Personality Type and Clinical Supervision Interventions

✍ Scribed by Janine M. Bernard; Tamara L. Clingerman; Dennis D. Gilbride

• Book ID: 102287470
• Publisher: American Counseling Association
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 127 KB
• Volume: 50
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0011-0035
• DOI: 10.1002/j.1556-6978.2011.tb00117.x

✦ Synopsis

In this study, the authors investigated personality type of supervisors and supervisees and interventions chosen by supervisors for 78 supervisory dyads from 9 different counselor education programs. Gender effects were also investigated. Results indicated that interventions were not influenced by supervisor personality type as measured by the Revised NEO (Neuroticism, Extraversion, Openness to New Experiences) Personality Inventory (NEO PI‐R; Costa & McCrae, 1992a), nor were they influenced by similarity or dissimilarity of supervisory dyads by type or gender. Rather, most supervision interventions were Intuitive or Perceiving as measured by the Focus of Supervision Form. One exception was when supervisees scored high on Openness on the NEO PI‐R, which resulted in supervisors choosing Judging interventions.