IJSP Number 6, 2024

62 implicit) and involves both a sense of novelty (i.e. the client understands something in a new way) and making connections (e.g. understanding the relationship between past and present events, therapist and others, cognition and affect or disparate states). Therefore, most of us agreed that we could define insight as a conscious change in meaning involving new connections (e.g., "this is related to that" or some sense of causality) (p.442). According to Castonguay and Hill [5], insight has several characteristics that will be outlined in the following lines: Complexity (e.g. richness, number of neural connections, degree of elaboration of a schema, scope of understanding, degree of integration of different elements, level of abstraction or depth); Intensity of feelings, emotions that are triggered in the client upon receiving insight; Sudden or gradual nature of insight acquisition, the therapist needs intuition to assess the most appropriate moment for the client to have insight, as a discovery of her/him own. Another relevant aspect of insight is the visual metaphors the client has when discovering things that make sense to them:" wow, now I see....", " yeahaa, I see so clearly now...." or "yes, I feel in my body now how the tension is going away from....", "I feel how I relax and how it goes away. Clients speak in visual, sensory metaphors to describe their insight and to take steps towards change together with the psychotherapist. The quality of insight is given by: accuracy (how well the insight matches the client's experience), coherence, consensus (how well the client and therapist agree with the client's insight), usefulness (does the insight gained help or not). In the literature, we identified another study that studied insight [6] on a sample of 123 Australian psychologists, of whom 80.5% were female and 17.9% were male, and 2 participants did not report their gender (1.6%). In this study, the Self-Reflection and Insight Scale (SRIS) instrument was validated, which shows us that there is a growing interest in measuring insight for psychologists as well, not just clients. The concern of the authors in the present study is to determine whether during the min 2-year period of psychotherapy supervision, the insight of the supervised psychotherapist develops using supervision tools. When we refer to supervision tools, we mean what we do and apply in working with supervisees in individual and group supervision sessions. Thus, in individual and group supervision, we usually use a tool presented by Watkins, Callahan and Vîșcu [7] and developed in a later paper [8]. In the supervision stage, we present to the supervised therapists different models of supervision, we support the supervisees with synthetic sheets to be filled in after the supervision session by the supervised therapist (sheet of questions formulated by the supervisor, mentioning the most relevant questions, sheet of answers formulated by the supervisee to the questions in the previous sheet, etc.). We also paid attention to the Critical Events Model developed by Ladany, Friedlander and Nelson's [9], we operationalized the model