| Novice counselors just enter the door of professional psychological counseling and begin to receive formal and systematic training, but as beginners they have not gained enough skills and experience. Novice counselors’growth is related to future development quality of counseling, and subjective experience and coping styles at this stage will, to a great extent, determine their future career development. An essential part of becoming qualified counselors is receiving supervision, and group supervision is the most common form of supervision participated in among novice counselors.Positive and fruitful relationship has a significant effect on successful supervision, and group supervision possesses complex and hierarchical relationship. This study aimed to explore a model, which illustrated both influencing factors of group supervision relationship of novice counselors and role dimensions of that relationship played to novice counselors’growth.This study adopted qualitative research paradigm based on Constructing Grounded Theory to interview ten novice counselors whose counseling experience were no more than two years, and then encoded the interview materials. The results demonstrated that:1. The group supervision relationship of novice counselors is influenced by three factors:1) Influence of the supervisor which contains personal qualities, competency, behavior and coping, and orientation, counseling style and way of working;2) Influence of peers which contains needs of different levels, difference of counseling experience, individual difference, and behavior and coping;3) Influence of other aspects which contains absence and late, whether the supervision goal is clear, whether set and structure are strict, and time resource management, etc.2. Group supervision relationship of novice counselors plays an important role in supervisees’ growth through three dimensions as follows:1) interpersonal distance;2) group dynamics;3) emotional experience. |
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