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How Counselor Supervisors Experience Client Suicide

Ribnik, Emily Louise Edmison
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1699611133942401

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2023, PHD, Kent State University, College of Education, Health and Human Services / School of Lifespan Development and Educational Sciences.
This qualitative phenomenological study explored the experiences of counselor supervisors who had a supervisee’s client die by suicide while under their supervision. As this was a phenomenological study to do an initial exploration of a new phenomenon of study, Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis, or IPA, was utilized (Smith et al., 2009). The analysis process allowed the researcher to identify emergent themes from the participants and find meaning in those themes (Smith et al., 2009). The research question was: “How do counselor supervisors experience the suicide death of a supervisee’s client?” Participants were recruited from states that identify counselor supervisors with an “S” based on the counselor board rules and regulations for supervisor designation, license, and endorsement. Participants engaged in one 2-hour interview and one follow-up email to explore their experiences after a client of a supervisee had died by suicide. The resulting data were analyzed using guidelines for IPA. The emergent themes of participant experiences are presented from the study. Implication and recommendations from the themes are discussed, including a model for supervision after the suicide death of a supervisee’s client. Recommendations for future research and limitations of the study are also presented.
Martin Jencius (Committee Chair)
Maureen Blankemeyer (Committee Member)
John Rainey (Committee Co-Chair)
198 p.
Counseling Education
suicide; counselor supervision; supervision; after suicide; supervision after suicide; supervision model

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  • Ribnik, E. L. E. (2023). How Counselor Supervisors Experience Client Suicide [Doctoral dissertation, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1699611133942401

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Ribnik, Emily. How Counselor Supervisors Experience Client Suicide. 2023. Kent State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1699611133942401.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Ribnik, Emily. "How Counselor Supervisors Experience Client Suicide." Doctoral dissertation, Kent State University, 2023. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1699611133942401

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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