• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.573-594
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• 2017

The present study interviewed Eight novice supervisors (i.e., counselling psychologists with fewer than 5 years of experience) to investigate the need for formal supervision training. A consensual qualitative research method was used to analyze data, and the result found four main domains, 12 sub-domains, and 33 categories. The results also indicated that novice supervisors believe their own supervisors and expert supervisors have a great understanding of individual counselling cases, and that the role of a supervisor is to help supervisees' ability to understand each case better. Novice supervisors generally take their own supervisors as their role models, although most of them did not receive formal training from their own supervisors. Novice supervisors seek advice on supervision from their colleagues or their own supervisors but still find supervising difficult. They also believe there is a great need for clearly set guidelines or a manual on providing effective supervision.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.18 no.9
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• pp.156-177
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• 2018

The objective of this study was to understand the countertransference and its meanings, experienced by novice supervisors in the supervision. For this, total seven novice supervisors with supervision experience for five years or less were purposively sampled, and then the in-depth interviews were conducted. As a phenomenological research, the collected data was analyzed in accordance with the Giorgi's 4-Stages, suitable for discovering the phenomenon and its meanings, experienced by research participants. In the results, there were six themes such as 'difficulty to realize the countertransference', 'expectation and impatience of supervisee's growth', 'identification with supervisee', 'hope for maintaining a good relationship with supervisee', 'avoidance of supervision', and 'struggle for standing up as an expert'. The unsolved problems and desires of novice supervisors were revealed as countertransference, which influenced the supervision. The results of this study imply that the countertransference of supervision has not only negative aspects, but also a positive meaning in the aspect that they could deeply understand themselves and others.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.301-319
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• 2018

The purpose of this research was to verify the mediating effects of countertransference management ability and each of its subscales, i.e. self-insight, self-integration, empathy ability, anxiety-management, and conceptualizing skills, in the effect of supervisor supports on psychological burnout of novice counselors. For this purpose, 202 novice counselors who have experience of supervision less than 3 years in counseling experience were studied. The results of the analysis were as follows : First, The supervisor supports were positively related to countertransference management skill and all its five subscales. Additionally, supervisor supports, countertransference management skill, and its five subscales were proved to negatively related to psychological burnout. second, The verification of mediating effects of countertransference management skill in the relationship between supervisor support and psychological burnout demonstrated the complete mediation. third, The self-integration, empathy ability, anxiety-management completely mediated the relationship between supervisor supports and psychological burnout. and The self-insight, conceptualizing skills partially mediated the relationship between supervisor supports and psychological burnout. These results confirmed that countertransference management skill is a strong influential factor between supervisor supports and psychological burnout. Implications for clinical practice and directions for future research were also discussed.