IJSP Number 1, 2019

22 fact that the students continued their supervision in the therapeutic orientation, helps integrative psychotherapy to take root in a disadvantaged area (Hunedoara, Deva), but also emphasizes the need for structure that has been satisfied. This idea is reinforced by the fact that the first group of integrative psychotherapy training started training in 2012, with an impressive number of trainees, 15 people, and during the course the students started to give up, due to financial, personal reasons and the training programs was graduated only by 6 trainees. The second training group, organized in the same area, but in another city, Deva, started the training program with 13 trainees, and for the supervision program only 10 graduated, thus proving a lower risk of drop out. Therefore, financial difficulties, the difficult mobility of trainers are impediments for a training association to penetrate and stay on the market in the area. The trainers did not have difficulty any in travelling, the established meetings were respected, the established objectives were met, all of which allowed the continuation of the supervision program, regardless of financial difficulties. The independent and supervised therapists from this disadvantaged area are distinguished from the other areas, by the large number of clients in therapy. So focusing on objectives during the supervision period keeps the trainees’ interest and stimulates the overcoming of obstacles that may lead to courses drop out. On the third place, in a descending order of the values obtained, the west of the country (Timisoara and Resita) maintains its position. The explanation seems to be a simple one: most supervisees know the trainer before starting the training and supervision courses. Also, the headquarters of the training association is in Banat, in Timisoara. Thus, the supervisees’ needs may have been “partially satisfied” and leave the supervisor to solve problems, precisely because he/she is known by the trainees. Some of the trainees were even the supervisor’s students. Also, the first training group was started in the town where the supervisor lived for a long time, inter-knowledge between the trainees and the supervisor existed for a period of time. The first supervision group lived the “pride” that it also represented the first training group of the supervisor. In Romania we also have a saying about the west side of the country, stating that “Banat is the forehead of the country and the Ardeal is the shoe”. The fact that this group was the first to graduate was especially mentioned by peers, and when the feedback offered by the supervisor was less positive, it wasn’t received with joy. Still, there is no perfect supervision, if there were than I will be a bad supervisor! If the Banat area is not characterised by too much pressure on objectives, a pressure of the reminder that this was “the first” group, with the attributes of merit that both the trainees and the trainer or supervisor have “grown together”, can be clearly observed. The supervisor has to permanently maintain the role of a nurturing mother, fact which was not realized especially during the supervision