“Culturally Responsive Counselor Supervision“

Saturday, October 11, 2014 at the SACES conference in Birmingham, Alabama

East Meeting Room M

50 Minute Content Session Presented by Veronica Motley

Abstract
Culturally competent clinical supervision is essential to counselor training. For counselors working with those living with HIV/AIDS, it can provide opportunities to explore their own attitudes about and relationship to chronic illness and understand the cultural and social context in which they exist. This interactive workshop will provide counselor supervisors guidelines for addressing the cultural implications of HIV/AIDS with counselors-in-training. A 4-stage developmental model designed to increase cultural responsiveness in supervisors will be introduced. Learning objectives include summarizing the rationale behind providing culturally-responsive supervision, increasing awareness of the importance of cultural dialogue in supervisory practice, and articulating two or more strategies that can improve cultural responsiveness in clinical supervision.”