Interventions for Anti-Oppressive Clinical Supervision Navigating Critical Praxis

About the Editors xiii

List of Contributors xv

Acknowledgments xix

Book Overview xx

Introduction xxii

1 Interventions for Anti-Oppressive Clinical Supervision: Navigating Critical Praxis 1

HARVEY CHARLES PETERS AND MELISSA LUKE

2 Developing Critical Consciousness Through Critical Reflexivity 24

DEVIKA DIBYA CHOUDHURI, JOSHUA N. HOOK, AH RAM LEE, YANHONG LIU, MELISSA LUKE, HARVEY CHARLES PETERS, ELYSSA B. SMITH, AND C. EDWARD WATKINS, JR.

Intervention Title: Flip the Internalized Supervisory Script for Learned Agency 24

Intervention Title: Creating Circle: Journey of Critical Reflexivity 29

Intervention Title: A Narrative Supervision Intervention Using Letter Writing 35

Intervention Title: Centering Critical Reflexivity in Trauma-Focused Supervision 40

Intervention Title: Using the Cultural Genogram to Promote Cultural Self-Awareness 47

3 Overcoming Comfort and Fragility Through Unlearning Privilege and Domination 52

THOMAS KILLIAN, MELISSA LUKE, KRISTA M. MALOTT, TINA R. PAONE, HARVEY CHARLES PETERS, MADISON ROWOHLT, JORDAN SHANNON, C. EDWARD WATKINS, JR., AND L. XOCHITL VALLEJOS

Intervention Title: Love It-Hate It: Establishing Intra-and Inter-Personal Processes to Overcome Comfort and Fragility and Unlearn Privilege and Domination in Triadic Supervision 52

Intervention Title: Incorporating Cultural Humility Guidelines, Supervisee Version, Into the Supervision Relationship 58

Intervention Title: Sociocultural Fragility Mapping 63

Intervention Title: Being Real: Giving Space to Process Internalized Oppression and Privilege in Supervision 68

Intervention Title: Unveiling Dominant Culture 73

4 Centering the Margins Through Empowerment and Liberation 78

CLARK D. AUSLOOS, CIRLEEN DEBLAERE, KIRSIS A. DIPRE, DIANA GALLARDO, ARPANA G. INMAN, MELISSA LUKE, KELLY MOORE, HARVEY CHARLES PETERS, STACY A. PINTO AND DAVID P. RIVERA

Intervention Title: Gnat in the Chat: Centering Clients and Supervisees Through Empowerment and Liberation 78

Intervention Title: Reflective Supervision: Centering Clients and Supervisees Through Empowerment and Liberation 84

Intervention Title: Powerlines: Elucidating Dynamics of Privilege and Oppression to Inform Empowerment and Liberation 91

Intervention Title: Queering Socratic Questioning: Using Language for Exploration and Liberation 96

Intervention Title: Play, Pause, Rewind: Centering the Margins Through Empowerment and Liberation 102

5 Wellness and Self-Care Through Acts of Compassion and Vigilance 107

KATIE GAMBY, MELISSA LUKE, JEFF MOE, DILANI PERERA, HARVEY CHARLES PETERS, AND LAURA WOOD

Intervention Title: Wellness and Self-Care Plan: A Practice of Accountability and Anti-Oppression 107

Intervention Title: Compassion Building Toward Self and Other: IFS and Drama Therapy in Action 112

Intervention Title: Uncovering the Depths: Enhancing Compassion and Vigilance Through Guided Imagery 117

Intervention Title: Reclaiming Wellness: Centering Intersectional Identities and Coping in Self-Care 122

Intervention Title: Radical Healing and Hope Within Clinical Supervision 127

6 Co-Constructing a Brave Space Through Relationships and Community 132

JANE E. ATIENO OKECH, MINA ATTIA, KENYA G. BLEDSOE, BAGMI DAS, MARY DERAEDT, MELISSA LUKE, HARVEY CHARLES PETERS, DEBORAH RUBEL, AND JAIMIE STICKL HAUGEN

Intervention Title: Props in the Brave Space Box 132

Intervention Title: Using Anonymous Polling to Co-Construct Brave Spaces in Anti-Oppressive Online Group Supervision 138

Intervention Title: The Brave Space Zine 143

Intervention Title: Co-Creation Supervision in the Sand 148

Intervention Title: Framing Brave Spaces Through Collage Art: A Perspective on Counseling Supervision 153

Through Stakeholder Investment 160

CASEY BARRIO MINTON, LINDSEY M. BELL, THEODORE R. BURNES, KRISTOPHER GOODRICH, DAN LI, YANHONG LIU, MELISSA LUKE, HARVEY CHARLES PETERS, AND MARIA REYNA

Intervention Title: A Deliberate Practice Intervention to Develop Authoritative and Facilitative Skills 160

Intervention Title: The Small Experiment Framework (SEF) 165

Intervention Title: Developing and Assessing Anti-Oppressive Goals: A Supervision of Group Work Intervention 170

Intervention Title: Supervisor Assessment from an Anti-Oppression Framework 175

Intervention Title: The Gestalt Dialogue Between the “Old” and “New” Selves: An Expressive Arts-Based Anti-Oppressive Supervision Intervention 180

8 Challenging and Disrupting Oppression Through Broaching and Accountability 185

SUSAN BRANCO MICHAEL M. GALE CONNIE T. JONES KELLY M. KING MELISSA LUKE, HARVEY CHARLES PETERS, AND MELANIE M. WILCOX

Intervention Title: Oppression Impact and Redress Plan 185

Intervention Title: Group Supervision Broaching Presentations and Critical Analysis 191

