Clinical Practice Documentation and Supervision Requirements
By the end of the fifth year of training, each student / psychotherapist in supervision is required to submit comprehensive documentation reflecting their supervised clinical activity and professional development throughout the training programme.
Students must submit:
- a minimum of 300 therapeutic session protocols, corresponding to at least 300 hours of psychotherapy practice;
- at least 10 supervision protocols;
- at least 10 psychotherapeutic status protocols.
The submitted materials must include a minimum of 10 supervised clinical cases involving different psychopathologies, clinical presentations, relational difficulties, developmental issues, or psychological problems. Students are encouraged to work with a diversity of clients and clinical situations in order to develop integrative clinical understanding, flexibility of intervention, and professional competence across a broad range of therapeutic contexts.
The purpose of these requirements is to support: the integration of theory and clinical practice; the development of case formulation abilities; reflective and ethical practice; therapeutic strategy development; awareness of the therapeutic relationship and process; professional self-reflection and clinical maturity.
The protocols should demonstrate the student’s capacity to: formulate clinical hypotheses; identify therapeutic objectives; apply psychotherapeutic interventions appropriately; reflect upon therapeutic dynamics and difficulties; integrate supervision feedback into clinical work; monitor the development of the therapeutic process over time.
All clinical documentation must strictly respect confidentiality and ethical standards. Students are required to anonymise all identifying information related to clients, including names, locations, workplaces, institutions, and any potentially identifiable personal details.
The supervision and protocol documentation process is considered an essential component of psychotherapy training, contributing to the gradual development of professional identity, clinical reasoning, integrative thinking, and ethical responsibility as a psychotherapist.
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