What Makes A Good Supervisor?
What Makes A Good Supervisor?
Good (Or Rather Helpful)
Self aware
Explicit about the role of supervisor and supervisee
Understands and names power & privilege
Healthy boundaries
Sensitive and responds to difference
Understands their limitations and refers out or does not give feedback in an area they are not adequately trained in
Provides constructive feedback
Accepts constructive feedback from supervisee
Invested in your growth and development
Supportive
Non judgemental
Professional humility
Cultural humility
Accountability to the social work profession and self
Honest
Bad (Or Rather Unhelpful)
Abuses power
Judges and belittles supervisee
Therapizes supervisee (boundaries blur)
Talks about themselves constantly
Passive aggressive communication
Not committed to supervisee’s growth and goals
Cancels supervision often
Consistently late over 5-10 minutes, often without notice
What Makes A Good Supervisee?
Good (Or Rather Helpful)
Awareness:
Knowing what you don’t know
Knowing what you do know
Professional humility
Cultural humility
Accountability to the social work profession and self
Honest
Self aware
Healthy boundaries
Provides constructive feedback when things aren’t working
Accepts constructive feedback from supervisor
Understands their limitations and refer clients out or seeks supervision and training in areas they are not adequately trained in
Bad (Or Rather Unhelpful)
Entitlement
Blames others without seeing their own role in issues
Lack of awareness
Passive aggressive communication
Not committed and engaged to supervision
Cancels supervision often
Consistently late over 5-10 minutes, often without notice
Consider
Fit and alliance between supervisor and supervisee
Personality (extrovert, introvert, highly sensitive, empathic, etc.)
Cultural values and norms
Specializing vs. being a generalist
Theoretical orientation and whether you want someone of the same orientation or you want to learn a new orientation