Abstract

The goal of this research was to find out the experience of music therapy supervisors, who had been training clinical practicum in university and graduate school curriculum, and to investigate their components of competencies required while they had provided a supervision to music therapy student supervisee. A total of 10 experienced supervisors who have been active as supervisors for more than 10 years participated in this research and data was collected throughout in-depth interviews. The results were described as follow. Firstly, the experience of music therapy supervisor drawn from the research was identified to be 19 sub-components and 5 components. More specifically, the experience consists of 5 components: ‘being a psychological, physical and social environment for supervisee’, ‘promoting supervisee to grow’, ‘setting the boundaries of supervision’, ‘recognizing imperfection and continuing self-reliant efforts’, and ‘systematizing supervision method and establishing their philosophy’. Secondly, the competency of the music therapy supervisor drawn from the research was identified to be 10 sub-components and 3 components. Specifically the 3 components consisted of ‘competency of theoretical knowledge’, ‘competency for job performance’, and ‘personal qualities and attitude competency’. Among those 3 components, “personal qualities and attitude competency” consisting of respect, support and care for supervisee was considered as the most important and needed one by supervisors.

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