IJSP Number 1, 2019

21 within the same association, where the training program started, in the same therapeutic orientation (in this case, integrative psychotherapy), because clear and firm objectives were proposed, their supervision needs were taken into consideration, they received the required structure, they received guidance, advice and direction. Thus, it is possible to explain this continuation of studies within an association (AIRCP), which comes from another part of the country, to Bucharest, where there are numerous professional training associations. Establishing and negotiating clear and specific objectives with the supervisees refers to: - how training in supervision is realized; - how individual and group supervision sessions are developed; - which are the association demands; - what does the supervisee receive and what does he/she offer; - what is asked from the supervisee from the research point of view; - what materials are presented at the beginning, during and at the end of supervision etc. For the supervisor, there is a risk to provide “too much structure” by losing sight of objective precisely because of the too much pressure for structure coming from the supervisee. Growing flexibility in supervision, from the supervisor to the supervisee is essential for the maintaining of a balance. The need for clear and stable objectives can also be explained by market dominance of some trends in psychotherapy. Simply inspecting the training market in psychotherapy, a dominance of cognitive behavioural psychotherapy is emphasized, but also a revival of psychoanalysis. On the Bucharest training market, one can also observe therapeutic orientations promoted by the academic staff, which comes into permanent contact with the students. Didactic personnel members are models of therapists for future trainees in a certain therapeutic orientation, and if that person is also a trainer with a therapeutic school, he/she has a great chance of coalescing students around him as future students in the therapeutic school that promoted. It seems difficult for an association that offers training in another city, to promote courses in a relatively new therapeutic orientation, to increase the number of student groups, to start new groups of supervision, even with students from other associations of the same therapeutic orientation. However, by meeting the students’ need for structure, by setting common and predetermined objectives in advance, by cultivating and insisting on a practitioner-student attitude, positive results can appear. As regards the central area of the country, the situation is explained as follows: although many therapeutic orientations have penetrated the training market, few have managed to hold their position for various reasons (difficulty in trainer’s travels, difficulties in establishing a fixed course program, local trainers, etc.). The supervisees’ need in this area refers to “asking for” clear objectives and it is understood thought the fear of not failing, as in the case of other courses. The