Supervision takes place during the 4th and 5th years of training and is designed to support beginner psychotherapists as they work with clients or patients. Starting a career in psychotherapy comes with many uncertainties and unknowns. Guidance from experienced colleagues is essential when facing challenges, and support is invaluable when dealing with doubts about one’s professional competence.
Group supervision modules are conducted online and last 15 hours per session. If additional individual supervision is required, you may consult any of our supervisors.
During the supervision period, you will work directly with clients or patients in either private practice or institutional settings. To complete and graduate from supervision, you must accumulate a minimum of 300 client contact hours and submit supervision protocols for at least 10 supervised cases covering various pathologies, for at least 200 hours of supervision.
What Is Supervision
Supervision focuses on consolidating the integration of theory and practice and the development of a professional attitude. Supervisees can have an insight regarding their own clinical activity, and they have the opportunity of discovering what they already do well and what they might improve or replace. Supervision implies respect for the supervisee’s knowledge and experience and emphasizes the way in which the supervisee’s experience is relevant in his/her current professional practice. Supervision is conducted according to the integrative strategic model of psychotherapy. Supervision focuses on consolidating the integration of theory and practical abilities and on a professional conduct. Supervisees will discover what they already do well and what they can improve or change: supervision facilitates insight regarding own clinical activity.
The Analysis of the Therapeutic Spectrum Contains:
The therapeutic relationship: to what extent can the client feel that his/her relationship with the therapist is an important resource he/she can count on. The therapist’s involvement: to what extent can the therapist convey to the client the feeling that the client’s well-being is important to the therapist and that the therapist does all he/she can to help the client solve his/her problems. Resource activation: to what extent can the client experience motivational goals and positive values, abilities and feelings of self-efficacy. Experiencing difficulties: to what extent is the client emotionally involved in discussing his/her difficulties during the therapeutic session. The client’s contribution to discussing own difficulties: how receptive is the client to the therapist’s interventions and to what extent does he/she actively participate in the therapeutic process. The stage of therapeutic interventions: to what extent does the therapist focus on the analysis and understanding of the client’s difficulties and the necessary steps for change and progress.
The General Supervision Plan Focuses On:
Defining the client’s problems: symptoms, mechanisms and causes
Therapeutic objectives
Therapeutic strategy
The unfolding of the therapeutic process: success, failure, difficulties, transference and countertransference, enactments, adapting therapeutic strategy to the cient’s needs, flexibility
Therapeutic outcome
Intervision is organized monthly, online, and is free of charge for ACCPI members. Intervision sessions are of 3-4 hours. Intervision helps in emergency situations or in situations in which you need some quick advice or a short answer. Intervision cannot replace supervision, but can be an additional resource for our students.
Intervision meetings are announced monthly on our Whatsapp group.
