Preferred Name
Brooke Carroll
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
ORCID
0009-0005-9111-1666
Date of Graduation
5-15-2025
Semester of Graduation
Spring
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Department
Department of Graduate Psychology
First Advisor
Debbie Sturm
Second Advisor
A. Renee Staton
Third Advisor
Robin Anderson
Abstract
This dissertation examines foundational principles of ethics, clinical supervision, and clinical supervisor ethical decision-making self-efficacy development. Counselors-in-training, those who have completed their degrees but are not yet licensed, are profoundly impacted by their experience in clinical supervision. Therefore, it is imperative for the clinical supervisors who are leading this new generation of counselors to embody the highest respect and execution of ethical practice and ethical decision making. To do this, clinical supervisor ethical decision-making self-efficacy must be tended to, developed, and understood. When mastered, these clinical supervisors are better equipped to assist their supervisees through ethical dilemmas and critical incidents. Throughout the next three articles you will find these salient themes. The conceptual manuscript will focus on assisting supervisees through moral and ethical dilemmas. This will occur through the lens of understanding different categories of morals including virtue, aspirational, and mandatory ethics and how to employ them ethically in practice. The qualitative manuscript will approach understanding the experience of counselors-in-training as they navigate ethical dilemmas using interviews which are informed by the Enhanced Critical Incident Technique (ECIT). Lastly, the quantitative manuscript explores the process of clinical supervisor ethical decision-making self-efficacy development. Projected central themes will include impacts on ethical decision-making, promotion of self-efficacy development, and the needs of supervisees in ethics through practice and dilemmas.
