TPC Journal-V6, Issue 4- FULL ISSUE

The Professional Counselor /Volume 6, Issue 4 365 Table 1 Interview Question Protocol Data and Rationale Draft Interview Questions Prompts and Elicitations Values (gaining perceptions) 1. What does wellness mean to you? Wellness, health, well-being Beliefs, Values (learning expectations, perceptions) 2. What influences wellness in counselors? Counselor-specific wellness Values (gaining perceptions) 3. What is the most important aspect of wellness? Crucial component(s) Values, (gaining perceptions, opinions) 4. Is wellness the same or different for everyone? Wellness looks like . . . individualized Experiences, Values (what influences clients) 5. Does wellness influence your supervisees’ client(s)? Wellness impacts clients, or supervisees’ clients Experiences, Values (gaining information on standards of wellness and if they are being upheld) 6. Do you feel your supervisees uphold to standards of wellness in the counseling field? Meeting standards, CACREP, ACA Ethics Beliefs, Experiences (expectations of supervisors, experiences) 7. What does unwellness in counseling supervisees look like? Depiction of unwellness Beliefs, Experiences (expectations, experiences of seasoned counselors) 8. What does unwellness in counselors-in-the field look like? Unwellness “picture” Values, Beliefs (gaining other information relating to wellness) 9. Is there anything else you would like to tell me about wellness? Personal wellness philosophy Note: Draft Interview Questions were used in all participant interviews. Data Analysis The researchers followed Creswell’s (2013a) suggested eight steps in conducting phenomenological research: (a) determining that the research problem could best be examined via a phenomenological approach (e.g., discussed the phenomenon of wellness and its relation to the counseling field and in the supervision of counselors); (b) identifying the phenomenon of interest (wellness); (c) bracketing personal experiences with the phenomenon; (d) collecting data from a purposeful sample; (e) asking participants interview questions that focused on gathering data relating to their personal experiences of the phenomenon; (f) analyzing data for significant statements (horizontalization; Moustakas, 1994) and developing clusters of meaning; (g) developing textural and structural descriptions from the meaning units; and (h) deriving an overall essence. In order to maintain organization, the researchers implemented color-coding of statements by selecting one color for initial significant statements or codes (e.g., step f), another color for textural descriptions (e.g., what participants experienced in step g) and a final color to represent structural descriptions (e.g., how participants experienced the phenomenon in step g) of the data (Creswell, 2013a). Finally, the researchers determined an overall essence (step h) based on the structural descriptions of the participants’ interview transcriptions.