In psychology, supervision refers to the professional guidance for the professionalization process of psychological counselors and psychotherapists who have been engaged in psychological counseling for a long time. Psychological supervision is a working mode to help people engaged in psychological related occupations improve their working ability and psychological quality. The process of maintaining and promoting people's mental health.
The object of supervision is all people, including people of all ages, situations and psychological qualities and levels. According to the above definition, the scope of clinical psychological supervision includes correcting people with mental illness and psychological disorder, regulating people with psychological problems and psychological abnormalities, and encouraging, cultivating and promoting normal people without psychological problems.
The relationship between supervision and supervision
Supervision is not simply to give some suggestions and guidance to the supervised person, but a complex emotional interaction process between the supervisor and the supervised person. This is a learning alliance between supervisors, just like the therapeutic alliance in psychotherapy. This learning alliance will undergo a test similar to the doctor-patient relationship in psychotherapy.
The relationship between the supervised and the supervised can often indicate the relationship between the therapist and the patient, and vice versa. Just as there are empathy, anti-empathy and resistance in the treatment relationship, there are similar problems in the supervision relationship.
The supervised person is the supervisor's colleague, not his patient. Therefore, supervision is actually carried out under certain restrictions, that is to say, it cannot be as in-depth as analyzing patients, but it cannot satisfy the communication desire of the supervised people as ordinary colleagues.
The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Supervision.