The Reflective Model of Triadic Supervision as a Means of Fostering Cultural Humility

AbstractOur increasingly diverse world of clinical practice and supervision necessitates clinical supervisors foster supervisees ’ abilities to attend to clients’ cultural contexts, lenses, and frameworks (Patallo in Training and Education in Professional Psychology, 13(3), 227–232, 2019). Equally relevant is promoting clinicians’ own critique of accepted clinical practices (Hardin et al. in American Psychologist, 69( 7), 656–668, 2014). Such a stance is now being referred to as embodying cultural humility. It is emerging as central to culturally responsive and competent clinical practice (Patallo in Training and Education in Professional Psychology, 13(3), 227–232, 2019). Clinical supervision provides one co ntext for fostering cultural humility. Clinical supervision has historically been delivered in one to one or group formats. However, across the last twenty years, triadic supervision has slowly and consistently made inroads as a legitimate and effective form of clinical supervision (Stinchfield et a l. in International Journal for the Advancement of Counselling 32, 225–239, 2007). This paper will describe one such triadic supervision model, the Reflective Model of Triadic Supervision (RMTS, Kleist and Hill in: The reflective model of triadic supervision,2003) as a viable model to foster the development of cultural humility in supervision.
Source: Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy - Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research