The supervisions help the supervisees to clarify and learn how to do appropriate conceptualizations of their own patients and to strengthen and expand on the clinical strategies that were taught during the classes. The supervisor will teach colleagues some clinical strategies that were not included during the standard 40-hour training. The supervisee will be asked to do role plays with the supervisor and/or with his/her co-supervisee. Colleagues will watch more video recordings of simulated and/or real sessions that were not shown during the basic training. Supervisees will have the chance to learn how to intervene when unexpected and challenging clinical situations show up (especially when using experiential approaches).
The objective is to enable the supervisee to conceptualize his/her own patients, to choose the appropriate clinical strategy (e.g. not to use an experiential approach when it is more convenient to use a cognitive approach). The supervisee will also be helped to correctly apply the chosen approach. During these meetings the therapist’s various clinical cases will be discussed (based on descriptions of sessions, video recordings and conceptualizations) and the supervisee will be helped to choose one or two patients to apply for certification at the standard or advanced level, respectively. Dr. Patricia Escudero Rotman will guide you through the certification process. She has helped many colleagues to become schema therapists at a standard and advanced level, respectively.
