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Self-assessment and instructor assessment: Contribution to supervision in a brief counselling skills training program

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 September 2015

Erica Frydenberg  and
Vicki McKenzie
Erica Frydenberg
Affiliation:
University of Melbourne
Vicki McKenzie
Affiliation:
Ministry of Education & Training, Victoria
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Whilst there are many critical elements in the teaching of micro-counselling skills, feedback is an essential component of an effective training program. This paper describes supervision linked to a program of instruction. More particularly it examines the relative merit and contribution of utilising both instructor rating and self-rating as a means of providing educative feedback during the process of supervision in a brief counselling training program. Instructor rating and self-rating measures were taken on two occasions, first at the commencement of a six-week training program and secondly at the completion of the course. It was found that instructor rating was consistently lower than self-rating, but both reflected an improvement in counselling skills acquisition. Students indicated an ability to be self-critical after a period of counselling training to the extent that instructor rating matched more closely self-rating, after the second interview.

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Journal of Psychologists and Counsellors in Schools , Volume 2 , November 1992 , pp. 17 - 25
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1992

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