The Relationship of Supervisory Experience, Counseling Experience, and Training in Supervision to Supervisory Identity Development

Abstract

The relationship between supervisory identity development and supervisory experience, counseling experience, and training in supervision was examined for Association for Counselor Education and Supervision (ACES) members. Analyses indicated that supervisory experience and training were related to supervisory identity development, whilst counseling experience was not. The implications of these findings are discussed in relation to the importance of supervisor credentials.

Reliability and Validity of the Psychotherapy Supervisor Development Scale: A Meta-Analytic Evaluation

“…One study (Pelling, 2008) reported data on experience, but it was not usable in the VG because it did not contain the information required to calculate an effect size. Table 3 presents the details of the studies included in the VG analyses.…”

“…This statistic indicates whether there is sufficient evidence to reject the null hypothesis that (Hillman et al, 1998) Peer-reviewed journal 43 103.9 11.2 (Bencivenne, 1999) Unpublished dissertation 136 110.0 8.9 (Baker et al, 2002) Peer-reviewed journal 19 84.2 14.2 (Barnes, 2002) Unpublished dissertation 255 107.0 11.9 (Vidlak, 2002) Unpublished dissertation 99 103.3 8.0 (Culbreth & Cooper, 2008) Peer-reviewed journal 192 -- (Lyon et al, 2008) Peer-reviewed journal 233 90.6 12.5 (Pelling, 2008) Peer all of the studies share a common effect size. The I 2 statistic was also calculated, which indicates the extent to which the observed heterogeneity in reliability estimates is due to true variability across samples.…”

“…Of the 10 studies reviewed, 5 (50%) (Barnes, 2002;Lee et al, 2009;Lyon et al, 2008;Pelling, 2008;Watkins et al, 1995) studies reported internal consistency statistics (Cronbach's alpha) based on the study sample's scores. Of the five studies that did not report an alpha value (Baker et al, 2002;Bencivenne, 1999;Culbreth & Cooper, 2008;Hillman et al, 1998;Vidlak, 2002), each referenced the original PSDS alpha value and two of these studies also referenced other reliability statistics of an early follow-up study on the PSDS scale (Hillman et al, 1998).…”

“…Of the 8 studies that reported information on degrees, 830 (64%) participants had doctorates. The participants varied in their professional backgrounds, and included supervisors who were psychologists (Vidlak, 2002;Watkins et al, 1995), supervisors from university counseling centers (Hillman et al, 1998), marriage and family therapists (Bencivenne, 1999), doctoral students (Baker, Exum, & Tyler, 2002), predoctoral interns (Lyon et al, 2008), counseling education supervisors (Barnes, 2002;Pelling, 2008), substance abuse counselor supervisors (Culbreth & Cooper, 2008), and genetic counselors (Lee, Veach, & LeRoy, 2009). Mean years of supervision experience was 10.2 across the 7 studies that reported this data.…”

“…Of the 10 studies in the final sample, 7 studies (Barnes, 2002;Bencivenne, 1999;Culbreth & Cooper, 2008;Lee et al, 2009;Pelling, 2008;Vidlak, 2002;Watkins et al, 1995) included data on supervision experience and PSDS scores. One study (Pelling, 2008) reported data on experience, but it was not usable in the VG because it did not contain the information required to calculate an effect size.…”