IJSP Number 2, 2020

73 TRAPS RELATED TO ADEQUATE PERCEPTION OF THE PERSON IN THE SUPERVISION RELATIONSHIP COJOCEA Nicoleta 1 1 The Association of Integrative Research, Counselling and Psychotherapy (AIRCP), Emails: cojocean@yahoo.ro Abstract Professional supervision in integrative psychotherapy is a professional activity carried out in the form of a training course, conducted by a practicing psychotherapist with a supervisee free practice certificate in a contractual relationship, with an independent psychologist or specialist certified by coordinating forums, in order to train and develop professional skills adapted to general and integrative psychotherapy in particular. Although supervision is considered the core of the emotional and ethical psychotherapeutic practice, the knowledge we currently have, related to what constitutes a proper supervision, the number of skills and abilities needed to adapt the supervisor’s approach and style to the individual needs of supervised persons, are quite limited [1]. Supervision in psychotherapy is a challenge - both personally and professionally - addressed to both parties. Key words: supervisor, supervisee, adequate perception of roles and persons, transfer situations and countertransfer in the supervision relationship 1. INTRODUCTION The present theoretical study aims to encompass the complex process of supervision in psychotherapy on the level related to the adequate perception of the person in the supervision relationship, sensing those elements that can lead or block efficiency in the supervision process and implicitly in psychotherapy. The supervisor’s role is multifaceted by interpersonal sensitivity, acquired knowledge and judicious clinical thinking, moving away from the psychotherapeutic process in relation to the supervisee [2]. The need to develop psychotherapeutic competences requires a framework, sometimes less flexible learning, in which the beginner psychologist and psychotherapist can be first secured by the learned technique, and then go about this in developing the