Measuring the Working Alliance in Counselor Supervision

We developed the Supervisory Working Alliance Inventory (SWAI) to measure the relationship in counselor supervision. SWAI was based conceptually on the work of Greenson (1967) , Pepinsky and Patton (1971) , and others. Three supervisor factors (Client Focus, Rapport, and Identification) and two trai...

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Published in:Journal of counseling psychology 1990-07, Vol.37 (3), p.322-329
Main Authors: Efstation, James F, Patton, Michael J, Kardash, CarolAnne M
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Biological and medical sciences
Counseling
Counselor Educators
Counselor Trainees
Counselor Training
Graduate Students
Higher Education
Human
Internship Programs
Interpersonal Interaction
Inventories
Medical sciences
Professional relationships
Professional Supervision
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Supervision
Supervisors
Supervisory Working Alliance Inventory
Test Construction
Test Reliability
Test Validity
Tests
Therapeutical relation and framework
Treatments
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Summary:We developed the Supervisory Working Alliance Inventory (SWAI) to measure the relationship in counselor supervision. SWAI was based conceptually on the work of Greenson (1967) , Pepinsky and Patton (1971) , and others. Three supervisor factors (Client Focus, Rapport, and Identification) and two trainee factors (Rapport and Client Focus) were extracted by factor analysis. The scores on the SWAI were found to possess adequate scale reliability, and evidence of convergent and divergent validity for the SWAI was established by examining its relation to selected scales from the Supervisory Styles Inventory ( Friedlander & Ward, 1984 ). Trainee scores on the Rapport and Client Focus scales of the SWAI were significant predictors of scores on the Self-Efficacy Inventory ( Friedlander & Snyder, 1983 ). Implications for counselor training are discussed in the context of additional research on the psychometric properties of the SWAI.
ISSN:0022-0167
1939-2168
DOI:10.1037/0022-0167.37.3.322