ABSTRACT

In Chapter 6 , we observed that supervisors historically conceptualized their philosophies of supervision in terms of their preferred models of therapy and taught those models to trainees. Rarely would therapy training be understood as including the supervisor and even more rarely as isomorphic to clinical processes. More recently, we have observed supervisors of specific approaches applying ideas from those approaches to the therapist/client system and the supervisory process. That is, a supervisor using a structural approach would monitor boundaries in the therapist/client system as well as the supervisor/trainee system. However, a current trend is to create overarching models applied to diverse approaches to supervision. For example, in chapter 6 we described Morgan and Sprenkle’s (2007) invitation to use common factors in supervision and the meta-framework approach by Chang.