ABSTRACT
This chapter offers an introduction to options for supervisors to engage trainees and their clients, accounting for cultural differences at four levels: the personal, interpersonal, institutional, and cultural. This model is offered as an important beginning "toolkit" for effective supervisory training and clinical service delivery. Supervisors interested in developing a trans-culturally sensitive practice will need to examine both process and content information. Culturally skilled supervisors have explored their own cultural backgrounds and assumptions and are in a learning journey regarding how these "cultural scripts" affect their comfort with people who are different. Psychoanalytically trained clinicians will attend to issues of "transference": what the supervisee might project on to the supervisor. Many supervisors trained in traditional therapeutic models will need to learn to demonstrate "emotional literacy" in the therapeutic and the supervisory context. A traditionally trained supervisor might tend to think of the supervisory relationship primarily in terms of individual change models.
