IJSP Number 2, 2020

38 attachment style, the identification of other behaviours encountered in his / her life or professional environment Step 4 – The identification of the client’s resources built into: o Passions, interests (faith, sports, hobbies, etc.); o The social support network, the people who can provide support; o “Positive exceptions” or modalities, strategies used by the client to manage overcoming other difficult times in personal life. Step 5 – Identification of solutions already tried that maintain the issue, materialized into strategies at the client’s cognitive or behavioural level or those of the environment, which maintain the dysfunctional patterns. It also addresses the “secondary benefits of the disease”. Step 6 – Tasks, homeworks for clients: the supervisor and the supervised therapist jointly establish homeworks for the client. Step 7 - Description of the therapeutic relationship from the supervisee’s perspective to identify the cognitive paths, projection mechanisms and the supervisee’s transfer and countertransference in the relationship with the client. The observations regarding the Model of the 7 steps in clinical supervision, from the author’s perspective are formulated as follows: - The focus is not on the techniques used by the therapist, but on how s/he uses the personality style, how s/he creates the therapeutic alliance, how the therapist’s cognitive schemas are activated in the interaction with the client; - The conceptualization of cases is realized according to the attachment theory, CBT and cognitive schema therapy; - The supervision framework is a relaxing one, in groups of 8-10 participants who meet once a month for 4 hours; - The supervisor shares personal, professional experience with similar cases and discusses professional success and failure; - The supervisor focuses on increasing the confidence of supervisees in what they do from a professional point of view; - The supervisor recommends references, articles, books, or shares from the experience accumulated during conferences, workshops as a participant; - The supervisor monitors the evolution of the case supervised. b. The integrative strategic model of clinical supervision [3] The integrative strategic model of clinical supervision was created by psychotherapist Loredana-Ileana Vîșcu and was published for the first time in Supervizarea în psihoterapia integrativă strategic I [Supervision in integrative strategic psychotherapy] , published by the Junimea Publishing House in 2017 (authors Loredana-Ileana Vîşcu and Oana-Maria Popescu) [3] and was later developed and presented in Modelul integrativ strategic de supervizare [The integrative strategic model of supervision] , a book published by the Publishing House Universul Academic (author Loredana-Ileana Vîşcu) [7].