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‘Stuckness’ in live supervision: Expanding the therapist's style
Author(s) -
Elizur Joel
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
journal of family therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.52
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1467-6427
pISSN - 0163-4445
DOI - 10.1046/j..1990.00393.x
Subject(s) - supervisor , style (visual arts) , psychology , context (archaeology) , affect (linguistics) , social psychology , process (computing) , family therapy , psychotherapist , medical education , medicine , management , communication , computer science , archaeology , biology , economics , paleontology , history , operating system
‘Stuckness’ in the live supervision of family therapy trainees can be used creatively to affect their style and expand their use of self in therapy. Supervisors, after clarifying the contract with their trainees, need to examine how their therapeutic style is constrained by personal qualities. These personal constraints may be related to generic difficulties in their personal, professional and cultural context. These include anxieties generated by the situation oflive supervision, or learning to increase stress to a greater level than the trainees learned to tolerate in their families of origin. Observing an impasse that is influenced by these qualities, the supervisor, who also analyses his or her part in the process, can change the supervisory relationship.