title: Terminating supervision.
abstract: The focus of this paper is on the termination of clinical supervision. Although clinical supervision is considered the backbone of most mental health training programs, it gets relatively little theoretical or empirical attention. The termination of supervision has received even less attention. In this paper, we describe an approach to terminating supervision in our treatment team, which integrates intensive assessment with a relational perspective in a clinical science training program (Levendosky & Hopwood, 2016). We describe our established conceptual framework, review empirical evidence, and provide verbatim examples from final supervision meetings on our team to elaborate the importance of conceptualizing individual differences across trainees and parallels between supervision and psychotherapy dynamics. We conclude by emphasizing the need for research on supervision in general and supervision termination in particular. (PsycINFO Database Record
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Michigan State University.
authors.forename: Alytia A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Levendosky
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Michigan State University.
authors.forename: Christopher J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Hopwood
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008611:Mentors; D009769:Object Attachment; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011586:Psychology, Clinical / Q000193:education*; D013811:Psychotherapeutic Processes; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000193:education*; D056345:Theory of Mind