The purpose of this investigation was to examine the congruence between family therapy trainees' perceptions of their own responses to dramatic emotional client events and independently trained experts' perceptions of the trainees' responses to the same events. In addition, the research examined this congruence in relationship to the trainees' ages, gender, years of clinical experience, semesters of didactic training, and years of private practice experience. / The population consisted of 11 doctoral students in the therapy track of the Interdivisional program in Marriage and Family Therapy at Florida State University. Three experienced Ph.D. therapists from the Tallahassee, Florida community were trained as experts to rate the trainees' responses. The statistical procedures used to analyze the data were percentage of agreement, Chi-square, and paired-sample T-test comparisons. / The findings reflect a significant difference between the experts and trainees versus experts' perceptions of how the trainees responded to dramatic emotional client events. The congruence between any two of the experts was twice as great as the agreement between any one expert and trainee. No relationship was found (i.e., increased congruence) with regard to an increase in the trainee's age, semesters of didactic training, years of clinical experience, or years of private practice. A difference in congruence according to trainee gender was discovered which suggests further investigation of a larger population of trainees. / The findings of incongruence have major implications in the area of family therapy supervision and training. This lack of congruence between trainees and supervisors strongly suggests the need for use of direct supervision methods such as videotape or live supervision rather than self-report methods such as process notes and case presentations. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 48-12, Section: A, page: 3054. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1987.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_76180 |
| Contributors | SANDQUIST, LYLE JEROME., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 131 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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