ABSTRACT
CAT supervision has been practised for many years, but it was not until 2011 that the fi rst attempt to describe a theoretical framework for it was published. Marx (2011) showed how CAT supervision could be understood in terms of CAT concepts. This chapter offers a further, new perspective on CAT supervision, presenting it as a relational approach to psychotherapy supervision, which incorporates the relational principles of the CAT model. The chapter also looks at three other approaches to relational supervision – psychoanalytic, integrative and cognitive – and compares these with CAT supervision. Lastly it considers ‘parallel process’, a supremely relational process in supervision, and recasts this concept in CAT terms.
