Supervision Essentials for the Integrative Developmental Model

Some clinicians use a simple master-apprentice approach to supervision; others utilize tools from their preferred model of psychotherapy. In this warm and engaging text, Brian W. McNeil and Cal D. Stoltenberg offer supervisors and trainees a different approach: their integrated developmental model of supervision. This empirically-tested model incorporates elements of cognitive models, schema development, skill development, interpersonal influence, and social intelligence alongside models of human development to create a truly eclectic and well-regarded approach to clinical supervision.

The authors describe a proven supervisory model of tracking therapists’ development across all skill levels and theoretical orientations. Students and trainees are evaluated across domains including intervention skills competence, assessment techniques, client conceptualization, individual differences, theoretical orientation, treatment plans and goals, and professional ethics. The authors provide clear guidelines for supervisee progression, from the initial levels--highly motivated trainees who are highly dependent on the supervisor--to more advanced supervisees, who are better attuned to individual differences in clients and seek more sophisticated clinical responses, all the way to master level therapists. The book also includes transcripts and analyses of the authors’ supervisory sessions with real trainees, including those documented in their companion DVD, The Integrative Developmental Model of Supervision.

Brian McNeill received his PhD in 1984 from Texas Tech University in counseling psychology, and is currently a professor and codirector of the Pacific Northwest Center for Mestizo and Indigenous Research and Outreach at Washington State University. He has served as director of doctoral training for the APA accredited programs in counseling psychology at the University of Kansas and Washington State University. He is the coauthor with Cal D. Stoltenberg of IDM Supervision: An Integrative Developmental Model for Supervising Counselors and Therapists (2010). His research interests and areas of expertise include Chicana/o Latina/o psychology, clinical supervision, recruitment and retention of culturally diverse students in professional psychology, and investigations of Latina/o spiritual healing traditions. Dr. McNeill is a licensed psychologist in the states of Washington and Idaho where he practices and consults.

Cal D. Stoltenberg received his PhD in counseling psychology from the University of Iowa in 1981, and is currently David Ross Boyd Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Oklahoma. He has served as department chair and as the director of training for the Counseling Psychology Program and Community Counseling Program at the University of Oklahoma for nearly 20 years. He is the coauthor with Brian McNeill of IDM Supervision: An Integrative Developmental Model for Supervising Counselors and Therapists (2010). His research interests include supervision and training, couples and family issues, and multicultural issues. Dr. Stoltenberg is a licensed psychologist, health services provider in Oklahoma.