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The Self-Model of Humanistic Supervision

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The Self-Model of Humanistic Supervision (SMHS) entails the integration of humanist and postmodern epistemology and ontology into a model of clinical supervision. The SMHS offers five core-selves, five enactors of self, and the cyclical process of enactment as a working framework for supervisors and counselor educators. This model provides supervisors with a culturally responsive, holistic, co-constructed, and relational way to assist supervisees in personal and professional growth.

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Peters, H.C., Rivas, M. The Self-Model of Humanistic Supervision. Int J Adv Counselling 40, 237–254 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10447-018-9323-5

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