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Knowledge and practice of Ohio's school administrators regarding student-on-student violence and associated legal liability

Pauken, Patrick

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1997, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, ED Policy and Leadership.

While linguistic analyses of counseling sessions have provided valuable insights into the process of counseling, few such analyses have been conducted of supervisory sessions of counselors. Investigations of the actual behavior (i.e., the interactive discourse) of supervisory sessions would seem to offer a valuable understanding of what actually happens in those sessions, and thus might elucidate the process of becoming a counselor.

This is an investigation of the interactive discourse of supervisory sessions of ten female graduate students in beginning practica. Three supervisors were post-Ph.D. level psychologists, and seven were advanced graduate students in psychology.

Following each session, both supervisors and trainees completed a supervisory session assessment instrument in the semantic differential format. This provided a global evaluation of the sessions as well as ratings of the potency and oriented activity of each session from the perspectives of both participants. Transcripts were made of three ten minute segments from each of three sessions of each supervisory dyad. The Discourse Activity Analysis System (Friedlander, Thibodeau, & Ward, 1985) was used to classify each conversational turn according to its function in directing and controlling the topic of the supervisory hour. The Hill Counselor Verbal Response Category System-Revised (Friedlander, 1982) was used to classify each proposition of the supervisors according to its function in the interaction. The Supervisory Styles Inventory (Friedlander and Ward, 1984) was completed by both supervisors and trainees in order to obtain their perceptions of the supervisors along the dimensions of attractiveness, interpersonal sensitivity, and task orientation.

Trainees preferred sessions in which they were more active, both in terms of total verbal production and in directing the session. Supervisors preferred sessions in which they spoke fewer words. Supervisors who spoke more and who were more active in directing the sessions were rated by both themselves and by the trainees as less attractive and less interpersonally sensitive.

Analyses of individual supervisory dyads revealed unique patterns of verbal interaction and idiosyncratic ratings for each.

Philip T.K. Daniel (Advisor)
E. Gordon Gee (Committee Member)
Wayne K. Hoy (Committee Member)
388 p.

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  • Pauken, P. (1997). Knowledge and practice of Ohio's school administrators regarding student-on-student violence and associated legal liability [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1251218540

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Pauken, Patrick. Knowledge and practice of Ohio's school administrators regarding student-on-student violence and associated legal liability. 1997. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1251218540.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Pauken, Patrick. "Knowledge and practice of Ohio's school administrators regarding student-on-student violence and associated legal liability." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 1997. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1251218540

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)