Chapter One
A Historical Review of Supervision

A first step toward the recognition of clinical supervision as a profession in its own right and, in turn, toward the consistent provision of high quality supervision in treatment facilities is to establish a clear, succinct, comprehensive, broadly applicable definition of supervision. There seem to be as many definitions as there are fields in which clinical supervision is practiced perhaps even as many as there are people writing about supervision. On the basis of the following brief survey of some definitions employed by the mental health professions as well as by society as a whole, I will formulate a definition for the substance abuse field in the following chapter.

TRADITIONAL DEFINITIONS
The term supervisor has its roots in Latin; it means "looks over." It was originally applied to the master of a group of ... read full excerpt from Clinical Supervision in Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counseling: Principles, Models, Methods, Revised Edition ebook