Facilitating Effective Triadic Counseling Supervision: An Adapted Model for an Underutilized Supervision Approach

Enhancing Counselor Supervision Through Compassion Fatigue Education

“…The overarching goals of counselor supervision activities are to maintain professional standards and uphold client welfare (Goldberg, Dixon, & Wolf, ). An integral part of client welfare is to ensure that compassion‐fatigued interns are not practicing in the field, thus potentially harming clients.…”

“…Bradley and Ladany () identified five basic counselor supervision activities: support, consultation, counseling, training and instruction, and evaluation. Supervisors should recognize that support is important for interns who may be feeling confused, frustrated, disoriented, anxious, or obsessed with imperfections and failures (Goldberg et al, ; Rønnestad & Skovholt, ). Interns thrive in safe environments created by supervisors in which they can share fears and concerns; explore difficult issues; and work through areas of weakness, confusion, and conflict (Loganbill, Hardy, & Delworth, ).…”

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“…As a result, members of the triads were able to understand the perspectives of the others and did not have to defend or explain themselves. Triadic supervision generally has resulted in insightful, valuable, challenging feedback while supportive to the growth of supervisees Goldberg et al, 2012). Triadic supervisors have noted that feedback between and among the triad often complemented each other and created a dynamic synergy that enhanced learning and fostered a sense of community within the time constraints of a supervision session (Oliver et al, 2010).…”

“…As such, numerous researchers (Borders et al, 2012;Goldberg et al, 2012;Hein & Lawson, 2008;Stinchfield et al, 2010) identified overall structure as a major concern among the majority of supervisors and…”

“…Several promising models of triadic supervision have emerged in the counseling field Overall, several empirical studies Goldberg et al, 2012;Stinchfield, Hill, & Kleist, 2010) have identified a number of advantages, although challenges…”