Supervising in the Age of Algorithms: Dayna Guido on Ethics and AI

Supervising in the Age of Algorithms: Dayna Guido on Ethics and AI

For more than forty years, Dayna Guido has sat across from clinicians in supervision, helping them navigate the gray areas of mental health practice: What do you do when a client discloses something outside the session? How do you manage the competing needs of confidentiality and safety? How do you know when your own reactions are clouding your judgment?

Now, she says, a new layer has complicated every one of those questions: Artificial Intelligence(AI).

“Supervision is where ethics becomes real,” Guido explains. “It’s the space where clinicians learn how to apply abstract codes to living situations. With AI, those situations have multiplied in ways we never anticipated.”

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Curiosity over compliance: Dayna Guido’s radical take on ethics and parenting

Curiosity over compliance: Dayna Guido’s radical take on ethics and parenting

In a field often focused on providing answers, Dayna Guido emphasizes the value of asking questions. 

This might sound counterintuitive coming from someone who’s spent decades training therapists, running supervision groups, and writing books about ethics and parenting. But for Guido, a clinical social worker, longtime trainer, and quiet rebel in a world of rigid frameworks, she believes learning is most effective when it starts with self-reflection rather than direct instruction.

“Ethics isn’t something I lecture on,” she says. “I don’t give people answers. I help them think.”

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Ethical Clarity in the Age of AI

Ethical Clarity in the Age of AI

AI is quietly redrawing the boundaries of care. In hospitals and private practices alike, algorithms are scanning clinical notes, drafting treatment plans, and even flagging potential diagnoses before a therapist has met the client. It’s efficient. It’s impressive. But it’s also unnerving, especially for mental health professionals trained to center human nuance, not machine logic.

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