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Section 2: Supervision

Supervision in Psychotherapy: An Educational Experiment in Integrative Metalearning

Pages 224-233
Published online: 28 Dec 2017
 
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This article describes the background, setting, and realization of an educational experiment in a professional three-year psychotherapy training program. It suggests a model for psychotherapy supervision using integrative metalearning. The high degree of involvement and activity, the equality in the supervision situation, and the focus on contact-making and self-reflection were perceived as being transferred from the supervision to the psychotherapy situation with clients. These factors were also acknowledged as crucial to the effectiveness of the metalearning situation. The positive outcome of this experiment serves as a basis for continuing with supervision from an integrative metalearning perspective.

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Mi Årling

Mi Årling, Ph.L., a licensed psychologist, licensed psychotherapist, and psychotherapy teacher and supervisor, has been in private practice since 1978. Her special area of interest is in methods that can heal wounds from the earliest period in life, including the prenatal period. She is the training director of the Center for Integrative Psychotherapy in Karlstad, Sweden, and an associate member of the Institute for Integrative Psychotherapy, New York. She is also a board member of the Association for Integrative Psychotherapy (EAIP), a member of the Supervision Board for Biosynthesis, a member of the working group for a European Certificate for Psychotherapy, a board member of the European Association for Psychotherapy (EAP), and a board member (vice president) of the World Council for Psychotherapy (WCP).