Essential knowledge and skills for effective clinical supervision in rehabilitation counseling

This study begins the inductive process of identifying the supervisory know ledge and skills that are necessary for effective field based clinical supe rvision of rehabilitation counselors. A total of 774 randomly selected cert ified rehabilitation counselors (CRCs) completed the Rehabilitation Counsel ing Supervision inventory, an instrument developed via a Delphi method spec ifically fur this investigation. principal components analysis of their res ponses yielded 6 supervisory knowledge and skill domains essential for effe ctive field-based supervision of rehabilitation counselors. The results of this study empirically demonstrate that there is a substantial body of supe rvisory knowledge and skills that CRCs perceived to be important for effect ive field-based supervision of rehabilitation counselors.