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Supervision Model
Discrimination Supervisions Model (DSM). DSM focuses on issues related to diversity and multiculturalism in a counseling supervision setting. The DSM approach allows the supervisor to assist the supervisee with exploring interventions for the session. Through building conceptualization skills, the supervisee will gain an understanding of the client's ability to process thoughts and emotions, identify themes in the counseling process, evaluate the counseling progression, identify and understand the client's statements of cultural identity and patterns of choosing interventions (Bernard & Goodyear, 2019; Aasheim, 2016). The DSM model assumes that each supervisor has a habit of attending to one supervisory role over another and encourages a broader focus of approach from the supervisor than what they might otherwise apply naturally (Crunk & Barden, 2017).