A qualitative study of experts' conceptualizations of supervisee reflectivity.

Reflectivity in its most basic sense is focused contemplation and has been touted as an important skill for professionals in practice. As part of an effort to form an integrated theory of reflectivity as it occurs in clinical supervision, 5 experts in practitioner development were interviewed about the attributes of supervisee reflectivity. Respondents' statements from initial interviews were categorized and presented to respondents for discussion in a 2nd set of interviews. Grounded theory analysis (A. Strauss & J. Corbin, 1990) was used to derive a set of final categories. These categories included (a) casual conditions of new information and uncertainty ; (b) intervening conditions of supervisee personality, supervisee cognitive capacity, and supervision environment ; (c) the process of the supervisee's search for understanding of phenomena in the counseling session ; and (d) change in the supervisee's perception, behavior, or long-term growth.