Although clinical supervision is considered to be a major component of the development and maintenance of psychotherapeutic competencies, and despite an increase in supervision research, the empirical evidence on the topic remains sparse. Because most previous reviews lack methodological rigor, we aimed to review the status and quality of the empirical literature on clinical supervision, and to provide suggestions for future research. MEDLINE, PsycInfo and the Web of Science Core Collection were searched and the review was conducted according to current guidelines. From the review results, we derived suggestions for future research on clinical supervision. The systematic literature search identified 19 publications from 15 empirical studies. Taking into account the review results, the following suggestions for further research emerged: Supervision research would benefit from proper descriptions of how studies are conducted according to current guidelines, more methodologically rigorous empirical studies, the investigation of active supervision interventions, from taking diverse outcome domains into account, and from investigating supervision from a meta-theoretical perspective. In all, the systematic review supported the notion that supervision research often lags behind psychotherapy research in general. Still, the results offer detailed starting points for further supervision research. PROSPERO; CRD42017072606 , registered on June 20, 2017.

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临床督导的实证研究：系统回顾和未来研究建议

尽管临床监督被认为是心理治疗能力发展和维持的主要组成部分，并且尽管监督研究有所增加，但有关该主题的经验证据仍然很少。由于大多数以往的综述缺乏方法论严谨性，我们旨在回顾临床监督实证文献的现状和质量，并为未来的研究提供建议。检索了 MEDLINE、PsycInfo 和 Web of Science 核心合集，并根据现行指南进行了审查。根据审查结果，我们对临床监督的未来研究提出了建议。系统文献检索从 15 项实证研究中确定了 19 篇出版物。考虑到审查结果，提出了以下进一步研究的建议：监督研究将受益于对如何根据当前指南进行研究的正确描述、方法论上更严格的实证研究、对积极监督干预措施的调查、采取不同的结果领域并从元理论的角度考察监管。总而言之，系统评价支持了监督研究通常落后于心理治疗研究的观点。尽管如此，研究结果为进一步的监督研究提供了详细的起点。普洛斯彼罗；CRD42017072606，注册于2017年6月20日。