A Content Analysis of 10 Years of Clinical Supervision Articles in Counseling

Abstract

This content analysis follows Borders's (2005) review of counseling supervision literature and includes 184 counselor supervision articles published over the past 10 years. Articles were coded as representing 1 of 3 research types or 1 of 3 conceptual types. Articles were then analyzed for main topics producing 11 topic categories.

Science of Learning: Evidence‐Based Teaching in the Clinical Supervision Classroom

“…In fact, Barrio Minton et al (2014) did not find a single article on teaching supervision in counseling journals. Bernard and Luke (2015) reported similar results in their 10-year review of clinical supervision articles; they highlighted the lack of attention to pedagogical methods for supervisor education. Researchers of supervisor development (e.g., Borders, Welfare, Sackett, & Cashwell, 2017;Gazzola, DeStefano, Thériault, & Audet, 2013;Gosselin, Barker, Kogan, Pomerleau, & Pitre d'loro, 2015;Watkins, 2017) have voiced the same conclusion.…”

What we know and do not know about supervision in school psychology: A systematic mapping and review of the literature between 2000 and 2017

“…Interest in supervision practice and research has grown in recent years in psychology and related helping professions such as nursing and social work (Bernard & Luke, ; Goodyear et al, ). For example, American Psychological Association () recently developed Guidelines for Clinical Supervision in Health Service Psychology, delineating seven competency domains: Supervisor competence, diversity, supervisory relationship, professionalism, assessment/evaluation/feedback, problems of professional competence, and ethical, legal, and regulatory codes.…”

In the Spirit of What Might Be Lost: Troubling the Boundaries of Good Fit

“…Counselor educators dominate CES authorship. They prefer to publish in CES (Barrio Minton, Fernando, & Ray, ; Bernard & Luke, ) and also dominate the authorship of its articles, usually working with multiple authors (Crockett et al, ). Not all counselor educators are publishing, however.…”

“…The literature on supervision has similar limitations. In a recent content analysis of 10 years of clinical supervision articles, Bernard and Luke () found the literature flush with articles describing supervision processes without pedagogical ones explaining how to teach them. Researchers should develop a deep structure of learning to ground their counselor education and supervision manuscripts.…”