Supervision & Training
Focused on the critical role of supervision in the training of psychotherapists, this section offers resources and best practices for both supervisors and supervisees to enhance the learning experience and ensure the delivery of high-quality care.
158 articles found
The Role of Empathic Listening in Rupture-Repair Training
The association between the therapeutic alliance and outcome is now well-established and widely known (Flückiger et al., 2018), highlighting a need to better understand the factors that influence the quality of the alliance. Thinking around therapists’ capacities to establish and maintain the alliance has grown increasingly sophisticated, as researchers have long-investigated ruptures and repairs in […]
Shannon L. McIntyre, Ph.D.
April 9, 2023
The Supervision Experience for an International Therapist Trainee Working in Her Second Language
Psychotherapy involves talk, regardless of theoretical foundations. Therapist and client(s) engage in verbal, non-verbal, and paraverbal exchanges to communicate about their experiences and co-create meanings of the experiences. The exchanges between two or more people can be so powerful that they can facilitate clients’ desired changes. The beauty and science of the therapeutic conversation has […]
Mira An
January 5, 2023
How to teach students to live life as a psychologist: Embedding a self-care perspective into psychology training
In discussing the training of surgeons Campbell wrote, “In the classical training program we have taught how to perform surgery, but we have not taught how to live life as a surgeon” (2001, p. 702). How well have we taught our psychology students to live life as a psychologist? Ideally, our students will learn to […]
Samuel Knapp, Ed.D., ABPP
January 5, 2023
The Impact of “Homework” Practice on Results for Digital Therapeutics
This is article part of a series of articles exploring methods for improving the results for the online program. This article investigates whether completion of home assignments is associated with greater improvement on well researched self-report outcome questionnaires for adults utilizing an online self-directed cognitive behavioral therapy program. Results suggest that completion of homework assignments […]
George (Jeb) S Brown, Ph.D. + 1 more
October 23, 2022
Helping Skills Training
This video covers a review of the research on the efficacy of the Hill model of helping skills as well as research on the efficacy of specific skills included within the training model.
Clara Hill, Ph.D.
September 16, 2022
Telehealth Training Considerations in a Community Healthcare Setting
Many articles have been written about the logistical transition to telehealth in training as a result of COVID-19 (Bell et al., 2020; Hames et al., 2020; Rosen, Glassman & Moreland, 2020; Perrin et al., 2020; Scharff, et al., 2020, Tarlow et al., 2020). Chenneville and Scwartz-Mette (2020) as well as Desai et al., (2020) write […]
Chelsea McIntosh, PsyD + 5 more
August 14, 2022
What Do Suicidal Patients Want from Their Psychotherapists?
Effective psychotherapies, including treatments for suicidal patients, rely heavily on relationship skills for their success (Norcross & Lambert, 2018). Unfortunately, many suicidal patients have reported that their providers have not always displayed those essential relationship qualities (e.g., Blanchard & Farber, 2020; Hom et al., 2020; Hom et al., 2021; Richards et al., 2019a; Richards et […]
Samuel Knapp, Ed.D., ABPP
July 31, 2022
Member Focus: Jake Jackson-Wolf
Member Interview with Jacob Jackson-Wolf, LCPC. Jake joined the Society as a student member and is Chair of the Professional Practice Committee (2022). Jake earned his Master of Education in Counseling and Human Services from Lehigh University and a post-master’s certificate in Professional Counseling from the University of Baltimore. Jake’s clinical experiences include work in […]
Jake Jackson-Wolf, LCPC
June 12, 2022
Practicing Appropriate Responsivity
Resistance is a phenomenon that tends to be universally dreaded by therapists. Therapists have described feeling frustrated, confused, guilty, and hurt after disagreement with their clients, and can even end up doubting their competence (Coutinho et al., 2011). Not only this, but it is well-documented that conflict will return if it is not effectively addressed […]
Lauren Poulin, MA + 2 more
April 10, 2022
Abuse in Academia
History of Abuse in Academia and Universities Academia has a long-standing history of allowing dangerous, and potentially unlawful, behavior to continue without significant intervention. Jobs may be ensured due to the weight a faculty’s name carries, their ability to bring in funding, or after obtaining tenure. Additionally, faculty members protect each other from missteps. For […]
Zoe Ross-Nash, PsyD
March 27, 2022
Self-Care for Graduate Students
You don’t need us to tell you this, but graduate school is a very challenging, demanding, and stressful time. While it hopefully is one of the most exciting, stimulating, and invigorating times of your life, you also must contend with stressors associated with being a graduate student as well as those in your personal life, […]
Jeffrey E. Barnett, Psy.D., ABPP + 1 more
March 24, 2022
The Quest for Evidence-based Training
“Evidence-Based” Training? Research is important in the scientific field of psychotherapy, where we like to think of ourselves as “scientist-practitioners” who provide “evidence-based practice” (Overholser, 2012). However, when it concerns our professional training, this research emphasis appears to be conveniently forgotten. Therapists tend to spend many hours of their career in professional training, not only […]
Katie Aafjes-van Doorn, Psy.D.
March 24, 2022