IJSP Number 6, 2024

51 SOLVING SOME PROBLEMS OF THE PSYCHOTHERAPIST THROUGH SUPERVISION Radu RĂDUCAN 1 1 Department of Psychology, Tibiscus University of Timisoara, Timisoara, Romania Abstract The supervision process provides an opportunity to develop the skills, attitudes and attitudes of the supervisee, to prompt the supervisee to reflect on the information, behavior and communication provided during the psychotherapy session and to obtain feedback from the supervisor on strengths, technical suggestions and possibilities for growth and development. Keywords : supervisor, situational supervision The supervision process provides the possibility to develop the skills, abilities and attitudes of the supervisees, to make them reflect on the information, behaviour and communication produced during the psychotherapy session, as well as to obtain feedback from the supervisor regarding their strengths, technical suggestions and growth and development possibilities. Many years ago, the supervisor-therapist relationship was based on the authority of the master over the disciple, a kind of dictatorship where the student/supervised therapist had to follow every little wish or suggestion of the supervisor. The latter was a superman who possessed all the knowledge, skills, attitudes and wisdom, while the supervisee had to do as told without any hesitation or discussion. Nowadays, in most advanced training centers or institutions that provide supervision services, this no longer happens as we live in a society where access to knowledge is almost unlimited, and the prevalence of the teacher over the supervisee is fundamentally based on experience rather than on access to knowledge. Supervision is probably the most important part in the development of a responsible practitioner. There is supervision mainly to facilitate the professional development of the supervisees, regardless of their level of experience, with the goal to improve the therapy outcomes with their clients.