield: is an assistant professor in the Department of Counseling and Clinical Programs at Columbus State University. L. DiAnne Borders is a professor in the Department of Counseling and Educational Development at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Edwin Herr served as the action editor for this article. This article is a summary of the doctoral dissertation study of Lori B. Crutchfield, completed at the Department of Counseling and Educational Development of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro under the direction of L. DiAnne Borders. The study was supported in part by a grant from the Small Grants in the Schools program administered through North Carolina State University and was recognized with the 1996 Association for Counselor Education Supervision Outstanding Dissertation Award. The authors thank Jack Culbreth for his assistance in conducting the interventions and the school counselors for their willingness to participate. |
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| Abstract: | Two forms of clinical peer supervision were provided for a sample of 29 practicing school counselors. Pre- and posttest measures were used to assess the counselors' level of job satisfaction, counseling self-efficacy, and counseling effectiveness (including empathic responding, adaptability and flexibility in counselor response, and client behavior change). The sample was divided into 3 groups (2 treatment and 1 control). Each supervision treatment lasted 9 weeks. None of the analyses of covariance examining treatment effects were significant. However, these individually nonsignificant results showed movement in the hypothesized direction in each instance, indicating small but pervasive effects of treatment. Participants' qualitative session evaluations also supported the helpfulness of clinical peer supervision for school counselors. Implications for future research and the practice of school counselor supervision are discussed. |
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