J. Chagnon et Rk. Russell, ASSESSMENT OF SUPERVISEE DEVELOPMENTAL LEVEL AND SUPERVISION ENVIRONMENT ACROSS SUPERVISOR EXPERIENCE, Journal of counseling and development, 73(5), 1995, pp. 553-558
Supervisors representing different levels of experience viewed videota
pe vignettes of counselors demonstrating the first three developmental
levels of Stoltenberg's (1981) Counselor Complexity Model. Supervisor
s assessed each counselor on his or her developmental level and on the
supervision environment he or she would provide for the trainee. Resu
lts indicated that supervisor experience did not influence the assessm
ent of developmental level or the ability to make accurate environment
al matches. Nevertheless, supervisors had the most difficulty accurate
ly assessing counselors representing Level 2 in Stoltenberg's model an
d tended to make relative judgments about counselor developmental leve
l. Implications for training and further research are discussed.