Talking About Sexual Attraction In Supervision Trainee Experience And Disclosure In Supervision

Author : Renata Carneiro
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
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Download or read book Family Therapy Supervisors' Sexual Attraction Towards Supervisees written by Renata Carneiro and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using sexual scripts theory, this web-based quantitative cross-sectional survey research study was designed to examine the associations among supervisors' sexual scripts, comfort, training, and supervisors' management of sexual attraction towards supervisees in a sample of 174 marriage and family therapy supervisors. Approximately half of the participants were females (54%) and most participants identified themselves as heterosexual (88.5%), White (78.7%) and Christian (55.7%). The participants' ages were distributed as follows: 19% were less than 39 years old; 21.8% were between 40 and 49 years old; 23% were between 50 and 59; 25.9% were between 60 and 69 years old, 6.3% were older than 70 years old; 7 participants did not identify their age in the survey. Approximately 60% identified their theoretical style of supervision as "integrative", approximately 20% reported their style as post-modern, and approximately 5% each identified their styles as Bowenian, Structural, Strategic, or Contextual. The experience of the participants (in years) as clinical supervisors was as follows: 35.6% had less than 10 years experience; 41.4% had between 11 and 21 years experience; 15.5% had 22 to 30 years experience; 6.3% had more than 31 years of clinical experience; and 2 participants did not complete this part of the survey. Finally, the self-reported sexual scripts of participants were as follows: 59.2% reported being liberal; 24.7% reported being traditional; 10.9% reported being conservative or religious; and 9 participants did not complete this part of the survey. Participants completed one survey for this study. The survey included questions about supervisors' demographic information, sexual scripts (values), and experiences with sexual attraction in supervision. Survey questions were designed to explore supervisors' levels of comfort with sexual attraction, the role of "self of the therapist" training in increasing supervisors' awareness of their own sexual scripts, and abilities to make sound clinical decisions. The survey also examined how supervisors' awareness of socio-cultural messages (cultural sexual scripts) influence their comfort (i.e., less emotional reactivity) with being sexually attracted to supervisees; and the resources (e.g., training, codes of ethics, or supervision) that have helped supervisors manage sexual attraction to supervisees. The results of the study demonstrated poor reliability of measure and very weak associations among supervisors' sexual scripts, comfort, training and management of sexual attraction towards supervisees. The psychometrics of this study was not sound. Furthermore, in order to determine whether supervisors' sexual scripts, comfort, or training were directly associated with their management of sexual attraction towards supervisees, the variables which had the highest correlations with five management parameters were analyzed in linear regression models. Nevertheless, the results produced very low r-squared values (ranging from .07 to .057), indicating little, if any, explanation of the variance in the management parameters. As a result, linear regression models could not be used to predict how supervisors manage their sexual attraction towards supervisees. In future studies, other variables may be explored in lieu of or in combination with the variables addressed in this study to improve the predictability of management through regression models with a reliable valid survey and a representative sample (probability) of AAMFT approved supervisors.