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Understanding Supervisors Experience of Conducting Supervision to Home-Based Counselors: Two IPA Studies on the Experience of Supervisors of Home-Based Counselors

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  • Home-based counseling (HBC) occurs when counselors provide therapy services to individuals and families within the clients’ home environment. Since its inception in the 1980s, HBC has become a common practice within the counseling field. In 2014, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (2014) named HBC one of the fastest-growing divisions of mental health services. However, a gap in research exists regarding this widely used form of counseling. Currently, only a small number of articles provide home-based counseling practice considerations, conceptual content, and the experience of HBCs. However, a lack of research directly addresses supervisors' experiences providing supervision to home-based counselors. Using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) qualitative methods, this dissertation sought to understand the experiences of supervisors who provide supervision to home-based counselors. The research approach for both studies is Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA). IPA allows the researcher to explore how individuals make meaning of their experiences. The researcher recruited seven participants from across the United States. Participants for this study met the criteria of being independently licensed as professional counselors in their state of practice. They have currently or within two years of the study have provided supervision in their professional role to home-based counselors. The researcher utilized IPA data analysis as described by Smith et al. (2008). Strategies to increase trustworthiness in both studies included peer debriefing, reflexivity, thick description, and member checks. The first study (n=7) explored the lived experiences of supervisors of HBCs. The study’s findings indicate that supervisors of HBCs experience: a sense of marginalization within the counseling profession, navigating the chaos of the home-based environment, learning by drawing upon positive and negative experiences from their past, and feeling empowered or disempowered by agency expectations and level of agency support. The second study (n=7) explored how participants experience their training in the backdrop of providing supervision to HBCs. The study’s findings indicate that supervisors of HBCs experience: feeling a sense of disillusionment connected to training, the dissonance between training’s valuing of intersectionality and application in the complex HBC setting, multigenerational on-the-job training, and a sense of constant adaptation to meet the insufficiency of training. Implications for this research are directed toward foundational knowledge and support of supervisors of HBCs. The findings emphasize the nuances, challenges, and lack of support these supervisors experience. Therefore, implications are geared toward supervision practice, training, counselor educators, and the profession of counseling.
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  • 2021-12-17 to 2023-01-18

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