Safety and Social Justice in the Supervisory Relationship

Abstract

In our dialogues with each other and our supervisees, we wondered 'are our intentions to promote social justice and have respect for diversity central to their supervision experience with us?' As a result of asking these questions, and valuing the reciprocal process we so believe in, this chapter has been guided by their words and their experiences of us in supervision. Supervisees represented the following demographics: male and female; age, late twenties to early 40s; partnered and single; they identified as Christian from various religious backgrounds; heterosexual and gay; lower to upper middle socio-economic status. The ethnicities of the group included Puerto Rican, Brazilian, Bi-Racial, African-American, Ethiopian, Argentinian, and Caucasian. These supervisees were just completing their master level training in marriage and family therapy. They were given the opportunity in their final course to process the experience of supervision in relation to diversity. The assignment was optional and all supervisees who participated wanted their feedback shared. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved)