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Competencies in Clinical Supervision of Psychotherapists in Training.

A recent Special Section of Psychotherapy (2010, Volume 47, Issue 1) provides a series of articles that describe key psychotherapy competencies conceptualized across a range of theoretical models with the aim of articulating specific implications for competency-based psychotherapy training.    The development of professional competencies is increasingly emphasized in the training of psychologists. This series of articles provides [...]

Ask the Ethicist: Supervisors Need Competence Too!

Taline Andonian Asks: As graduate students we receive training not only in academia but in a myriad of different clinical settings, which often lead to a wide range of experiences in terms of supervision. Because of the emphasis that is placed on clinical/practical training for clinical psychology programs in particular a graduate student’s competencies are [...]

Conceptual skills needed for evidence-based practice of psychotherapy

Key ingredients needed for training of evidence-based practice are summarized by Ken Critchfield and Sarah Knox: scientific-mindedness, critical thinking, integrative ability, and relational skill.

Early Career Mentoring

Facilitated by Michael J. Constantino (Early Career Domain Representative) & Rachel Gaillard Smook (Early Career Committee Chair) Division 29 Early Career Mentoring is a feature on the website of the APA Division of Psychotherapy that provides a forum for asking questions broadly related to one’s early career. Through this interactive column, readers will have a [...]

2010 45(1)

Psychotherapy Bulletin 2010, 45(1)

Ask the Ethicist Blog

Ask the Ethicist is a feature on the website of the APA Division of Psychotherapy that provides a forum for asking questions involving ethics and professional practice issues. All psychotherapists face ethically challenging dilemmas and situations in their professional work, whether it be in providing psychotherapy, in conducting research, in supervision or consultation, or in [...]

Conflict in Supervision: Avoidable or Useful?

By Lee Nelson Supervision is a fact of life for most of us.  We experience years of supervision in our professional training sequence and possibly afterward, and many of us move on to becoming supervisors of other professionals.  In their classic text, Coping with Conflict, Mueller and Kell (1972), some of the earliest writers in [...]