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A Guide to Functional Analytic PsychotherapySupervision and Therapist Self-Development

A Guide to Functional Analytic Psychotherapy: Supervision and Therapist Self-Development Chapter 8 Mavis Tsai, Glenn M. Callaghan, Robert J. Kohlenberg, William C. Follette, and Sabrina M. Darrow The type of FAP supervision l have received has been about moving radically in the direction of interpersonal intimacy and profound trust. I have come to trust my FAP supervisors not because they operate predictably in the domain of emotional comfort and interpersonal distance, but because they have shown me consistently that they want to interact with me as a whole person. They want to take the risk of emotional discom- fort – to venture into unknown territory because they value me unconditionally. Working together as whole people, and bring- ing our personal histories into our supervisory relationship, has created a profound trust that I find imperative to this work. And learning, by experience, that we are willing to stay committed to the relationship, to shape and be shaped by each other, to endure the potential unpleasantness of natural contingencies in the service of connecting with the relationship and the other person in the present, rather than artificially curtailing it given the punishment we’ve experienced in the past. Because I can toler- ate so much more discomfort, I can venture to create http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Guide to Functional Analytic PsychotherapySupervision and Therapist Self-Development

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© Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2009
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978-0-387-09786-2
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10.1007/978-0-387-09787-9_8
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Chapter 8 Mavis Tsai, Glenn M. Callaghan, Robert J. Kohlenberg, William C. Follette, and Sabrina M. Darrow The type of FAP supervision l have received has been about moving radically in the direction of interpersonal intimacy and profound trust. I have come to trust my FAP supervisors not because they operate predictably in the domain of emotional comfort and interpersonal distance, but because they have shown me consistently that they want to interact with me as a whole person. They want to take the risk of emotional discom- fort – to venture into unknown territory because they value me unconditionally. Working together as whole people, and bring- ing our personal histories into our supervisory relationship, has created a profound trust that I find imperative to this work. And learning, by experience, that we are willing to stay committed to the relationship, to shape and be shaped by each other, to endure the potential unpleasantness of natural contingencies in the service of connecting with the relationship and the other person in the present, rather than artificially curtailing it given the punishment we’ve experienced in the past. Because I can toler- ate so much more discomfort, I can venture to create

Published: Oct 20, 2008

Keywords: Parallel Process; Contextual Modeling; Case Conceptualization; Response Class; Natural Reinforcement

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