Supervisees’Emotional Awareness Process During Supervision Sessions Author:Shiou-Ling Tsai, Ping-Hwa Chen
Research Article
Supervisees’emotional awareness is an important task during supervision. This awareness process was examined in this study. Three supervisor-supervisee dyads participated in the study. Each dyad had six intensive supervision sessions. After each supervisory session, each supervisee was interviewed individually to understand her personal experiences. A total of 36 sessions were recorded and transcribed. The qualitative discovery–oriented paradigm as well as grounded theory was used to analyze process and outcome data. Results showed that supervisees’emotional awareness process during supervision included stages of readiness to explore, emotional re-experiencing, cognitive probing, emotional validation and insight. Three paths of supervisees’emotional awareness process were also found. When supervisees acquired emotional awareness, they felt a sense of validation and relief from emotional tension. They became more competent than before. In addition, the supervisees’learning from emotional awareness process increased their abilities to work with clients’emotion and facilitated the integration of theoretical knowledge and practice. Implications for future research and practice were discussed.