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The Developmental Process of Clinical Supervisors in Training: An Investigation of the Supervisor Complexity Model
Author(s) -
Baker Stanley B.,
Exum Herbert A.,
Tyler Richard E.
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
counselor education and supervision
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.608
H-Index - 40
eISSN - 1556-6978
pISSN - 0011-0035
DOI - 10.1002/j.1556-6978.2002.tb01300.x
Subject(s) - practicum , supervisor , psychology , set (abstract data type) , process (computing) , medical education , applied psychology , pedagogy , management , computer science , medicine , economics , programming language , operating system
The authors investigated C. E. Watkins's (1994) supervisor complexity model (SCM). The Psychotherapy Supervisor Development Scale (PSDS; C. E. Watkins, L. J. Schneider, J. Haynes, & R. Nieberding, 1995) was used to ascertain development over a 15‐week supervision practicum for 12 doctoral students and to compare their development with 7 doctoral students who had not yet begun their practicums. A set of retrospective interview questions produced responses that were used to investigate the viability of the 4 proposed discrete developmental stages in the SCM. The PSDS findings are congruent with theory. The retrospective interview findings, although interesting, are less definitive. Recommendations for research and training are presented.