IJSP Number 1, 2019

15 EVALUATION OF THE SUPERVISION PROCESS, STYLES AND ALLIANCE IN INTEGRATIVE PSYCHOTHERAPY. CLINICAL STUDY VÎȘCU Loredana-Ileana 1 , CIUCUR Daniel 2 1 European Association of Integrative Psychotherapy (EAIP), The Association of Integrative Research, Counselling and Psychotherapy (AIRCP), “ Tibiscus” University of Timisoara, Romania, 2“ Tibiscus” University of Timisoara, Romania Emails : loredana.viscu@gmail.com; danielciucur@yahoo.com Abstract Supervision represents an important component of the training program in psychotherapy. The present study was realized inside an association which offers professional training in integrative psychotherapy in Romania. The purpose is to evaluate the supervision process, the supervisor’s style and the supervision alliance in three educational centres belonging to the association. The sample included in this study gathers 46 supervisees and independent therapists, who also represent the first graduate specialists of this association, after the concluding of the training and the personal development stages (the first three years of study) and of the supervision stage (two years after becoming supervisees). The objectives of this study were to identify the proper supervision type for all therapist found in different training centres; to identify the supervision style appropriate for all therapists evaluated and to identify the supervision needs of all therapists who agreed to take part in this study. Conclusions are useful for all supervisions belonging to this association and to improve the activity of supervision groups. Key words : supervision process, supervision style, supervision alliance 1. INTRODUCTION Training in integrative psychotherapy is realized from a theoretical point of view according to the curricula of the integrative strategic model of the self [1], [2], [3]; but from a methodological point of view, integrative psychotherapy is characterized by eclectics (using techniques with origins in different therapeutic orientations). Still, the most important diagnosis instrument remains the therapist.