Considerations with Supervision in Cross-Cultural Settings
Ethics and Boundaries series
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Overview: Supervisors are responsible for several key factors in supervisees’ development and professional skills. Despite consultation and cultural competence being a standard for practitioners, supervisors are limited in how to provide adequate coaching and mentorship for supervisees from minoritized communities, thus exacerbating the power dynamics between supervisor and supervisee relationship.
Learning Objectives:
- Relate the impact of intersectional identities and its trauma on minoritized supervisees during the supervisory process.
- Utilizing the Systems approach to supervision, increase awareness on effective methods when supervising practitioners of color.
- Practice applying ethics to understand countertransference and power dynamics in supervisory relationships.
- Facilitate brave spaces to explore supervisory experiences to reduce biases and microaggressions.
Audience: general
Sheng is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Perinatal Mental Health–Certified therapist. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice from the University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh and a master’s degree in Social Work from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her career spans human services, healthcare, and higher education, with extensive experience addressing mental health, trauma, and systems change. From 2018 to 2023, Sheng served as a professor in the University of Wisconsin–Green Bay’s Social Work Department and continues to teach continuing education courses on ethics, boundaries, diversity, and leadership. Sheng is the Founder and CEO of Us 2 Behavioral Health Care, a multicultural mental health organization committed to advancing equity and access in behavioral health.
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