Intervention Title: The Broaching Cultural Genogram: An Equitable and Empowering Supervisory Intervention 196

Intervention Title: Broaching and Accountability Through the Use of Anti-Oppressive-Interpersonal Process Recall (AO-IPR) 201

Intervention Title: Broaching and Accountability: Practicing and Modeling Through a Real-Play 206

9 Identifying and Addressing Barriers Through Resistance and Opposition 210

PEGGY L. CEBALLOS, PHILIPPA CHIN KARINA CRESCINI, MELISSA J. FICKLING, NATOYA HASKINS, KAVITA KHARA, MELISSA LUKE, AND HARVEY CHARLES PETERS

Intervention Title: Supporting the Identification and Addressing of Barriers: Supervisors’ Intentional Resistance and Opposition (SIAB-SIRO) 210

Intervention Title: Leveraging Reflexive Exploration to Build Anti-Oppressive Praxis: Integrating Narrative and Working Cross-Cultural Approaches 215

Intervention Title: Resisting Oppression by Exploring Identities and Using Supervision Agreements to Co-Create the Supervision Space 220

Intervention Title: Recognizing and Resisting Oppression 225

Intervention Title: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Anti-Oppression Supervision Case Audit 230

10 Socioecological Advocacy and Activism Through Collective Action 235

JANICE A. BYRD-BADJIE, TAHANI DARI, DARIUS A. GREEN, SRAVYA GUMMALURI, MELISSA LUKE, SYLVIA NASSAR, HARVEY CHARLES

PETERS, ROCHELE ROYSTER, AND CASSANDRA A. STORLIE

Intervention Title: Cultivating a Professional Identity and Practice of Advocacy and Activism 235

Intervention Title: Utilizing Relational Cultural Theory (RCT) and Socioecological Theory (SET) to Develop a Holistic Conceptualization of Advocacy in Action 241

Intervention Title: Integrating Arts-Based Supervision for Intersectional Cultural Insight and Socioecological Advocacy 247

Intervention Title: Supervision for Mental Health Practitioner Activist Self-Efficacy and Praxis 252

Intervention Title: Cultivating a Professional Identity and Practice of Advocacy 257

11 Redistributing Social, Cultural, and Political Capital Through Access and Opportunity 263

REHMAN ABDULREHMAN, RAWAN ATARI-KHAN, JANICE A. BYRD-BADJIE, DEEPIKA RAJU NANTHA KUMAR, MELISSA LUKE, HARVEY CHARLES PETERS, ALEX L. PIETERSE, AHMAD RASHAD WASHINGTON, AND MONNICA T. WILLIAMS

Intervention Title: Examining Social, Cultural, and Political Capital Within Group Supervision 263

Intervention Title: Engaging Frantz Fanon and Exploring His Relevance to Counselor Education 268

Activity Title: Integrating Structural Competencies to Redistribute Capital in the Supervisory Relationship 273

Intervention Title: Celebrate Everything: A Conversation About Equity in Federal Holidays 279

Intervention Title: What’s Your Capital?: Utilizing Community Cultural Wealth as a Strengths-Based Framework to Guide Supervisors and Counselors-in-Training 286

12 Anti-Oppressive Supervision: A Personal and Professional Call to Action 292

HARVEY CHARLES PETERS AND MELISSA LUKE

References 298

Index 328

Biography

Harvey Charles Peters, PhD, NCC, is an associate professor in the Department of Counseling at Montclair State University.

Melissa Luke, PhD, LMHC, NCC, ACS is a dean’s professor in the unit of Counseling and Human Services at Syracuse University.

“Peters and Luke have transcended layers of colonization and oppression to name the oppressive structures within our pedagogical traditions, articulating anti-oppression as a transtheoretical means of re-organizing counselor supervision. In this book, they articulate the Anti-Oppression Supervision Model (AOSM) as the foundation of this new supervisory praxis, and then, with each chapter addressing one tenet of the AOSM, they present various supervisor interventions that meet that tenet. This book represents a new wave of anti-oppression in counseling; as new clinicians are trained using anti-oppression, it will be easier for them to practice anti-oppression in their counseling and in their communities. We can now become the change we have been waiting for.”

Dr. Colette T. Dollarhide, professor, retired at Ohio State University.

“This essential book is a transformative read for clinical supervisors dedicated to anti-oppression work. The authors expertly intertwine the concepts of supervision and social justice, delivering insights that are both enlightening and actionable. Through robust theoretical frameworks, this text empowers future clinical supervisors with the essential skills to effectively support counselors who work with clients facing oppression. A powerful resource for anyone committed to fostering social change in their practice!”

Manivong J. Ratts, PhD, LMHC, LPC, NCC, is a professor of counseling at Seattle University.

“I am grateful to see this this text, as it is an important advancement in defining anti-oppressive practices in supervision. The editors and authors have provided key practical next steps so mental health professionals serving in supervisory roles can create more equitable, just, and liberatory environments.”

Anneliese Singh, PhD, LPC, is the chief diversity officer and professor at Tulane University.

“This book remains a resounding answer to the complicated dilemma of unbinding from oppression and power hierarchies that still unfortunately underlie supervision practices. In vexing sociopolitical times facing multiple health disciplines, this long-awaited collection of voices is a vision of the future of supervision, but more importantly, it is the hope we need to sustain us.”

Christian D. Chan, PhD, NCC, is an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro