title: Some thoughts about parallel process and psychotherapy supervision: when is a parallel just a parallel?
abstract: In a way not done before, Tracey, Bludworth, and Glidden-Tracey ("Are there parallel processes in psychotherapy supervision: An empirical examination," Psychotherapy, 2011, advance online publication, doi.10.1037/a0026246) have shown us that parallel process in psychotherapy supervision can indeed be rigorously and meaningfully researched, and their groundbreaking investigation provides a nice prototype for future supervision studies to emulate. In what follows, I offer a brief complementary comment to Tracey et al., addressing one matter that seems to be a potentially important conceptual and empirical parallel process consideration: When is a parallel just a parallel?
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of North Texas, Denton, TX 76203-5017, USA. watkinsc@unt.edu
authors.forename: C Edward
authors.initials: CE
authors.lastname: Watkins
mesh_terms: D036262:Empirical Research; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000193:education* / Q000379:methods*