Effects of Supervised Counseling on Dominance

Abstract

To ascertain the effects of supervised counselor experience on measures of dominance, graduate students were drawn from three departments at the University of Illinois, Urbana, and given the dominance and self-acceptance scales of the California Psychological Inventory and the California Fascism Scale. In the analysis of variance, the experimental group scored significantly higher (P<.05) on dominance than did the control group from pretest to posttest, and the correlation between dominance and self-acceptance was .66 (p<.OI). The correlation between dominance and fascism was not significantly different from zero. When the effects of participants' additional counselor (or teacher) experience were partialed out of posttest dominance scores, the results were not significantly changed. The results implied that a supervised counseling practicum effected more of an increase in participants' feelings of well-being than did other counselor (or teacher) experience.Janet L. Ostrand is Counseling Psychologist, Student Counseling Sen/ices, University of Illinois at Chicago Circle, Chicago, Illinois.

Current Trends in Practicum Supervision Research

“…Additional research established that the supervisor is important in helping the trainee develop concreteness, genuineness, respect (Karr & Geist, 1977), and empathy (Wedeking & Scott, 1976). Ostrand (1976) measured students on the California Psychological Inventory and the California Fascism Scale and found that students who complete practicum have higher feelings of self-acceptance (an important counselor quality) than students who do not go through practicum.…”