Professional Disclosure Statement
Diandra J. Prescod is an Associate Professor at the University of Connecticut. She received her Ph.D. in Counselor Education and Supervision from the University of Central Florida. Diandra is a Licensed Professional Counselor (Commonwealth of Pennsylvania), National Certified Counselor, and Approved Clinical Supervisor. She is a member of the American Counseling Association as well as several national and state divisions of mental health counseling and counselor education and supervision.
Diandra has experience in both career and mental health counseling. This training and experience includes clients in age ranges from adolescence through adulthood in a variety of therapeutic settings, to include community mental health clinics and intensive outpatient programs. This has afforded her the opportunity to work with a variety of multicultural clients and client issues, to include addictions, mental illness, crisis intervention, interpersonal dynamics, parenting, self-esteem work, and stress management. She can provide supervision in these general areas.
Diandra’s training in supervision includes current coursework and supervised supervision in her doctoral program. This is her third experience providing supervision of practicing mental health counselors.
Diandra approaches supervision from a collaborative framework. The general areas that receive attention in supervision include the supervisee’s professional behaviors, counseling skills, personal awareness, and client/case conceptualization. Supervisory roles assumed by Diandra include teacher, evaluator, consultant, and counselor. She follows a constructivist and developmental approach, with an emphasis on reflection, to supervision primarily using the teacher role with novice supervisees and consultation with more experienced supervisees. Audio and videotapes, live observation, Interpersonal Process Recall, and case report are all utilized in the supervision process. She considers intentionality and reflection to be paramount in any work of a counselor. As such, she works with supervisees to become aware of their thoughts and feelings that occur with respect to the counseling relationship and process. Facilitating this awareness, including attention to the motivation behind interventions, is an important aspect of her work.
Diandra addresses the issue of evaluation as a fundamental component of supervision. She believes that evaluation is an ongoing process that is linked to care for the client, as well as the goals of the supervisee. All evaluation criteria are introduced at the beginning of the supervisory relationship, serve as training objectives, and are used throughout the process as a basis for ongoing feedback. Whereas evaluation and feedback are embedded throughout the supervision process, random and regular written feedback that addresses the supervisee’s progress is important. In the academic setting, this will occur at the mid-point and end of the semester (at a minimum). Supervisees are asked to provide their own self-evaluation as well. Supervisees are also asked to evaluate Diandra as well as the overall supervision process.
Diandra is aware of the responsibility she has to the supervisee and the clients in the supervisee’s care. The general limits of confidentiality and privileged communication are when harm to self or others is clear and imminent, when child abuse, elderly abuse or abuse of persons with disabilities is suspected, or if court proceedings compel the supervisor to testify. Within the academic setting, if there is compelling evidence that the supervisee is impaired or unable to provide competent counseling services, appropriate interventions will be enacted (which may range from slowing a supervisee’s progress in the program to dismissal from the program). In such instances, faculty members are informed and the procedures established by the program are initiated. Diandra carries liability insurance and encourages his supervisees to carry insurance as well.
Diandra understands the value and importance of maintaining and enhancing professional skills. Therefore, frequently throughout the semester she may participate in supervision of her supervision. If this occurs, Diandra will inform supervisees through informed consent as to the purpose of her own supervision and that their actions may be discussed with her supervisor.
No fees are charged to any supervisee if supervision occurs within the academic setting and as part of the supervisee’s training. For other supervisees, fees charged reflect the community standard and the supervisee’s ability to pay.
Supervisees are provided with Diandra’s office address, email address, and office and mobile phone numbers. Supervisees are asked to call Diandra on her mobile if an emergency occurs after hours. Diandra also provides each supervisee with the names and phone numbers of agencies that respond to crisis situations.
Diandra follows both the ACA and the NBCC Code of Ethics and the Standards for the Ethical Practice of Clinical Supervision.
Diandra J. Prescod is an Associate Professor at the University of Connecticut. She received her Ph.D. in Counselor Education and Supervision from the University of Central Florida. Diandra is a Licensed Professional Counselor (Commonwealth of Pennsylvania), National Certified Counselor, and Approved Clinical Supervisor. She is a member of the American Counseling Association as well as several national and state divisions of mental health counseling and counselor education and supervision.
Diandra has experience in both career and mental health counseling. This training and experience includes clients in age ranges from adolescence through adulthood in a variety of therapeutic settings, to include community mental health clinics and intensive outpatient programs. This has afforded her the opportunity to work with a variety of multicultural clients and client issues, to include addictions, mental illness, crisis intervention, interpersonal dynamics, parenting, self-esteem work, and stress management. She can provide supervision in these general areas.
Diandra’s training in supervision includes current coursework and supervised supervision in her doctoral program. This is her third experience providing supervision of practicing mental health counselors.
Diandra approaches supervision from a collaborative framework. The general areas that receive attention in supervision include the supervisee’s professional behaviors, counseling skills, personal awareness, and client/case conceptualization. Supervisory roles assumed by Diandra include teacher, evaluator, consultant, and counselor. She follows a constructivist and developmental approach, with an emphasis on reflection, to supervision primarily using the teacher role with novice supervisees and consultation with more experienced supervisees. Audio and videotapes, live observation, Interpersonal Process Recall, and case report are all utilized in the supervision process. She considers intentionality and reflection to be paramount in any work of a counselor. As such, she works with supervisees to become aware of their thoughts and feelings that occur with respect to the counseling relationship and process. Facilitating this awareness, including attention to the motivation behind interventions, is an important aspect of her work.
Diandra addresses the issue of evaluation as a fundamental component of supervision. She believes that evaluation is an ongoing process that is linked to care for the client, as well as the goals of the supervisee. All evaluation criteria are introduced at the beginning of the supervisory relationship, serve as training objectives, and are used throughout the process as a basis for ongoing feedback. Whereas evaluation and feedback are embedded throughout the supervision process, random and regular written feedback that addresses the supervisee’s progress is important. In the academic setting, this will occur at the mid-point and end of the semester (at a minimum). Supervisees are asked to provide their own self-evaluation as well. Supervisees are also asked to evaluate Diandra as well as the overall supervision process.
Diandra is aware of the responsibility she has to the supervisee and the clients in the supervisee’s care. The general limits of confidentiality and privileged communication are when harm to self or others is clear and imminent, when child abuse, elderly abuse or abuse of persons with disabilities is suspected, or if court proceedings compel the supervisor to testify. Within the academic setting, if there is compelling evidence that the supervisee is impaired or unable to provide competent counseling services, appropriate interventions will be enacted (which may range from slowing a supervisee’s progress in the program to dismissal from the program). In such instances, faculty members are informed and the procedures established by the program are initiated. Diandra carries liability insurance and encourages his supervisees to carry insurance as well.
Diandra understands the value and importance of maintaining and enhancing professional skills. Therefore, frequently throughout the semester she may participate in supervision of her supervision. If this occurs, Diandra will inform supervisees through informed consent as to the purpose of her own supervision and that their actions may be discussed with her supervisor.
No fees are charged to any supervisee if supervision occurs within the academic setting and as part of the supervisee’s training. For other supervisees, fees charged reflect the community standard and the supervisee’s ability to pay.
Supervisees are provided with Diandra’s office address, email address, and office and mobile phone numbers. Supervisees are asked to call Diandra on her mobile if an emergency occurs after hours. Diandra also provides each supervisee with the names and phone numbers of agencies that respond to crisis situations.
Diandra follows both the ACA and the NBCC Code of Ethics and the Standards for the Ethical Practice of Clinical Supervision.
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