Supervision essentials for existential-humanistic therapy /
ISBN: 9781433822810
Platform/Publisher: PsycBOOKS / American Psychological Association,
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapter; Download: Chapter
Subjects: Existential psychotherapy; Counseling; Psychoanalytic Therapy; Existentialism; Humanism; Clinical Competence; Personnel Management;

This concise guide applies the principles of Existential-Humanistic therapy to the practice of clinical supervision. With the skillful use of case examples--including transcripts and analyses of real sessions with a real clinical trainee--the authors utilize the key ingredients of the E-H therapeutic approach, including empathy, acceptance, and genuineness, to model how trainees can create safe, collaborative, and supportive relationships with clients.

E-H supervisors help trainees learn to enter their clients' self-constructed worlds, using their own personal contexts to develop responsiveness to clients, while also cultivating the "presence" that enables genuine encounters and real therapeutic change.


Orah T. Krug, PhD, MFT, has been clinical director of training and education at the Existential-Humanistic institute of San Francisco since its inception in 1997, where she develops the curriculum and the programmatic structures for the varied training programs. Dr. Krug leads the faculty and supervises the teachers-in-training at the experiential retreats. She also maintains a private practice in Oakland and Sausalito, is an adjunct faculty member of Saybrook University, and an editor for the Journal of Humanistic Psychology. She and Kirk J. Schneider also coauthored Existential-Humanistic Therapy (2010).
Kirk J. Schneider, PhD, a leader in contemporary existential-humanistic psychology, is a graduate of Saybrook University, where he was mentored by James Bugental and Rollo May. Dr. Schneider is the president of the Society for Humanistic Psychology of the American Psychological Association (2015-2016), recent past editor of the Journal of Humanistic Psychology (2005-2012), cofounder and vice president of the Existential-Humanistic Institute, and adjunct faculty at Saybrook University and Teachers College, Columbia University. His previous books include The Paradoxical Self, Rediscovery of Awe, Awakening to Awe, Existential-Integrative Psychotherapy Existential-Humanistic Therapy (with Orah T. Krug), and The Polarized Mind.
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