Evaluating Supervisees’ Systemic Core Competencies with Instruments*

Edited by Thomas C. Todd and Cheryl L. Storm. © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Published 2014 by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. This resource succinctly describes and critiques the most common assessment instruments used in systemic supervision to evaluate supervisees’ competencies. The first section focuses on measures of individual counseling skills that have been used in creative ways to assess systemic therapist development. The second section covers instruments developed to specifically assess systemic supervisees trained as couple, marriage, and family therapists. Some of the instruments were developed specifically for use by supervisors. Together, they offer systemic supervisors a catalogue of instruments to select from when methods for evaluation are within their discretion and important background information about an instrument when an educational or training program may be requiring a particular instrument in supervision. (See Chapter 19 in the accompanying book for the role of instruments within the evaluation process.) Many of these instruments have been in used in research to help supervisors identify key aspects to focus on in supervision and in therapy. Chapter 14 in the accompanying book reviews this research. —Editors’ introduction