S U P E RV I S I O N –

M U LT I M O D A L
THERAPY

F. M. Christeeba
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SYNOPSIS
• Introduction
• Multimodal therapy
• Supervision process – MMT
• Other therapeutic approaches

• Different settings
• Conclusion
 INTRODUCTION
• Supervision is a service, that counselor or intern would go for
supervision to get an observation feedback about his or her
performance from an experienced counselor.
• It is an ethical professional development and also personal
development.
• Self-learning and awareness take place.
• Supervisor role- teacher, consultant, role model, counselor.
 M U LT I M O D A L T H E R A P Y

• During 1980’s, Arnold Lazarus developed the

multimodal therapy, which is a comprehensive and
biopsychosocial approach. These days MMT is also
focusing on spiritual aspect.
• It is a part of behavior therapy
• It embraces technical eclecticism.
• MMT is established on the assumption that the most of the problems
are multifaceted, multidetermined and multilayered. So that he created
an assessment, which would see the client from seven
dimensions(BASIC-ID).
• They are behavior, affect, sensation, imagery, cognition, Interpersonal
and biological processes.
• Multimodal Therapists also take life history inventory ( General data,
personal and social history, description of presenting problems,
expectations regarding therapy, modality analysis of current
problems, structural profile, childhood memories & experiences).
• Expanded-Structural profile
H U M A N P E R S O N A L I T Y- R E A S O N S O F
ENDURING

Association and relations among

Non-conscious process
events

Modeling and Imitation Meta-communication

Private events Defensive reaction

Thresholds
SUPERVISION:

• Multimodal therapist can easily work with any supervisee with

different approaches.
• Therapists beliefs, values, perception and personality also can affect
supervision. Hence they have to be aware of their responses,
interpretations, analysis and evaluation of supervisee’s session.
• Monitoring own mental process.
 Rapport building

Multimodal life history inventory

SUPERVISIO BASIC-ID
N PROCESS
Intervention

Second order BASIC-ID

 SUPERVISION-AREAS NEED
TO FOCUS

• Checking the conceptualization of the interviewed client.

And asking for justification, insights & interpretations.
• Asking the explanation for treatment plan. If needed,
encouraging supervisee to come up with various
interventions to deal client’s issue (brainstorming).
• Evaluate supervisee’s approach – SOLER, therapeutic
environment, body language, microskills, advance
empathy, therapeutic intervention, ethical values.
• Supervisee’s strengths and unique style of intervention.
• The areas supervisee need to work on.
• Justifications for the various psychological concepts that
supervisee brought into the session.
• Whether the supervisee was biased?, Was she imposing her
values onto client?, Any difficulties she felt during the session?
Did she wrongly used any intervention or misunderstood client’s
issue?, Does she empathized with client?, what are the other
ways she could have been interviewed?, did anything supervisee
left out, not focused?, Supervisee’s countertransference, client’s
blind spots.
• Supervisee’s non-conscious process
 OTHER APPROACHES

Old schools of thought Post modern approach

• Psychoanalytical therapy, • Behavior therapy

psychodynamic therapy • CBT
• Adlerian therapy • REBT
• Gestalt therapy • SFBT
• Client centered therapy

Phenomenal field, libido, Trivial model, objective

thanatos, inferiority complex
 SUPERVISION – DIFFERENT
SETTINGS

• MMT can be applied in all settings (school,

college, geriatric, people with psychological
disorders, couple counseling, family
counseling, addiction counseling, group
counseling).
• So that I can easily supervise therapists from
different settings.
J G P O N T E R O T T O , TA Z A N D E R
E D U C AT I O N A N D S U P E RV I S I O N ,
1984

• Effective in supervision
 CONCLUSION

MMTherapists give importance to therapeutic relationship.

According to clients, they would take directive or non directive
approach. Same thing they can be applied in supervision.
They educate supervisee to modify their way of approach, which
need changes.
Since, they are flexible, open, able, accessible, affable they can
supervise well with different therapists.
Supervisees learn ethical practices, their theoretical orientation,
strengths, reality of using techniques and their competence level.
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