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BRIGITTE GEIRLER-PILTZ — ÉVA NEMES
Brigitte Schigl, Noah A. Artner from Danube University in Krems, Austria,
Building Science - Building Bridges lead us in their contribution to the
academic field, more specifically to their Department of Psychotherapy and
Biopsychosocial Health. The Department offers continuing education courses
which combine science with the requirements of professional practice and focus
on psychosocial interventions. Their article gives an overview of the empirical
studies and the master theses of supervision and coaching students, and offers
abstracts of the best master theses.
THE COMPLEXITY OF SUPERVISION RESEARCH
Under this heading we raise the issue of research complexity. Zsuzsanna
Mirnics from Karoli Gaspar University, Hungary opens with her down to earth
contribution A Short Overview on Supervision Outcome Research: Methodical
and Practical Issues. She invites us to look into the development of supervision
and supervision research. In doing so, she is mastering the art of selectivity.
She follows and outlines important debates on research, definitional problems,
variability of contexts and influences and its methodology. In an overview,
she emphasizes the effectively measurable and useful findings of research on
supervision, at the same time questioning its weak parts.
In Risks and Side Effects of Supervision Brigitte Schigl from Danube Univer¬
sity in Krems, Austria, accounting for the last 10 to 15 years, offers a synopsis of
the young and heterogeneous discipline of supervision and its diverse research
results. She summarizes that there is nothing like “the supervision”; in other
words: there is no coherent definition of the format. She then mainly focuses
on risks and unwanted effects of supervision. The outcomes of qualitative as
well as quantitative data are leading us to the dark areas of supervision and
coaching. Schigl discusses these risks and side effects from the perspective of
experienced practitioners as well as supervisees, concluding that supervisors
and supervision training institutes should be (more) aware. For the scientific
community Schigl’s outcomes also hold a message: take a look at the dark side
and provide data for evaluation and critical self-reflection.
NEw DEMANDS: ACCELERATION IN THE WORLD OF LABOUR
Two quite different contributions are gathered under this heading, both
focusing on the urgent problem of ‘post-modern labour’. Frank Austermann
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