Singaporean supervisory identity development and its relationship to supervisory experience, counselling experience, and training in supervision. Issue 2 (3rd July 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Pelling, Nadine
• Is Part Of: Asia pacific journal of counselling and psychotherapy. Volume 12:Issue 2(2021)
• Page Start: 186
• Page End: 204
• Publication Date: 2021-07-03
• Subjects: counselling -- counseling -- counselling supervision -- counseling supervision -- supervisory identity; Counseling -- Periodicals; Psychotherapy -- Periodicals; 616.8914
• DOI: 10.1080/21507686.2021.1960400
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2150-7686

Abstract

ABSTRACT: The relationship between supervisory identity development and supervisory experience, counselling experience, and training in supervision was examined for a group of 29 Singaporean counsellors who attended a workshop on supervision. Analyses indicated that supervisory experience was related to supervisory identity development, whilst counselling experience and supervisory training initially were not. Additionally, participants showed significantly greater scores on the Psychotherapy Supervisor Development Scale (PSDS) following the workshop when compared with PSDS scores prior to the workshop. Thus, workshop supervision training ultimately aided supervisory identity development. The implications of these findings are discussed in relation to the importance of supervisor credentials.