Abstract:
This mixed methods study aimed at examining the effectiveness of incorporating Brahmavihara 4 into the clinical supervision process: how it created an impact on counselor trainees self-efficacy, self-criticism, and PANNA. A Single-case Experimental Design method was employed in the quantitative study, while Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) method was employed in the qualitative study. Participants were 8 counselor trainees who participated in clinical supervision with Brahmavihara 4. Results indicated that the Brahmavihara 4 clinical supervision significantly increased the participants self-efficacy and significantly decreased their level of self-criticism. However, some of the participants did not benefit from the supervision program in the quantitative study. For the qualitative study, data analysis resulted in 3 themes: (1) during the clinical supervision, including supervision experience and self-perception gained from the program, (2) self-observation and self-awareness including the internal observation and awareness and the observation and awareness learned from the model, (3) understandings gained from the observation and awareness and living with new feelings.