ABSTRACT
A supervisor should have clear thoughts about how to define and, therefore, to recognize an effective therapist. The history of counseling and psychotherapy has exhibited numerous strengths and a few glaring weaknesses. One of the weaknesses is that it has invested relatively little effort in investigating, understanding, and promoting highly effective counselors and psychotherapists and goal-setting for individual practitioners and the graduate programs that prepare them for practice. The characteristics of effective mental health care clinicians are displayed in clinical judgment. Clinical supervisors examine and evaluate the clinical judgment of their supervisees. The importance of clinical supervisors in developing professional, accountable clinical judgment in their supervisees cannot be overestimated. One essential characteristic of professionally accountable clinical judgment is that it emerges from gathering clinically relevant information from and about a client.
