Supervisees of Color in Cross-Racial Supervision: Perceptions of Multicultural Supervision

Steps have been taken to understand cultural processes within supervision. A recent qualitative analysis established a framework that summarized themes for how supervisees experience helpful, hindering, and missing events in multicultural supervision with predominantly White supervisees (Wilcox, Winkeljohn Black, et al., 2022). This analysis builds on Wilcox, Winkeljohn Black, et al. (2022) by focusing on supervisees of color (SOC) working with White supervisors and sought to determine whether the previously established framework applied to multicultural supervision in cross-racial supervisory dyads. Critically, the present study used a deductive–inductive analytic approach that still accounted for novel themes among SOC (n = 85) that may not have emerged in prior work with predominantly White supervisees. The final themes highlight the universal needs of all supervisees with regard to multicultural supervision alongside the unique needs of SOC and provide guidance for how supervisors can be more culturally responsive.