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- Title
Responding to Remediation and Gatekeeping Challenges in Supervision.
- Authors
Russell, Candyce S.; DuPree, W. Jared; Beggs, Mary A.; Peterson, Colleen M.; Anderson, Michael P.
- Abstract
Thirty faculty in randomly selected Commission on Accreditation for Marriage and Family Therapy Education (COAMFTE) programs representing four geographical regions of the United States were asked to respond to a survey that included seven brief vignettes depicting gatekeeping and remediation challenges supervisors may face when working with therapists-in-training. Research participants were asked to select from among a range of 17 response options and were also asked to provide a rationale for the selection of their responses. The response rate for the mailed survey was 34%. Telephone interviews were conducted with three respondents who had provided especially detailed responses to the open-ended portions of the mailed survey and who also volunteered to be questioned regarding how supervision decisions are made. Results support the conclusion that COAMFTE faculty take their gatekeeping function seriously as they balance commitments to multiple stakeholders. When presented with hypothetical “bare-bones” vignettes, the supervisors in our study consistently recommended talking with the student in order to more fully understand the context of the student’s performance problem before deciding how to proceed. Supervisors recommended a variety of remediation efforts, but reserved the most severe consequences, such as probation, dismissal, and filing an ethics complaint, for the vignette involving dishonesty and lack of personal integrity.
- Subjects
UNITED States; GATEKEEPING; MARRIAGE; SURVEYS; ENVIRONMENTAL remediation; SUPERVISION; STAKEHOLDERS; HONESTY; VIGNETTES
- Publication
Journal of Marital & Family Therapy, 2007, Vol 33, Issue 2, p227
- ISSN
0194-472X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1752-0606.2007.00018.x