The Influence of Diversity in Clinical Supervision: A Framework for Reflective Conversations and

This article introduces an approach to supervision that enhances the supervisor's cultural responsiveness and attention to the influence of diversity. Organized around postmodern and constructivist perspectives, the conceptual intersections of solution-focused and narrative approaches set the stage for a supervisory process characterized by reflective conversations and questions, or RCQ. This orientation highlights the multiplicity, contextuality, and active co-construction of meaning in the supervisory conversation aimed at helping supervisees to become more critical, intentional, reflexive, and socially just in their work. We describe strategies to identify the supervisee's personal qualities and skills that could be accessed in order to foster competent practice. An actual supervision case is used to illustrate this framework.