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Individual Supervision in Couple and Family Therapy
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Training in mental health professions typically requires supervision of therapy provided by the trainee in addition to the standard graduate school didactic information. This training covers areas of ensuring client care, overseeing the clinical and professional development of trainees who are learning couple and family therapy, and serving a gatekeeping function for the field (CFT, e.g., Bernard and Goodyear 2009). Both individual supervision and group supervision are commonly used in graduate and postgraduate training consultation of couple and family therapists, although group supervision is less prevalent in postgraduate training outside of training institutes.
Individual supervision in CFT often includes two trainees and one supervisor, although the combination of one trainee and a supervisor also is common. Accreditation rules (either Commission on Accreditation for Marriage and Family Therapy...
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Nelson, T. (2017). Individual Supervision in Couple and Family Therapy. In: Lebow, J., Chambers, A., Breunlin, D. (eds) Encyclopedia of Couple and Family Therapy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15877-8_647-1
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