Teaching Clinical Thinking:
the student as supervisor to the supervisor
Presenter: Jon Frederickson, MSW
Date:January 13, 2024
Time:9:30 am - 5:00 pm EST
Location: Zoom Online
Registration ends January 12th
Effective supervision teaches therapists how to think clinically to intervene effectively. Thus, the supervisor asks decision tree questions so the student learns the sequence of steps in clinical thinking. The student's answers supervise the supervisor. They tell the supervisor what the student is integrating and not integrating. This informs the supervisor's next intervention. This presentation will illustrate the teaching/assessment process in supervision by which we teach students how to think clinically and assess their interventions. And it will show how to listen to unconscious supervision by the student of the supervisor.
We will start with a supervision case showing a student how to become aware of her countertransference, how to use it for clinical thinking, and how to use it to understand how the patient experiences the therapy. As a result, a misalliance is resolved.
In the second case, we will show how to help a student begin to think relationally: how does the patient perceive me on an unconscious level? How does this influence how she perceives my interventions? How might my interventions be supporting the problem we are trying to resolve? Further, we will see how to resolve a student's transference to the supervisor and how that relates to the parallel process.
This presentation will be useful to any therapist wanting to learn to think clinically and useful to any teacher or supervisor wanting to become more effective at teaching clinical thinking.
Schedule
9:30-10:15 Introductory theory of metacognition in supervision
10:15-10:30 coffee
10:30-12:00 Supervision case analysis
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00-2:30 Supervision case analysis
2:30-2:45 coffee
2:45-5:00 Supervision case analysis
6 CEUs will be offered.
Bio
Jon Frederickson, MSW, is on the faculty of the Intensive Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP) Training Program at the New Washington School of Psychiatry. Jon has provided ISTDP training in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Poland, Italy, Switzerland, India, Iran, Australia, Canada, the U.S., and the Netherlands. He is the author of over fifty published papers or book chapters and five books, Co-Creating Change: Effective Dynamic Therapy Techniques, Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: Learning to Listen from Multiple Perspectives, The Lies We Tell Ourselves, Co-Creating Safety: healing the fragile patient, and Healing Through Relating: a skill-building book for therapists.. His book, Co-Creating Change, won the first prize in psychiatry in 2014 at the British Medical Association Book Awards, and it has been published in Farsi, Polish, Hebrew, and Slovak, and is being translated into Spanish and Croatian. His book The Lies We Tell Ourselves has been translated into fourteen languages. And his book, Co-Creating Safety is being translated into German, Polish, Hebrew, and Slovak. He has DVDs of actual sessions with patients who previously failed in therapy at his websites www.istdpinstitute.com and www.deliberatepracticeinpsychotherapy.com. There you will also find skill-building exercises designed for therapists. He writes posts on ISTDP at www.facebook.com/DynamicPsychotherapy . His book, Clinical Thinking in Psychotherapy: how to do it and how to teach it, is forthcoming.
