ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses supervisor and supervisee development. If a discussion of clinical supervisor development holds meaning for experienced or prospective supervisors, in fact and almost inexorably, develop in multiple ways, including their knowledge of counseling and psychotherapy, their skill in providing clinical supervision, and their growth as individuals in the role of clinical supervisor. With or without a commonly accepted model of clinical supervisor development, there are common assumptions about important features of such a model. Allowing for the lack of preponderant consensus about a model of supervisor development, some analysts of has offered ideas that enhance understanding of supervisor development. The practice of psychotherapy has evolved toward specialization and tactical orientations, such as the treatment of eating disorders or sexual compulsivity or couples’ therapy. The fledgling discipline included applications of longstanding ideas, such as developmental thinking being applied to clinical supervision and a spreading and specifically tactical orientation.
