title: Supervision, a nonelusive component of deliberate practice toward expertise.
abstract: Comments on the article by T. J. G. Tracey et al. (see record 2013-45602-001) on expertise in psychotherapy. Tracey et al. provided a thoughtful discussion regarding the difficulty of achieving expertise in psychotherapy and offered suggestions about approaches toward psychotherapeutic work that may increase expertise, including deliberate practice. While very helpful, these suggestions appear to neglect acknowledgement of one of the most widely used modes of improving practice and facilitating specific feedback regarding psychotherapeutic work: supervision. It could be argued that deliberate practice, and therefore expertise, is most effectively and efficiently advanced through supervision of psychotherapeutic work.
authors.forename: Eleanor H
authors.initials: EH
authors.lastname: McMahan
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D003657:Decision Making; D006801:Humans; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000592:standards*