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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 maximum 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 + 86 +
