How to manage cognitive behavioral supervision session

Cognitive behavioural therapy stresses a clear structure of therapeutic sessions and supervision. One of the basic reasons for the structure in supervision is that it forms atmosphere of safety because the supervisee recognises the session schedule in advance. The key task of the supervisory session is mostly to discuss the case formulation, the strategies used, and the therapeutic relationship. A supervisor can use a number of strategies to help supervisee in understanding the client, find optimal strategies and form good relationship. The article discussed the typical agenda of supervision session and give several examples from the supervisory praxis.