title: Exposing operations of power in supervisory relationships.
abstract: Through a poststructural lens, we examine how power may show itself in relationships between supervisees and supervisors, producing both helpful and harmful effects. Drawing from our own experiences, as well as conversations with other members of our supervisory group, we demonstrate how privileged discourses around professional status, gender, and race may bring about difficulties including a sense of doubt, worry, inadequacy, and a fear of speaking up. We also illustrate how these difficulties can be addressed in a manner that may lessen their influence, while increasing supervisees' sense of agency.
authors.affiliation: Pepperdine Community Counseling Center, Irvine, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Laurie
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Markham
authors.forename: Jane
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Chiu
mesh_terms: D005006:Ethnicity; D005239:Fear; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D008297:Male; D008611:Mentors / Q000523:psychology*; D011209:Power, Psychological; D012649:Self Concept; D012737:Sex Factors