Multicultural and Social Justice Competence in Clinical Supervision

Abstract

The authors apply the Multicultural and Social Justice Counseling Competencies (Ratts, Singh, Nassar‐McMillan, Butler, & McCullough, 2015) model to clinical supervision, highlighting ways for supervisors to intentionally integrate multicultural and social justice practices into the supervision enterprise. They offer specific implications for supervision practice, including a focus on broaching strategies.

Counselor Education and Supervision: 2019 Annual Review

“…Qualitative studies emphasized the experiences of clinical supervisors and supervisees who engaged in bilingual supervision (Lopez & Torres-Fernandez, 2019) and Spanish-speaking bilingual counselor supervision strategies (Trepal et al, 2019). Conceptual work focused on intersectionality in counseling supervision (Greene & Flasch, 2019), ways for supervisors to intentionally integrate multicultural and social justice practices into the supervision process (Fickling et al, 2019), and intercultural broaching as an intervention in supervision (Jones et al, 2019) to maximize effectiveness.…”

A Conceptual Framework for Incorporating Mentoring in the Clinical Supervision of International Counseling Students

“…This should be a priority as many counseling professionals who provide clinical supervision are masters-level practitioners who have not received formal supervision training (Borders et al, 2014 ). Consistent with these innovations concerning supervision, there have been calls within the mental health profession to increase multicultural competencies (Fickling et al, 2019 ; Lassiter et al, 2008 ; Ratts et al, 2016 ) and the frequency and quality of trainee mentoring (Johnson, 2002 ; Ponce et al, 2005 ).…”

“…Fickling et al ( 2019 ) argued that in order to ensure competent multicultural supervision, supervisors must incorporate The Multicultural and Social Justice Counseling Competencies (MSJCC) model developed by Ratts et al ( 2016 ) to conceptualize clinical supervision. Even though the MSJCC were developed as counseling competencies, Fickling et al ( 2019 ) advocated for the integration of MSJCC into the supervision relationship since supervision is a counseling specialty and a primary avenue for the professional development of counselors-in-training (Borders et al, 2014 ). They opined further that supervisors strive to grow as cultural beings and advocate for social justice and could benefit from using the MSJCC framework with their supervisees.…”

A New Model for Social Justice Supervision

“…Relevant social justice concepts in this model included political activities, sociopolitical conceptualization, subjugated knowledge, promoting agency, deconstruction, perspectives and experiences of supervisees and clients, and mitigating power (Kahn & Monk, 2017). Fickling et al (2019) provided a crosswalk between the MSJCC (Ratts et al, 2016) and supervision, focusing on broaching as an essential skill. In 2017, Bevly et al presented ways to teach social justice in a doctoral supervision course.…”