Examination about empathy insufficient experience of the counselor through the supervision

Abstract

　　It is found that empathy has a good influence for the therapeutic effect and the curative effect in a clinical scene. However counselors may not empathize with the contents of all clients. Kakuta (1998) proposed ‘insufficient sharing’ and ‘sufficient sharing’, which lead to mature empathy. Accordingly, it is important how therapists deal with insufficient sharing experience.

　　Where also, Super Vision become important but there is little concrete knowledge that focused on Super Vision. In addition, although the good use of counselors’ feelings are effective in psychotherapy sessions, it is pointed out that novice counselors get easily confused about their own feelings. It seems that there are different processes between the novice counselor and skilled counselor, facing to their own feelings and insufficient shared experience.

　　In this study, the author focused on the insufficient shared experience in a clinical setting of counselors, and aimed to investigate the process of dealing with insufficient shared experience of counselors. A preliminary investigation was conducted.