Clinical, research, and policy implications for psychotherapy training and supervision in the 21st century.

Abstract

Participants in the Penn State Conferences D espite technological advances for providing mental health services, our practices of training and supervision have changed minimally across the last 50 years. Adding to this irony, there is a dearth of evidence for the effectiveness of training and supervision, even though they are core to the way we, as psychologists, transmit our knowledge and practical expertise to future practitioners.In the pursuit of reevaluating and gathering new evidence about how to train and supervise the next generation, we urged the authors of this book to think outside the box and envision bold new directions. We hope that this final chapter serves as a convenient summary of where we stand in this area and as a stimulus for further developments.