The Unsaid II: In‐depth accounts of non‐disclosures in clinical supervision from the supervisor's perspective

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AbstractAimTo offer an in‐depth account of non‐disclosures from the supervisors' perspective, this study sought to explore the supervisor's experience of non‐disclosure within the supervisory relationship.MethodUsing interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA), eight supervisors were interviewed.FindingsFive super‐ordinate themes are focused on in this paper: (a) Supervisor training, (b) Supervisor non‐disclosure, (c) Management of trainee non‐disclosures, (d) Supporting factors for supervisor disclosures, and (e) The effect of non‐disclosures.Conclusion/ImplicationsExploring non‐disclosures from the supervisor's perspective revealed that the supervisor's perceived lack of power and control at the beginning of supervision set the tone for their identification and management of non‐disclosures in the supervisory relationship. A further finding related to how thoughts about non‐disclosure were closely linked to reluctance to supervise and served the purpose of supervisor strategic self‐presentation.