33-4 Supervisees' Perceptions of Helpful Supervisory Relationship

The purpose of this study was to explore how supervisees perceived and interpreted the helpful supervisory relationship. The qualitative research method was applied to interview ten doctoral level supervisees who were supervised by a senior supervisor. Based on Strong theory (Strong, 1968)[HL1], the supervisor was perceived as attractiveness, trustworthiness and expertness in a helpful supervisory relationship. Each supervisee was interviewed according to a Guided Inquiry which was a semi-structured open-ended questionnaire. Each interview was completed a week later after the termination of supervision. The results indicated that those elements contributed to helpful supervisory relationship were grouped into two dimensions. Six elements were categorized in the supervisory interventions dimension and fifteen elements were categorized in the supervisor characters dimension. Since we used the advanced supervisees and expert supervisor in this study, some elements derived from this study were hardly found in the previous research. Implications and suggestions were provided at the end.

Keywords
 counseling supervision、group counseling、leader、living supervision、supervisee、supervision、supervisor、supervisory relationship

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