Case 7. Handling Disparate<\/p>\n
Information for Evaluating Trainees<\/p>\n
Rashid Vaji, Ph.D., a member of the school psychology faculty at a midsize university,<\/p>\n
serves as a faculty supervisor for students assigned to externships in schools. The<\/p>\n
department has formalized a supervision and evaluation system for the extern program.<\/p>\n
Students have weekly individual meetings with the faculty supervisor and<\/p>\n
biweekly meetings with the on-site supervisor. The on-site supervisor writes a midyear<\/p>\n
(December) and end of academic year (May) evaluation of each student. The<\/p>\n
site evaluations are sent to Dr. Vaji, and he provides feedback based on the site and<\/p>\n
his own supervisory evaluation to each student. The final grade (fail, low pass, pass,<\/p>\n
high pass) is the responsibility of Dr. Vaji.<\/p>\n
Dr. Vaji also teaches the Spring Semester graduate class on \u201cHealth Disparities in<\/p>\n
Mental Health.\u201d One of the course requirements is for students to write weekly<\/p>\n
thought papers, in which they are required to take the perspective of therapy clients<\/p>\n
from different ethnic groups in reaction to specific session topics. Leo Watson, a<\/p>\n
second-year graduate student is one of Dr. Vaji\u2019s externship supervisees. He is also<\/p>\n
enrolled in the Health Disparities course. Leo\u2019s thought papers often present<\/p>\n
ethnic-minority adolescents as prone to violence and unable to \u201cgrasp\u201d the insights<\/p>\n
offered by school psychologists. In a classroom role-playing exercise, Leo \u201cplays\u201d an<\/p>\n
ethnic-minority student client as slumping in the chair not understanding the psychologist<\/p>\n
and giving angry retorts. In written comments on these thought papers<\/p>\n
and class feedback, Dr. Vaji encourages Leo to incorporate more of the readings on<\/p>\n
racial\/ethnic discrimination and multicultural competence into his papers and to<\/p>\n
provide more complex perspectives on clients.<\/p>\n
One day during his office hours, three students from the class come to Dr. Vaji\u2019s<\/p>\n
office to complain about Leo\u2019s behavior outside the classroom. They describe incidents<\/p>\n
in which Leo uses derogatory ethnic labels to describe his externship clients<\/p>\n
and brags about \u201cputting one over\u201d on his site supervisors by describing these clients<\/p>\n
in \u201cglowing\u201d terms just to satisfy his supervisors\u2019 \u201cstupid liberal do-good\u201d<\/p>\n
attitudes. They also report an incident at a local bar at which Leo was seen harassing<\/p>\n
an African American waitress using racial slurs.<\/p>\n
After the students have left his office, Dr. Vaji reviews his midyear evaluation and<\/p>\n
supervision notes on Leo and the midyear on-site supervisor\u2019s report. In his own<\/p>\n
evaluation report Dr. Vaji had written, \u201cLeo often articulates a strong sense of duty<\/p>\n
to help his ethnic minority students overcome past discrimination but needs additional<\/p>\n
growth and supervision in applying a multicultural perspective into his<\/p>\n
clinical work.\u201d The on-site supervisor\u2019s evaluation states that<\/p>\n
Leo has a wonderful attitude towards his student clients . . . Unfortunately<\/p>\n
evaluation of his treatment skills is limited because Leo has had less cases to<\/p>\n
discuss than some of his peers since a larger than usual number of students<\/p>\n
have stopped coming to their sessions with him.<\/p>\n
It is the middle of the Spring Semester, and Dr. Vaji still has approximately 6<\/p>\n
weeks of supervision left with Leo. The students\u2019 complaints about Leo, while more<\/p>\n
extreme, are consistent with what Dr. Vaji has observed in Leo\u2019s class papers and<\/p>\n
role-playing exercises. However, these complaints are very different from his presentation<\/p>\n
during on-site supervision. If Leo has been intentionally deceiving both<\/p>\n
supervisors, then he may be more ineffective or harmful as a therapist to his current<\/p>\n
clients than either supervisor realized. In addition, purposeful attempts to deceive<\/p>\n
the supervisors might indicate a personality disorder or lack of integrity that if left<\/p>\n
unaddressed might be harmful to adolescent clients in the future.<\/p>\n
Ethical Dilemma<\/p>\n
Dr. Vaji would like to meet with Leo at minimum to discuss ways to retain adolescent<\/p>\n
clients and to improve his multicultural treatment skills. He does not know<\/p>\n
to what extent his conversation with Leo and final supervisory report should be<\/p>\n
influenced by the information provided by the graduate students.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Case 7. Handling Disparate Information for Evaluating Trainees Rashid Vaji, Ph.D., a member of the school psychology faculty at a midsize university, serves as a faculty supervisor for students assigned to externships in schools. The department has formalized a supervision and evaluation system for the extern program. Students have weekly individual meetings with the faculty […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_joinchat":[]},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67914"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67914"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72940,"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67914\/revisions\/72940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}