ABSTRACT
Self-processing supervision model is a radical departure from the prior two models in that it is structured as a supervisory situation that allows for the expression of both process-note case material from a supervised patient and personal material from the supervisee—thereby providing the means to access every significant level that a supervisee experiences in supervision. In the classical models of psychotherapy and supervision, both responses — direct agreement and the emergence whole-cloth of a directly supportive recollection — are taken as confirmatory responses to therapists' interventions. The superficial validation of the non-adaptive interventions therefore functions to support avoidance and falsifications of the most critical issues and conflicts to which a patient (or supervisee) is reacting in the immediate moment. As a rule, a supervisor's comments and predictions are tested out in the subsequent material from the patient in the same way that unconscious confirmation of a therapist's interventions is sought for in a patient's material in therapy sessions.
