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RISKS AND SIDE EFFECTS OF SUPERVISION A SYNOPSIS FROM RESEARCH-PROJECTS OF SUPERVISION & COACHING AT THE DANUBE UNIVERSITY KREMS (AUSTRIA) ——o— BRIGITTE SCHIGL ABSTRACT The article gives a synopsis over different research projects on the theme of risks and unwanted effects of supervision, which were conducted at the Department of Psychotherapy and bio-psycho-social Health at the Danube University in Krems. It discusses data from the perspective of experienced supervisors as well as from supervisees. The data are as well qualitative research outcome (interviews, focus groups) as quantitative data from an online questionnaire for supervisees. It shows, that it is very well possible that supervision can do harm to supervisees and discusses the sources of these injuries. SUPERVISION RESEARCH The heterogeneous Field of Supervision and Coaching Supervision is a young discipline, which has just started its scientific career. Over the last ten to fifteen years until now we got diverse research results from supervision — the shortcoming is, that they are spread and discontinuous’ — like the different views and definitions of supervision and coaching themselves. An overview of the international scientific work in the field of supervision? came to the result, that there is nothing like “the supervision”, no coherent definition of the format; The European Leonardo project “ECVision” is the genius reaction of European supervision stakeholders, the ANSE?, to develop a European System of Comparability and Validation of Supervisory ! Rolf Haubl - Brigitte Hausinger (eds.), Supervisionsforschung: Einblicke und Ausblicke, Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2009. ? Hilarion Petzold — Brigitte Schigl — Martin Fischer - Claudia Höfner, Supervision auf dem Prüfstand. Wirksamkeit, Forschung, Anwendungsfelder, Innovation, Opladen, Leske & Budrich, 2003. 3 Association of National Organizations for Supervision in Europe, www.anse.eu
