The Genuine Scientist-practitioner in Vocational Psychology: An Autoethnography

McIlveen, Peter

doi:10.1080/14780880701522403

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“…McIlveen (2007) said "autoethnography offers practitioners a means of contributing to theory and practice while remaining genuine to their individual self and practice contexts" (p. 308). In autoethnography, the practice of writing as a method of inquiry and discovery is empowering and rigorous (Richardson, 2000;Wright, 2009;Wright & Cunningham, 2013).…”

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A Journey Toward Feminist Supervision: A Dual Autoethnographic Inquiry

Fickling¹,

Tangen²

2017

JCPS

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The purpose of this study was to explore our development as new supervisors learning to apply feminist supervision principles. Autoethnography was used to analyze author histories and learning processes over the course of one academic semester. Using personal narratives and critical reflections, we investigated our work of supervising beginning-level supervisees from a feminist perspective, and embodying our developing feminist supervisor skills and identities. Our inquiry was informed by our encounters with supervisees, supervisors, and each other. Basic definitions of supervision and feminist supervision frame the study, and results are shared in light of current research and theory. Keywords feminist supervision, clinical supervision, autoethnographyThis article is available in The Journal of Counselor Preparation and Supervision: http://repository.wcsu.edu/jcps/vol9/iss2/9For both novice and expert counselors, the words clinical supervisor may evoke images of knower and known. To supervise the work of another suggests we know something -or at least, are able to see something -that supervisees do not. Assuming this epistemological stance of knower -in therapy, supervision, or research -requires choice and invites self-awareness and reflexivity. To supervise from a feminist stance invites critical reflection on this knower-known dichotomy and requires even greater attention to context, subjectivity, difference, power, and mutuality.Although researchers have explored various tenets of feminist supervision (Gentile, Ballous, Roffman, & Ritchie, 2009;Mangione, Mears, Vincent, & Hawes, 2011;Nelson, Gizara, Hope, Phelps, Steward, & Weitzman, 2006;Szymanski, 2003), there exists a lack of research exploring doctoral student supervisors' experiences of feminist supervision with beginning-level supervisees. Furthermore, this has yet to be completed using authoethnographic methodology, a self-critical, emotional, and relational writing process (de Preez, 2008;Meekums, 2008). We believe that such an endeavor will enrich and extend our knowledge of the scope and context of feminist supervision across supervisor and supervisee developmental levels. To that end, the questions we sought to explore in this autoethnographic project were the following: How do we undertake this process of becoming a supervisor who is feminist? What does it mean to be a feminist supervisor with beginning-level supervisees, and what does it look like for us? How can we embody and claim this identity as a supervisor who is feminist? To explore these, we first turn to the basic definitions of supervision and feminist supervision. Supervision Clinical SupervisionClinical supervision has been defined as "a process whereby consistent observation and evaluation of the counseling process is provided by a trained and experienced professional who recognizes and is competent in the unique body of knowledge and skill required for professional development" (Haynes, Corey, & Moulton, 2003, p. 3). In this manuscript, we focus exclusively on supervision ...

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A Journey Toward Feminist Supervision: A Dual Autoethnographic Inquiry

Fickling¹,

Tangen²

2017

JCPS

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“…The second author is a psychologist and researcher in vocational psychology and counseling, with a demonstrable track-record of reflexivity in research (McIlveen, 2007;McIlveen, Beccaria, du Preez, & Patton, 2010). The second author acted as an auditor of the data analysis whereby both authors engaged in critical reflections on the interpretation of data.…”

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Unemployment From the Perspective of the Psychology of Working

Kossen

McIlveen

2017

Journal of Career Development

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Unemployment is a ubiquitous problem that is a complex of cultural, economic interpersonal, physical, and psychological dimensions. Whereas the pernicious negative outcomes of unemployment are empirically established in the literature, there is a need to better understand the psychological experiences of unemployment so as to inform interventions that ameliorate its impact. The present research is based on archival interview data and uses the psychology of working theory to understand 32 individuals’ experiences of unemployment. The findings include themes that are consistent with the hypothesized predictors posited in the theory, including marginalization, economic constraints, volition, career adaptability, proactive personality, critical consciousness, social support, and economic conditions. The research findings affirm the conceptual precepts of the theory with regard to its predictors; thus, this contribution to the literature on the psychology of working and unemployment opens new perspectives on a perennial problem.

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“…The STF is also an analytic framework for researchers' reflexivity It also makes sense as another chapter in the story of rural, working class boy "made good" (McIlveen, 2007;McIlveen et al, 2010).…”

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A research agenda for the vocational psychology of agriculture

McIlveen

2015

Australian Journal of Career Development

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The Vocational Psychology of Agriculture – Farming Food and Fibre is advanced in this article. It is argued that vocational psychology can and should provide a substantive contribution to agriculture by solving problems associated with labour supply and the quality of work, particularly the problems of poverty and hunger that blight the world. Despite its scientific and professional capability, the immediate problem is that vocational psychology lacks an epistemology and knowledge base on which to advance its contribution to agriculture. The Vocational Psychology of Agriculture – Farming Food and Fibre is motivated by the ethical vision of the psychology of working perspective. The Systems Theory Framework of Career is used as a prism to render a research agenda for the Vocational Psychology of Agriculture – Farming Food and Fibre. The Systems Theory Framework enables the integration of conceptually different vocational psychology theories. When coherently organised by the Systems Theory Framework, these theories will furnish novel research questions that may populate the research agenda and, ultimately, foster research and development that enhance agriculture’s capacity to feed and clothe the world.

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The Genuine Scientist-practitioner in Vocational Psychology: An Autoethnography

Cited by 25 publications

References 38 publications

A Journey Toward Feminist Supervision: A Dual Autoethnographic Inquiry

A Journey Toward Feminist Supervision: A Dual Autoethnographic Inquiry

Unemployment From the Perspective of the Psychology of Working

A research agenda for the vocational psychology of agriculture

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