The Relationship Between Supervisee Stress, Coping Resources, the Working Alliance, and the Supervisory Working Alliance

• Published in: Journal of counseling and development Vol. 90; no. 1; pp. 63 - 70
• Main Authors: Gnilka, Philip B., Chang, Catherine Y., Dew, Brian J.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.01.2012; Wiley-Blackwell
• Subjects: Careers; Coping; Correlation; Counseling services; Counselor education; Counselor Performance; Counselor Training; Counselors; Education; Educational Change; Feedback (Response); Individual Characteristics; Life Satisfaction; Measures (Individuals); Mental health; Mental health care; Personal development; Prediction; Problem solving; Quality of life; Regression (Statistics); Self awareness; Social support; Stress; Stress response; Stress Variables; Studies; Supervision; Supervisor Supervisee Relationship; Supervisors; Working Alliance Inventory
• ISSN: 0748-9633; 1556-6676
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1556-6676.2012.00009.x

The authors examined the relationship of perceived stress, specific types of coping resources, the working alliance, and the supervisory working alliance among 232 counselor supervisees. The working alliance and the supervisory working alliance were negatively related to perceived stress and positively related to multiple coping resources. Two regression models for predicting the working alliance and supervisory working alliance from perceived stress and specific coping resources were significant. Implications for practice and research are discussed.