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BRIGITTE SCHIGL — NOAH A. ARTNER
BEST PRACTICE MASTERPIECES
Marianne Schindlecker has done an investigation on communicative skills of
smallholder couples as a part of her master-thesis. Her qualitative empirical
study dealt with four married couples who run small enterprises with a maxi¬
mum of two employees. The research question was: Which communicative skills
have an effect on the relationship at work of a couple running a smallholder
together? The thesis attempts to detect how these couples communicate in
their daily life and how this communication has changed over the years. The
ability to distinguish between operative and private communication has proved
to be essential for a successful communication. Conclusions for counselling
processes are drawn at the end of the thesis.
Bernd Boésel in his philosophical master-thesis deals with the question
“What does Integrity mean?” and focuses on the normative claims of ensuring,
strengthening, reconstituting and creating personal integrity. He is following
the concept of “Caring for Integrity” of the Integrative Therapy approach and
compares integrity with the more frequently used but narrower concept of
dignity. Conclusions from these theoretical reflections are drawn to ensure the
work with clients, which can be relevant to all forms of coaching and therapy
beyond the Integrative Therapy approach.
Surur Abdul-Hussain has done her theoretical masterpiece on the meaning
and performance of gender-competent supervision. She is presenting
a definition of gender-competent integrative supervision and outlines
central discourses of gender-theories which are connected with integrative
supervision. The practical part offers questions for gender-competent reflection
and analysis concerning the supervision processes. It becomes obvious that
gender-competent supervision is a complex task which demands well-grounded
knowledge about gender theories, systematic self-reflection on gender issues
and multi-perspective analysis. Sabine Karlinger continued the research by
asking supervisees about the gender-competence of their supervisors.
Manfred Kolar’s master-thesis deals with supervision in the field of
psychiatry. His research is part of a European multi-centre study on the quality
of supervision in psychiatric hospitals in the view of the supervisees. The aim of
the quantitative research study was to evaluate the effectivity of supervision, the
experienced benefits and the risks and ‘side effects’ within the past 6 months,
and the expectations from supervision in clinical psychiatry. Multidisciplinary
teams (nurses, doctors, counsellors, psychologists and others) were surveyed
in 9 psychiatric clinics in Austria. A total sample of 300 persons answered
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