ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the commitment to assist clinical supervisors in their needed pursuit of developing a philosophy of clinical supervision. It suggests that successful clinical experience, developing and claiming a clinical supervisor identity, and persistently refining supervisory competencies are necessary and foundational components of a philosophy of clinical supervision. The concerns of novice clinical supervisors only roughly parallel the concerns of those who study and write about clinical supervision. Commonly, from the view of those who study clinical supervision, the list of epistemological concerns that inhere in clinical supervision appear in somewhat more systematic forms than those of novice clinical supervisors. Presumably, mental health clinicians who make the transition into the role of clinical supervisor recognize that they hold the considerable potential of shaping the professional development and functioning of those whom they supervise. The chapter shows that successful clinical experience, supervisor identity, and supervisory competence are bases on which clinical supervisors construct their role as clinical supervisors.
