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JELENA LEVINA — KRISTINE MARTINSONE — IVANS JANIS MIHAILOVS —
SANDRA HARTMANE — IRENA UPENIECE
The participants of the pilot study were 28 practicing supervisors: 26 women
and 2 men who practice in different professional fields (7 participants (or 25%)
— social work; 6 participants (or 21.4%) — art therapy; 4 participants (or 14.3%)
— psychotherapy; 5 participants (or 17.9%) — psychology, 3 participants (or
10.7%) — business field, 3 participants (or 10.7%) — education). 24 respondents
(or 85.7%) got the education in supervision or continue to get it. 17 respondents
(or 70.8%) are studying supervision within a continuing education program, 4
respondents (or 16.7%) — within a higher professional education program and
3 respondents (or 12.5%) — within courses.
The data of the study show that the highest percentage of supervisors (60%)
from those who practice without a supervisor’s education, are practicing in the
field of psychology. All of the respondents work as supervisors. 13 respondents
(46.4%) practice supervision for more than 5 years; 5 respondents (17.9%) —
3-4 years; none of the respondents is practicing supervision full time. The
highest number of respondents (14 participants or 50%) have a private practice
in supervision, 5 supervisors (17.9%) practice in the commercial environment,
6 respondents (21.4%) work in the state and government sectors, 3 respondents
(10.7%) have indicated another organizational form of supervisor’s professional
activity.
RESULTS
First the personal values of the supervisors were investigated. It was established
which values were important and which values were more attainable. Descriptive
statistics (M, SD) were calculated. In order to establish whether the importance
and attainability of values of supervisors practicing in different professional
fields differ, a one-way ANOVA was conducted (see Table 1 and Table 2).
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