Supervision

Interns receive weekly individual supervision from three supervisors and one-hour supervision for each group with their co-leader. The supervisory staff consists of psychologists, psychiatrists, and a social worker, all of whom have extensive experience in college mental health. Many of the supervisors have a psychodynamic orientation, strongly influenced by object relations and self-psychology. Several supervisors are also guided by systems and developmental theories, and have backgrounds in DBT and CBT approaches. Interns routinely audio- or video-tape sessions with clients. This provides trainees and supervisors with an opportunity to review sessions in depth. Additional unscheduled supervision is available when needed.

Group Supervision of Clinical Work (aka Advanced Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Seminar)
This one and one-half hour meeting is a combination case conference and didactic seminar and is led by a senior supervisor from the private practice community. Each trainee in turn presents a clinical history in detail and has an audiotape of a session ready to play. The instructor uses a portion of the time for didactic instruction about some aspect(s) posed by the case, or alternatively has didactic material prepared stimulated by the previous week's case conference. Segments of the audiotape are then played with open discussion by all participants.