Supervision of Group Work: A Model to Increase Supervisee Cognitive Complexity

This article describes a model for supervisors of group counselors to use to promote cognitive complexity in their supervisees. Counselor cognitive complexity has been linked to many positive counseling skills, including greater flexibility, empathy, confidence, and client conceptualization. Bloom&#...

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Published in:The Journal for specialists in group work 2004-06, Vol.29 (2), p.159-173
Main Authors: Granello, Darcy Haag, Underfer-Babalis, Jean
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Bloom's taxonomy
Classification
Cognition & reasoning
cognitive complexity
Cognitive Development
Counseling
Counselor Training
Educational Objectives
Empathy
Group Counseling
Group therapy
group work
Intervention
Skill Development
Supervision
Supervisor Supervisee Relationship
Thinking Skills
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Summary:This article describes a model for supervisors of group counselors to use to promote cognitive complexity in their supervisees. Counselor cognitive complexity has been linked to many positive counseling skills, including greater flexibility, empathy, confidence, and client conceptualization. Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives provides a mechanism to help supervisors encourage the growth of cognitive complexity in their supervisees. Applied to supervisees learning group work, this model can help guide supervisors to use interventions that match the cognitive developmental level of the supervisee and push the supervisee toward higher levels of thinking. Examples for interventions that match trainee cognitive complexity and stage of group are included.
ISSN:0193-3922
1549-6295
DOI:10.1080/01933920490439310