Ch. 2-Supervision Models-Psychotherapy-Based And Developmental Models Flashcards
What are 3 broad categories of supervision models?
- Psychotherapy theories
- Developmental models
- Supervision process models
Good supervision must include:
Oversight of whether the counseling is theoretically grounded
How have cog/beh supervisors differed from humanistic, existential, and psychodynamic supervisors?
Cog/beh focus more on skills and strategies.
The others focus more on the supervisory relationship, use more of a therapist role in supervision and more on conceptualization of client problems.
What is the purpose of psychodynamic supervision?
- To teach
- To have supervisee understand how to resolve relational conflicts between supervisor and supervisee to benefit clients.
According to Sarnat (2010), what are 4 categories of supervisee competence?
- Be in relationship with clients and, by inference, with supervisor
- Ability to self-reflect
- Assessment and diagnosis from a psychodynamic framework
- Theoretically consistent interventions and keeping centrality of the therapeutic relationship
What are 3 dimensions of psychodynamic supervision?
- Nature of supervisor’s authority in relationship to the supervisee
A. continuum of authority derived from supervisor’s knowledge base and authority from supervisor’s participation - The supervisor’s focus
A. Client, supervisee, or relationship between supervisor/ee - Supervisor’s primary mode of participation
Re: humanistic supervision, describe “use of self.”
Therapist’s ability to be fully present, transparent, genuine, and accepting with clients
Who is most known for humanistic theory and what was he (and his colleague) the first to report doing in terms of supervision?
- Carl Rogers
2. He and Covner-first to report use of recorded interviews and transcripts in supervision
In humanistic supervision, what were Rogers’ students able to understand when they had direct access to their interviews?
Their tendencies to provide advice and control the sessions.
What is the supervisory stance in humanistic supervision?
The relationship is collaborative, relational and emphasizes development of the person of the supervisee.
Re: cog/beh supervision, what are 2 propositions?
- Therapist performance is a function of skills. Supervision teaches appropriate therapist behaviors and extinguishes inappropriate behavior.
- The therapist role consists of identifiable tasks, each one requiring specific skills. Supervision helps trainee develop and refine these skills.
Re: cog/beh supervision, what are 2 other propositions?
- Therapy skills are behaviorally definable and responsive to learning theory.
- Supervision should employ learning theory principles
In systemic supervision, what is the role of the supervisor?
Stay attuned to dynamics in:
- The family system
- Between family and supervisee
- Between supervisor/supervisee
A particular contribution of systems therapy is that the supervisor and supervisee are:
Active agents in the respective family system
What are 5 essential components of family therapy supervision?
- Developing a systemic formulation
- Helping supervisee form systemic therapeutic alliances w/ each member
- Intro/reinforcing process of reframing
- Assist supervisee with negative interactions in tx
- Applying evidenced-based family tx models
How does Porter define a 4-stage feminist supervision model?
- Guide supervisee to conduct didactic exploration of all aspect’s of client’s problem
- Help supervisee explore client’s social “location,” including oppressions related to this location
- Explore supervisee’s own biases, misconceptions, privileges
- Explore community engagement/interventions at societal level for client’s well-being
In feminist supervisions, what are important aspects of the supervisor/supervisee relationship?
- Collaborative relationship w/ analysis of power
- Relationship is central, includes commitment, availability, respect and willingness to talk about relationship
- Commitment to infusion of social justice principles within the work
What is common among constructivist approaches to supervision?
- Consultative role of supervisor
- Equality between participants
- Focus on supervisee strengths
- Reflective activities for supervisee to find own answers
- Emphasis on self assessment along with supervisor assessment
- Focus on each person’s cultural lens
Describe narrative supervision.
People are “story tellers” who develop stories to organize past experiences and influence future behavior.
How do narrative supervisors interact with supervisees?
- Sub a stance of knowing with a stance of curiosity
2. More likely to be collaborative