Professional Psychology Program, George Washington University, Washington, DC 20052, USA.
Psychotherapy (Chic). 2013 Jun;50(2):178-88. doi: 10.1037/a0033028.
The supervisory relationship is one of the most important components in training therapists' professional development, and it is a frequent area of training-focused research. The current study explored how 57 training therapists' adult romantic attachments relate to the attachment to the supervisor and the supervisory working alliance. Additionally, we explored how both adult attachment and supervisory attachment relate to trainees' perceptions of their counseling self-efficacy (CSE). Results revealed that therapists with higher levels of fearful attachment to the supervisors and avoidant attachment in adult romantic relationships had less perceived CSE. Hierarchical regression revealed that it was the avoidant adult romantic attachment and the supervisory working alliance that accounted for the most significant variance in CSE, not the attachment to the supervisor. Path analysis using structural equation modeling was used to explore both the direct and indirect paths to CSE. When all variables were explored together, only the path from romantic attachment avoidance to fearful attachment to the supervisor was significant. Adult romantic attachment no longer directly related to CSE when including all the variables in the model. Implications of the findings will be discussed with regard to future research that is needed, the use of attachment-based supervisory interventions, and the application of the findings in clinical training.
督导关系是治疗师专业发展培训中最重要的组成部分之一，也是培训重点研究的一个常见领域。本研究探讨了 57 名培训治疗师的成人浪漫依恋与对督导的依恋和督导工作联盟之间的关系。此外，我们还探讨了成人依恋和督导依恋如何与受训者对自己咨询自我效能感的感知相关。研究结果表明，与督导有较高恐惧依恋和成人浪漫关系中回避依恋的治疗师，其感知的咨询自我效能感较低。层次回归显示，是成人浪漫关系中的回避依恋和督导工作联盟解释了咨询自我效能感最大的可变性，而不是对督导的依恋。使用结构方程模型的路径分析用于探索咨询自我效能感的直接和间接途径。当一起探索所有变量时，只有从浪漫依恋回避到对督导的恐惧依恋的路径是显著的。当将所有变量纳入模型时，成人浪漫依恋与咨询自我效能感不再直接相关。研究结果将在未来需要的研究、基于依恋的督导干预的使用以及临床培训中的应用方面进行讨论。
