What's the difference between counselor and supervisor?

Counselor


Definition:

  • (n.) One who counsels; an adviser.
  • (n.) A member of council; one appointed to advise a sovereign or chief magistrate. [See under Consilor.]
  • (n.) One whose profession is to give advice in law, and manage causes for clients in court; a barrister.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Candidates for a counselor-training program (136 Ss; 86% women; average age 44 yr.) took the GAIT in 18 groups and completed written forms for staff screening.
  • (2) Counselors who serve pregnant US teens face a number of obstacles in communicating adoption as a positive alternative.
  • (3) This paper describes the counseling program implemented by a social worker and a family planning counselor for female clinic patients requesting sterilization.
  • (4) The type of counselor utilized did not affect the level of compliance with either dependent variable.
  • (5) This study is based on interviews with Southern lesbian and gay young adults and survey data from school counselors and prospective teachers living in the South.
  • (6) The counselor, usually a woman, may have a background or training in social work, psychology, sociology, counseling, or nursing.
  • (7) This finding does not support the contention that a history of drinking and rehabilitation enhances the perception of counselor empathy among alcoholics.
  • (8) Counselors were not asked directly which theories they used.
  • (9) Stepwise logistic regression indicated that clients who reported that their plans were influenced: came to counseling to get information for making a decision about whether to have a child; discussed this decision in depth with the counselor; and had more education than clients who said that they were not influenced.
  • (10) A competent and effective genetic counselor must recognize and deal with the psychological defense mechanisms which affected persons and parents of affected children use to cope with the strain of genetic disease in the family.
  • (11) Contributions to the integration and acceptance of the young stroke survivor by administrators, counselors, students, teachers, and school nurses are examined.
  • (12) Health and mental health centers employing both professional and nonprofessional counselors need to determine the value of adding outreach components to their services, and agencies which already have outreach programs may need to determine their relevance and effectiveness.
  • (13) A combination of clinical ratings from counselors and statistical data from client files was used to predict 'successful' and 'unsuccessful' outcomes.
  • (14) One intervention compared research breast-feeding bedside counseling by a trained counselor, who also made eight telephone calls during the first 3 months of the infant's life, with the routine breast-feeding counseling provided in the hospital by nurses.
  • (15) Thus, it has become essential for health professionals, counselors, and parents to become familiar with characteristics of the high-risk teenager.
  • (16) A strong positive association was found between the counselors' attire and the clients' perception of the four selected characteristics of counselors.
  • (17) Smokers requesting self-help materials for smoking cessation (N = 2,021) were randomized to receive (a) an experimental self-quitting guide emphasizing nicotine fading and other nonaversive behavioral strategies, (b) the same self-quitting guide with a support guide for the quitter's family and friends, (c) self-quitting and support guides along with four brief counselor calls, or (d) a control guide providing motivational and quit tips and referral to locally available guides and programs.
  • (18) Structured meetings between the mother, a vocational counselor, and deaf adults affirmed and expanded the more positive images.
  • (19) Genetic counselors might focus on understanding counselees' feelings concerning the reproductive decision.
  • (20) Acting as the advocates and counselors of adolescents, the NFHWs will help to prepare the expectant mothers for the arrival of their infant.

Supervisor


Definition:

  • (n.) One who supervises; an overseer; an inspector; a superintendent; as, a supervisor of schools.
  • (n.) A spectator; a looker-on.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It appeared that ratings by supervisors were influenced primarily by the interpersonal skills of the residents and secondarily by ability.
  • (2) Herman Van Rompuy, the European Council president chairing the summit, hoped to finesse an overall agreement on the banking supervisor.
  • (3) Other findings showed highly satisfactory to above average performance of graduates whether based on residency supervisors' evaluations or self-evaluations and higher ratings for the graduates who selected surgery residency programs than for those pursuing other disciplines.
  • (4) We reviewed the routines for providing information on drugs, and for training in the use of drugs and aids to medication in hospital and nursing homes by interviewing 11 ward supervisors.
  • (5) The authors compared supervisors' global and specific item ratings of psychiatric residents' performance in each of three years of training with ratings of these applicants prior to their admission to the program.
  • (6) Mentoring relationships experienced by Army Nurse Corps officers in head nurse or nursing supervisor roles were examined via a survey questionnaire.
  • (7) Respondents' perceptions of their supervisors' style adaptability were positively and significantly correlated with their perceptions of work-unit effectiveness.
  • (8) 34% of the house officers had an appointed supervisor compared with 54% in primary care.
  • (9) Later they were also assigned to interdisciplinary inpatient teams led by community psychiatry supervisors.
  • (10) The nerd may have been more in evidence early on - not least when he was doing his doctorate and ignored the advice of his Nobel prize-winning supervisor, Nikolaas Tinbergen, and opted for a stats fest, "a classic piece of Popperian science", instead of a fluffier study of animal behaviour - but it's still around.
  • (11) The leader of such a supervisors' group can be more helpful if he will see himself as a facilitator of essentially peer group observations rather than a transference interpreter or group teacher.
  • (12) Data published by the Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS) showed that the banks were only forced to simulate losses on sovereign debt that they held for trading purposes and not for bonds they might hold to maturity on their banking books.
  • (13) The most pronounced finding was the importance of supervisors being pharmacists: satisfaction on five of six satisfaction subscales was related to whether one's supervisor was a pharmacist.
  • (14) Shapla has found a job at another factory but, due to her back injuries, as a sewing-machine operator, not a supervisor.
  • (15) Administrators, supervisors, and staff must be involved in this important process to attract and retain new as well as experienced nurses.
  • (16) Mohamed Saleh, the security supervisor for the Al Masry club, claimed that he too noticed people in the crowd whom he described as "strangers".
  • (17) Variables within the referring analyst, patient, candidate, and supervisor are examined in their interaction with the circumstances of the assessment enterprise.
  • (18) A nursery supervisor with smear- and culture-positive pulmonary tuberculosis and a productive cough exposed 528 newborns over a three-month period before her disease was diagnosed.
  • (19) Combining the data from cutaneous malignant melanoma over both sexes and both registries the occupations with the highest incidence ratios (expressed as a percentage) were: airline pilots, incidence ratio (IR) = 273, (95% confidence limits 118-538); finance and insurance brokers IR = 245 (140-398); professional accountants IR = 208 (134-307); dentists IR = 207 (133-309); inspectors and supervisors in transport IR = 206 (133-304); pharmacists IR = 198 (115-318); professionals not elsewhere classified IR = 196 (155-243); judges IR = 196 (126-289); doctors IR = 188 (140-248); university teachers IR = 188 (110-302); and chemists IR = 188 (111-296).
  • (20) The radical, yet promising approach of eliminating evening and night shift nursing supervisors is discussed.