Counselor Supervisor Development And Self Efficacy

Download or read book Counselor Supervisor Development and Self-efficacy written by Susan L. Williams and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The counseling and mental health professions rely on the clinical supervisor to train new counselors in the requisite clinical and professional skills necessary to promote the welfare of the client, the ultimate consumer of counseling services. However, there is a lack of empirical evidence about what influences a clinical supervisor's competence. Supervisor competence for this study is defined as a supervisor's level of development and perceived self-efficacy. This study investigates the relationship between different types of supervision-specific education, training, and experience, and a supervisor's level of development (i.e. role integration) and self-efficacy (i.e., mastery in performing the tasks of supervision). Using non-probability sampling, data were collected through a nationally distributed, on-line, web-based survey. Members of the American Counseling Association (ACA) and the Counselor Education and Supervision List-serve (CESNET) were solicited via randomly selected e-mail addresses. Clinical supervisors (N = 298) from academic and non-academic work environments completed a 63 item Clinical Supervisor Survey, which included a 17 item Psychotherapy Supervisor Development Scale (PSDS; Watkins et al., 1995), 18 items selected from the Counselor Supervisor Self-Efficacy Scale (CSSES; Barnes, 2002), and 28 demographic questions. Correlation, independent t -test, ANOVA, and regression analyses were used to determine which factors influenced a clinical supervisor's level of development and self-efficacy. Results found that: (a) the years of supervision practice, (b) the availability of helpful supervision in a supervisor's development as a counselor/therapist, (c) supervision-specific education, workshops or seminars, and (d) the more recent the exposure, or relative frequency of this additional education and training, significantly predicted (p