IJSP Number 6, 2024

71 differences for mindfulness, high levels of problem solving, restructuring and behavioral change, and self-reflexivity for supervisees? Therapists who completed the OIS scale [11] as mentioned, are in the supervision program and in group supervision sessions or individual sessions are familiar with the aforementioned tool Pyramid of Supervision but also with the Critical Events Model developed by Ladany, Friedlander and Nelson [9]. The supervisees were introduced to the model and told that the supervision will follow the framework behaviours of the model: exploration of the supervisee's feelings, focus on the therapeutic relationship, focus on countertransference, focus on the supervision alliance and focus on parallel processes. We briefly describe the behaviors of the critical events model: - Exploring the supervisee's feelings about the client they are working with - the supervisee focuses here and now on the supervisee's feelings about the client, the therapeutic process, the supervision process, the supervisee's progress, the supervisee's personal issues. Relevant questions for exploring the supervisee's feelings and gaining insights are: How do you feel about the client? How would you describe the therapeutic relationship with your client? What was the moment in therapy when you felt most affected? How do you think the client felt at that time? How did you feel before the client came to therapy? How do you feel after you have finished therapy with your client? Prioritise the feelings you have about the client. - Focus on the therapeutic relationship - the supervisor focuses on and invites the therapist into explicit discussions about the therapeutic relationship, whether or not the therapist intended to invite the client to be a co-therapist/co-researcher in therapy, what characteristics of the therapist would influence the therapy and the therapeutic relationship, etc. Questions asked of the supervised therapist to gain insights are: How do you collaborate with the client? What were the goals set with the client? Were there any difficulties in setting tasks? What role do you think the client assigned you? What role do you think you have predominantly played so far in therapy with the client? How authentic have you been in your interaction with the client? What have you done to provide reassurance to the client in therapy? - Focus on countertransference - the supervisor discusses with the supervisee how the supervisee's feelings or personal problems are triggers for the client's behaviour, attitude. Sometimes the supervised therapist also mentions in the case formulation about emotions, feelings they are aware of concerning the supervisee. - Useful exploratory questions for gaining insights from the supervisee are: what was the emotion, the strongest feeling you felt towards the client? How did you manage that feeling/emotion for yourself and in