Clinical supervision is widely recognized as critical to professional development of both practitioners and trainees. Yet, adequate clinical supervision may not be readily available to many helping professionals due to a lack of clinical supervisors with expertise, time, and interest necessary for providing supervision on a regular basis. Sharing a peer supervision relationship with a colleague can be a viable alternative or supplement to receiving supervision from an "expert" supervisor and can offer a variety of benefits not usually provided though traditional supervision. This paper provides an overview of peer supervision and presents the results of two studies of a peer supervision model in counselor education.
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James M. Benshoff (1994) studied this question.