Qualitative Investigation of Clinical Supervisor Value Conflicts

Abstract

Eighteen clinical supervisors participated in focus groups or an individual interview designed to investigate their personal experiences with value conflicts in supervision. Participants described the types of value conflicts they had experiences and their personal impact, effective and ineffective approaches for addressing these issues, resources for addressing value conflicts, actual and recommended training regarding value conflicts, and distinctions between value conflicts and ethics and countertransference. Using an inductive analysis process several themes were extracted. These themes are described and practice and research recommendations are given. (Contains 24 references and 2 tables.) (Author) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document.