Competency Based Training for Clinical Supervisors

Loredana-Ileana Vıscu is a psychologist and a psychotherapist, a university professor at the Tibiscus University of Timisoara, Romania and a trainer and a supervisor within the Institute of Psychotherapy, Psychological Counseling and Clinical Supervision. Her main professional interests focus on psychotherapy, psychotherapy supervision and training in Integrative Psychotherapy. She is the chief editor of the International Journal of Supervision in Psychotherapy and the co-author A Guide to Clinical supervision (with Clifton Edward Watkins Jr.). She is a member of the Romanian Psychologists’ College, a trainer and supervision with EAIP (European Association of Integrative Psychotherapy); EAP psychotherapist. Ioana-Eva Cădariu is a psychologist and psychotherapist, trained in integrative psychotherapy, emotionally focused therapy and family and systemic therapy. She is the director of the Counseling and Career Orientation Centre from the Tibiscus University of Timisoara, where she is also an assistant. She is a member of the International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy, of the Romanian Psychologists’ College and of the Romanian Psychotherapy Federation and the vice-president of the Institute of Psychotherapy, Psychological Counseling and Clinical Supervision Clifton Edward Watkins, Jr., is Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of North Texas, Denton, and a trainer and a supervisor within the Institute of Psychotherapy, Psychological Counseling and Clinical Supervision. His primary professional interests focus on psychotherapy supervision and psychoanalytic theory, practice, and research. His specific supervision interests focus on psychoanalytic, trans-theoretical, and common factors perspectives. He is editor of the Handbook of Psychotherapy Supervision (1997), co-editor (with Derek Milne) of the Wiley International Handbook of Clinical Supervision (2014), and co-author (with Loredana-Ileana Vıscu) of A Guide to Clinical supervision (2021). He is a Fellow of Divisions 29 (Psychotherapy) and 17 (Counseling Psychology) of the American Psychological Association.

• I. TRAINING PROGRAM FOR SUPERVISORS1. The Competencies Schema2. Supervision models based on competencies3. Competency-based training program for supervisors developed by Vîșcu, Cădariu and WatkinsII. THE SUPERVISOR’S COMPETENCIES DERIVED FROM THE INTELLECTUAL ORDER TRANSVERSALCOMPETENCIES4. Updating with new information in the supervision domain5. Solving issues in supervision6. Learning, research, publishing studies in the supervision domainIII. THE SUPERVISOR’S COMPETENCIES DERIVED FROM THE METHODOLOGICAL ORDER TRANSVERSAL COMPETENCIES7. Managing individual and group supervision session8. Relational breathing9. Pedagogical competencies10. ICT competenciesIV. THE SUPERVISOR’S COMPETENCIES DERIVED FROM THE PERSONAL AND SOCIAL ORDER TRANSVERSAL COMPETENCIES11. Professional engine12. Professional model13. Becoming a mythV. THE SUPERVISOR’S COMPETENCIES DERIVED FROM THE COMMUNICATION ORDER TRANSVERSAL COMPETENCIES14. Flexible communication. Multicultural communication, cultural humility and sensitivity in supervision15. Online and digital communication in live supervision. Case studies16. Email supervisionVI. ETHICS IN TRAINING PROGRAMS FOR PSYCHOTHERAPISTS AND CLINICAL SUPERVISORS17. Ethics in training programs18. Ethical models in psychotherapy and clinical supervisionVII. THE MIXED STANDARD RATING SCALE FOR THE CLINICAL SUPERVISOR AND THE TRAINER SUPERVISOR’S VULNERABILITY – CASE STUDIES19. The Mixed Standard Rating Scale for the clinical supervisor – Study.20. Analysis between MSRS professional dimensions and the Competencies Schema (Vîșcu and Watkins, 2021)21. The trainer supervisor, the supervisor’s and the supervisee’s vulnerability VIII. A PEDAGOGICAL APPROACH TO TRAINING PROGRAMS FOR SUPERVISORS AND PSYCHOTHERAPISTS22. Introduction to a pedagogical approach to training programs for supervisors and psychotherapists23. The professional training provider for psychotherapy/ supervision training programs24. Historical incursion on adult pedagogy and conceptual delimitations25. The trainers’ mentoring and coaching26. Adult pedagogy. Adult education. Educational strategies. Evaluation types.