Supervisee Incompatibility and Its Influence on Triadic Supervision: An Examination of Doctoral Student Supervisors' Perspectives

✍ Scribed by Serge F. Hein; Gerard Lawson; Christopher P. Rodriguez

• Publisher: American Counseling Association
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 114 KB
• Volume: 50
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0011-0035
• DOI: 10.1002/j.1556-6978.2011.tb01925.x

✦ Synopsis

A qualitative study was conducted to explore supervisors' experiences of supervisee incompatibility in triadic supervision. In‐depth interviews were completed with 9 doctoral student supervisors in a counselor education program, and a whole‐text analysis generated 3 categories. Supervisee incompatibility took a wide variety of forms and negatively affected the content of supervision, including its progress and productivity. It also negatively influenced the process of supervision, including the feedback and support offered by either the supervisor or the supervisees and the general atmosphere of supervision meetings. Implications of the findings for counseling supervision and for further research are also addressed.