Category: Supervision Models – Directive
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James H Stark, Jon Bauer & James Papillo, “Directiveness in Clinical Supervision”
This article explores clinician’s attitudes about directiveness and client service and compares the characteristics and beliefs of directive and nondirective supervisors through an analysis of survey responses. Directiveness has three dimensions: decision-making, information-sharing, and task allocation and performance. Directive supervisors were more committed to providing clients with the highest quality of service in a manner…
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Carolyn Grose, “Flies on the Wall or in the Ointment – Some Thoughts on the Role of Clinic Supervisors at Initial Client Interviews”
This article uses the question of whether or not supervisors attend initial client interviews with their students as a lens through which to examine other questions about supervision theory, clinical pedagogy, and professional responsibility. Ultimately, the article concludes that the decision whether to attend client interviews can be one that the supervisor makes on a…
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David F Chavkin, “Am I My Client’s Lawyer: Role Definition and the Clinical Supervisor”
This article is a good example of an early American clinical legal educator’s approach to supervision. The author struggles with the degree to which students should assume autonomy for their work (versus the supervisor), ultimately arguing that students should assume significant autonomy in their work. Two aspects of student learning maximize student autonomy: (1) an…