MULTICULTURAL ASPECTS OF SUPERVISION: CONSIDERATIONS FOR SOUTH AFRICAN SUPERVISORS IN THE HELPING PROFESSIONS
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MULTICULTURAL ASPECTS OF SUPERVISION IN POST-APARTHEID SOUTHAFRICA
Clinical supervision in psychology and social work is challenged with addressing the various
cultural, social and political factors that affect therapeutic and supervisory relationships. In the
context of present-day South Africa with its emphasis on recruiting supervisees into the helping
professions from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds, questions of race, ethnicity and culture in
clinical supervision have become of considerable importance. This paper examines the literature
pertinent to supervision and presents a theoretical framework for conceptualising the
multicultural development of supervisors and supervisees with a specific emphasis on the South
African context. It highlights some of the potential problems that might arise in supervisory
relationships in which the supervisor and supervisee are racially disparate and outlines
recommendations for clinicians to consider in their practice. Most of the research on inter-racial
clinical supervision has been conducted in the United States and other countries where
multiculturalism is part of the national landscape. This article uses this international literature and
applies it to the present post-apartheid contex
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