Volume 17, Issue 3
Placing Clinical Supervision Under a Magnifying Glass
Abstract
This work reflects on the importance of specific training to become a clinical supervisor. Current developments in the field of psychotherapy make it increasingly evident and necessary to consider clinical supervision as a specialty or major in itself, which one can choose, requiring not only practical clinical experience, but also training as well as personal work on one's own identified strengths and weaknesses to practice such a role. In this article, we analyze relevant aspects of the role of supervisor, that apply to all psychotherapeutic orientations, some models used in clinical supervision as well as recurrent and necessary topics of research, such as the supervisors responsibility, the personal work on power and authority issues present in every supervision instance, and the conditions necessary to obtain satisfactory outcomes from the supervisory process.
Keywords
Supervision, training, methodologies, skills, weaknesses