Posted by fallsfall on October 11, 2003, at 11:08:59
In reply to Re: Spoke to my therapist today » fallsfall, posted by Dinah on October 11, 2003, at 9:08:39
I think of supervision as getting a second opinion, as having someone not so embroiled in the situation taking a look. I know that when I'm working on something and it isn't going right, or I can't figure it out, that I really like to go and talk to other people about it - especially the "experts" in the field, but also just someone else who can help me think things through. I don't know how many times I have gone to ask someone for help, and by the time I finish explaining the problem I know what the solution is. Or people would come to ask me for help and when they were trying to explain their problem I could tell by the way they were talking where the issue or confusion was (they would hesitate, talk in incomplete sentances, have to keep referring back to other thing to get the details - they weren't SURE about that part.). So I would quiz them on that part to find where the confusion was.
That's all supervision is. I don't think the supervisor is particularly interested in the CLIENT (so it doesn't feel TO ME like an invasion of privacy) - they are more concerned with the work that the therapist is doing. Hey - a second opinion and you don't have to pay for it.
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