title: Organizing and maintaining peer supervision groups.
abstract: Peer supervision groups (PSGs) are attractive to psychotherapists for many reasons, including ongoing consultation and support, networking, and combating professional isolation. These leaderless groups offer opportunities for interpersonal learning from peers, and the parallel process within PSGs can be an important consultative tool. Unfortunately, many PSGs fail. PSGs benefit from careful attention to contract, task, gatekeeping, and group process, including resistances and dynamics of competition, and shame.
authors.affiliation: Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. EleanorF@Counselman.com
authors.forename: Eleanor F
authors.initials: EF
authors.lastname: Counselman
authors.forename: Robert L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Weber
mesh_terms: D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D009934:Organization and Administration; D010379:Peer Group; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods*; D000078329:Workforce