ABSTRACT

Psychotherapy supervision research, while reflecting empirical advances across the decades, also reflects unfulfilled promise. We subsequently consider why that is so, examining some of the roadblocks that seemingly have prevented supervision research from moving most fruitfully forward. It is our contention that rich seeds of supervision research advancement have long been available, cast in the form of constructive recommendations for action that, unfortunately, have generally gone unheeded and not been acted upon. In hopes of further stimulating supervision research and a re-study of those useful recommendations, we review long-lingering supervision roadblocks, remedies, and recommendations for remedy implementation. Several fundamental issues — focusing on study design, sampling, and measurement concerns — are taken up for consideration. Supervision research, because of its triadic nature, can be highly challenging, difficult to conduct, even ‘messy’. But if supervision is to ever empirically advance beyond its current state, then re-visiting and acting upon some of those earlier-identified, admittedly-demanding recommendations seems sine qua non.

摘要

心理治疗监督研究虽然反映了数十年来的经验进展，但也反映出未兑现的希望。随后，我们考虑了为什么会这样，研究了一些似乎阻碍了监督研究取得最大成果的障碍。我们的观点是，长期以来一直有大量的监督研究进展的种子，它们以建设性的行动建议的形式出现，不幸的是，这些建议通常没有引起人们的注意，也没有采取任何行动。为了进一步刺激监管研究并重新研究这些有用的建议，我们审查了长期存在的监管障碍，补救措施和实施补救措施的建议。考虑了几个基本问​​题，重点放在研究设计，抽样和测量方面。监督研究由于其三合一性，因此可能具有很高的挑战性，难以进行甚至“凌乱”。但是，如果监督要从经验上超越当前状态，那么重新访问并采取一些早先确定的，公认的需求建议似乎是必要的。