ABSTRACT
This chapter delineates six models of supervision that are frequently used in a community mental health setting. It presents some of the possible administrative considerations and concerns regarding supervision in family service agencies, mental health centers, social service organizations and similar counseling environments. The chapter describes novel supervision models which have called peer supervision carried to the extreme. This model has been used in a community mental health center in the Rocky Mountain region. This model is analyzed and its advantages and disadvantages are explicated. The peer supervision carried to extreme format is viable, but only under certain specific conditions which in the short run may make the model less attractive to community mental health centers. The critical variables appear to be the time spent in organizing, the thought given to individual pairings, and most importantly, the amount and type of training in the supervisory process given to all staff members.
