Supervision of termination in psychotherapy.
OBJECTIVE
To propose a model for teaching and supervising the termination process in psychoanalytic psychotherapy.


METHODS
Group supervision of the 12-week termination phase of psychotherapy with a patient who had been in psychotherapy with a senior resident for 2 years.


RESULTS
This supervisory method provided a positive termination experience for the patient and valuable group-teaching experience for residents at various levels in their training.


CONCLUSIONS
A group supervisory teaching process is a particularly effective way of teaching the termination process and is more efficient in terms of time, energy, and dissemination of knowledge than a traditional one-on-one supervision model.
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Department of Psychiatry, University of Ottawa, Ontario.
Cameron
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D006126:Group Processes; D006801:Humans; D007207:Individuation; D007396:Internship and Residency; D010348:Patient Care Team; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy / Q000193:education*