In this workshop, the facilitator will provide an overview of core stances and principles for supervision under a pluralistic framework that also include intercultural and anti-hegemonic guidelines for supervision in a brief lecture. They will also share challenges from their supervision experiences of interns in a college counseling center. Facilitator will model personal sharing and elaboration of a collaborative relationship with the supervisee emphasizing recognition of systems and nuances regarding supervision goal settings. Attendees will be exposed to group discussions of challenges in pluralistic supervision and will utilize skills modeled by facilitator to generate possible alternatives to navigate these. Application of personal sharing, goal construction, dialectical relational skills, and mutuality will be engaged in group discussion regarding common challenges in initiating a supervisory relationship.
Attendees will navigate how to work with differences between supervisor and supervisee and how this might affect clients through a discussion on how to engage in critical feedback attending to power imbalances and contextual elements within supervision and service delivery.
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Presenter
José Francisco Avilés-Acosta, PsyD (elle/they) is a bilingual, non-binary, Boricua, and Clinical Psychologist licensed in the state of Ohio, U.S.A. They are the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Clinical Services Coordinator and a Staff Psychologist for the University of Cincinnati’s Counseling and Psychological Services. They have spearheaded interdisciplinary training programs focused on cultural responsiveness and the integration of social justice in therapies with marginalized identities. They have presented on working with intercultural non-monogamies and immigrants from an ecosystemic and multidimensional focus. They live in Cincinnati with their nesting partner and two cats.
