Repairing the ruptured supervisory alliance: Humility as a foundational virtue in clinical supervision
In this article we contend that supervisor humility is a critical variable in making rupture repair increasingly likely and give consideration to how that is so. Humility is defined and its research is briefly summarized. Humility's definition is then applied to supervision, specific ways by which supervisors display humility in the supervision relationship are identified, and some researchable supervisor humility hypotheses are proposed. Two case examples are presented, one showing the effects of a lack of supervisor humility in instigating alliance rupture, the other showing the power of supervisor humility in instigating alliance repair.