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What do excellent psychotherapy supervisors do?

S B Shanfield1, K L Matthews, V Hetherly

  • 1Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas, Health Science Center, San Antonio 78284-7792.

The American Journal of Psychiatry
|July 1, 1993
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Excellent psychotherapy supervisors focus on residents' concerns, fostering patient understanding and knowledge construction. This approach guides effective supervision strategies for trainees.

Area of Science:

  • Psychology
  • Psychotherapy Education
  • Clinical Supervision

Background:

  • Identifying effective psychotherapy supervision strategies is crucial for training.
  • Previous research rated supervisor excellence based on videotaped sessions.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To discover teaching strategies employed by psychotherapy supervisors recognized as excellent.
  • To analyze the characteristics of high-rated versus low-rated supervision sessions.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of session transcripts from a prior study rating supervisor excellence.
  • Comparison of transcripts from highest-rated, mid-level, and low-rated supervision sessions.

Main Results:

  • Excellent supervisors allowed resident narratives to unfold and focused on immediate, affectively charged concerns.

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  • High-rated supervisors guided residents toward patient understanding with specific, sparse technical language.
  • Lower-rated supervisors failed to track resident concerns or inhibited narrative development.

    • Conclusions:

    • Tracking residents' concerns is central to excellent psychotherapy supervision.
    • Supervisory interactions facilitate knowledge construction based on resident-provided data.
    • Findings offer an empirical foundation for training psychotherapy supervisors.