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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 University 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 +16 +
