Supervision as Relational Justice

Supervision as Relational Justice: A Disability-Justice Framework for Clinical Training introduces a disability-informed model that reimagines clinical supervision as a space for emotional truth, narrative integrity, and systemic resistance. Developed through lived experience and trauma-informed ethics, the framework challenges conventional paradigms that pathologize disabled counselors-in-training (CITs) and offers a scaffolded approach rooted in relational pacing, symbolic safety, and identity integration.

This model affirms supervision as a collaborative, justice-centered practice—one that aligns with but expands beyond existing ethical codes (ACA, APA, NBCC, CACREP). It equips supervisors to witness without correction, document without erasure, and co-author supervision as a modality of liberation.

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