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Open Supervision: Modelling psychotherapy supervision as a teaching method for first year psychiatric residents

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The Open Supervision teaching method involves a therapist presenting process notes and correlated supervisory sessions of a terminated psychotherapy case to a group of trainees, accompanied by the therapist's former supervisor of that case. Open Supervision reduces the trainee's anticipatory anxiety about supervision by modelling the supervisory relationship, and by providing a realistic picture of the capacities and limitations of both supervisee and supervisor.

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  1. Harvard Medical School, USA

    Russell G. Vasile M.D. (Instructor in Psychiatry) &  Leon N. Shapiro M.D. (Clinical Associate Professor)

  2. Massachusetts Mental Health Center, 74 Fenwood Road, 02115, Boston, MA

    Russell G. Vasile M.D. (Instructor in Psychiatry) &  Leon N. Shapiro M.D. (Clinical Associate Professor)

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The authors wish to thank Dr. Thomas Gutheil, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, and Dr. Jules Bemporad, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, for their assistance in reviewing the manuscript, and Ms. Alice Persons for her assistance in preparing the manuscript.

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Vasile, R.G., Shapiro, L.N. Open Supervision: Modelling psychotherapy supervision as a teaching method for first year psychiatric residents. Psych Quart 54, 254–259 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01064821

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