TY  - JOUR
A1  - Weck, Florian
A1  - Kaufmann, Yvonne Marie
A1  - Witthöft, Michael
T1  - Topics and techniques in clinical supervision in psychotherapy training
JF  - Cognitive Behaviour Therapist
N2  - Clinical supervision is regarded as one of the most important components of psychotherapy training. In clinical practice, it has been found that the implementation of clinical supervision varies substantially and often differs from the recommendations made in the literature. The objective of the current study was to investigate the frequency of topics (e.g. ethical issues) and techniques (e.g. role play) in the clinical supervision of psychotherapy trainees in Germany. To this end, we considered supervisions in cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) and psychodynamic therapy (PT). A total of 791 psychotherapy trainees (533 CBT and 242 PT) were asked via the internet to provide information about their current supervision sessions. We found that clinical supervision in psychotherapy training addressed topics that are central for the effective treatment of supervised patients (i.e. therapeutic interventions, therapeutic alliance, maintaining factors, and therapeutic goals). However, the most frequently used intervention in clinical supervision in psychotherapy training was case discussion. Rarely were techniques used that allowed the supervisor to give the supervisee feedback based on the supervisee's demonstrated competencies. For example, 46% of the supervisors never used audiotapes or videotapes in the supervision. Differences between CBT and PT were rather small. Current practice regarding the techniques used in clinical supervision for psychotherapy trainees contradicts recommendations for active and feedback-oriented clinical supervision. Thus the potential of clinical supervision might not be fully used in clinical practice.
KW  - clinical supervision
KW  - psychotherapy trainees
KW  - psychotherapy training
KW  - supervisory strategies
KW  - therapeutic competence
Y1  - 2017
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1017/S1754470X17000046
SN  - 1754-470X
VL  - 10
PB  - Cambridge University Press
CY  - Cambridge
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Junga, Yvonne Marie
A1  - Witthöft, Michael
A1  - Weck, Florian
T1  - Assessing therapist development: Reliability and validity of the Supervisee Levels Questionnaire (SLQ-R)
JF  - Journal of clinical psychology
KW  - clinical supervision
KW  - exploratory structural equation modeling
KW  - psychotherapy training
KW  - Supervisee Levels Questionnaire
Y1  - 2019
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1002/jclp.22794
SN  - 0021-9762
SN  - 1097-4679
VL  - 75
IS  - 9
SP  - 1658
EP  - 1672
PB  - Wiley
CY  - Hoboken
ER  -