It Is Still All About the Relationship:

Improving Self Reflection and the Use of Process Recordings in Supervision

Mike Langlois, LICSW1158 Massachusetts Ave.Cambridge, MA 02138(617) 776-3409http://www.mikelanglois.com

Who I AmWho Are You?A Tale of Parallel Process

Introduction

Supervisors are often ambivalent about assigning and reading process recordings, because we don't like having extra work.

We remember our Field Experience and over-identify with students.

We are frightened of our students (their getting angry at us, reporting us to the school, being a time-suck.)

What Gets In the Way

Supervisor need to model the expectations for profession/placement

Process recordings are ways we model clear expectations of our students, and form partnerships with them.

It is ok to tell students that we don't always enjoy reading them!

It is ok to tell students we expect them to write them. 

Great Expectations

Progress Note Clinical Formulation Process Recording Make explicit the differences “Your Self is your scalpel.”

Helping Students Understand What the PR is and isn’t

Post-vention to meetings with stakeholders Clarify student reactions Track group process Identify allies and power brokers in the

system Strategize

Helping Macro Students

Process recordings are narcissistic displays, our students want to be admired, recognized, understood, and inspired.

To not insist on process recordings is to say you don't insist on seeing their work, recognize it, understand it.

Supervisory struggles around commenting often reflect their own unmet supervisory needs and insecurities

A Self Psychological Perspective on Process

Recordings

Mirroring (Reflect the Affect you see explicitly or implicitly in the PR)

Idealizing (offer interpretations, your perspective, pointed questions.)

Twinship (share a vignette, or jot a note to remind the two of you to discuss a similar experience you have had.)

A Self Psychological Perspective on Process

Recordings

Psyche & The Supervisory Triad

Supervisor

Intern

Patient

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Process recordings allow us to see and re-enact the parallel process:

Enactment: The Patient’s Words & Behavior Analysis: The Observation by the Student Interpretation: Reflections, Interventions by

the Student to the Patient.

The Parallel Process

Process recordings allow us to see and re-enact the parallel process:

Enactment: The Writing by Student Analysis: The Reading by Supervisor Interpretation: Comments & Discussion

The Parallel Process

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Style and Technology

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