IJSP Number 1, 2019

28 3.4. THE SUPERVISORY WORKING ALLIANCE INVENTORY (SWAI) – SUPERVISEE [5] The Supervisory working alliance inventory (SWAI) – Supervisee was conceived by Efstation, J.F, Patton, M.J. & Kardash, C.M. [5], and its role is to underline the working alliance in supervision and its impact on learning during supervision. Studies have shown that a strong working alliance is related to the supervisee’s increased efficacy [5] and with a positive therapeutic alliance [17]. The results of this inventory applied to the sample of composed of supervisees and independents therapists are as follows: Table 5 Characteristic averages of the Supervisory working alliance inventory (SWAI) – Supervisee according to geographic areas Variable Chi-square χ 2 p Relation 5,362 0,068 Client 4,919 0,085 After the third hypothesis was verified, no significant differences were registered when taking into consideration the element: The supervision alliance (from the supervisee’s perspective), during a comparison on geographical areas, the statistical significance thresholds being higher than the limit of a statistical significance. Thus, the third hypothesis was not confirmed. 4. STUDY CONCLUSIONS The study was realized with the participation of supervisees and independent therapists from the Association of Integrative Research, Counselling and Psychotherapy from three different geographic areas of the country: the Capital (Bucharest), the west side of the country (Timisoara and Resita) and the centre of the country (Hunedoara and Deva). By the hypotheses proposed, the study sought to find differences related to geographic areas, related to supervisor evaluation and surveillance styles. Of the three hypotheses of the study, the first was fully confirmed, the second was partly confirmed, and the third was not confirmed. Thus, according to the first hypothesis, differences were observed when evaluating the supervision (setting objectives and feedback) on geographical areas: