A Guide to Clinical Supervision

Loredana-Ileana Viscu is a psychologist and a psychotherapist, a university professor at the Tibiscus University of Timisoara, Romania and a trainer and a supervisor within the Institute of Psychotherapy, Psychological Counseling and Clinical Supervision. Her main professional interests focus on psychotherapy, psychotherapy supervision and training in Integrative Psychotherapy. She is the chief editor of the International Journal of Supervision in Psychotherapy and the co-author A Guide to Clinical supervision (with Clifton Edward Watkins Jr.). She is a member of the Romanian Psychologists’ College, a trainer and supervision with EAIP (European Association of Integrative Psychotherapy); EAP psychotherapist. Clifton Edward Watkins, Jr., is Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of North Texas, Denton, and a trainer and a supervisor within the Institute of Psychotherapy, Psychological Counseling and Clinical Supervision. His primary professional interests focus on psychotherapy supervision and psychoanalytic theory, practice, and research. His specific supervision interests focus on psychoanalytic, trans-theoretical, and common factors perspectives. He is editor of the Handbook of Psychotherapy Supervision (1997), co-editor (with Derek Milne) of the Wiley International Handbook of Clinical Supervision (2014), and co-author (with Loredana-Ileana Viscu) of A Guide to Clinical supervision (2021). He is a Fellow of Divisions 29 (Psychotherapy) and 17 (Counseling Psychology) of the American Psychological Association.

1. The First Supervision Session - Preparing the Way2. The Competencies Standard for the Therapist and the Clinical Supervisor. The Competencies Schema3. The Supervision Pyramid - A Tool for Supervision4. Strategies Used for Every Level of the Supervision Pyramid5. Constructivism in Clinical Supervision. The Supervision Pyramid and the Constructivist Paradigm of Learning6. Benefits, Difficulties in Using the Supervision Pyramid from the Supervisees’ Point of View7. The Rupture and Repair of the Supervision Alliance: When? At What Level? How? In the Supervision Pyramid