ABSTRACT Previous research showed that supervision during psychotherapy training sometimes includes negative alliance and harmful events. The aim of this study was to investigate how such events were related to failing psychotherapy training. Interviews were made with informants from two separate samples: psychotherapy students who had failed training (n = 6) and supervisors with experience from failing students (n = 6). The interviews were analyzed separately for the two samples with inductive thematic analysis and then compared. The core category for students (‘Paradoxical response’) indicated that they experienced their supervisors as either demanding too much or nothing at all. The core category for supervisors (‘Balancing contradictory demands’) indicated that they wanted to fail students who did not live up to expectations but were pressured by training institutes to let them pass. Both students and supervisors experienced distress but it seemed that they were not fully aware of each other’s vulnerability. The results suggest that a weak supervisory alliance and harmful events may contribute to student failures, independently of students’ actual suitability for psychotherapy.

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心理治疗培训失败：学生和导师对督导关系的看法

摘要 先前的研究表明，心理治疗培训期间的监督有时包括消极联盟和有害事件。本研究的目的是调查此类事件与心理治疗培训失败的关系。采访了来自两个不同样本的线人：未通过培训的心理治疗学生 (n = 6) 和有失败学生经验的主管 (n = 6)。对两个样本的访谈分别进行归纳主题分析，然后进行比较。学生的核心类别（“矛盾反应”）表明，他们认为他们的导师要求过高或根本没有要求。主管的核心类别（“平衡矛盾的要求”）表明，他们想让那些没有达到预期但在培训机构的压力下让他们通过的学生不及格。学生和导师都经历了痛苦，但他们似乎并没有完全意识到彼此的脆弱性。结果表明，与学生实际是否适合心理治疗无关，薄弱的监督联盟和有害事件可能会导致学生失败。