OVERSEEING THE PARALLEL PROCESS IN SOCIAL WORK

Abstract

The parallel process has been and continues to be a controversial topic of interest in psychotherapy, and has been extended to social work supervision. The aim of the paper is to provide some guidelines for the supervisor and the supervisee to intervene in the situation following the awareness of the parallel process in supervision and to prevent the emergence of the parallel process in supervision in psychotherapy and social work supervision, with the adoption of a relational stance in psychotherapy and supervision. In this regard we adapted Ladany et all's Model (2005) and designed an Insight Sheet useful in psychotherapy, social work and supervision for the development of relational breathing competence.  The theme of parallel process is a theme that we consider to be a necessary theme in psychotherapy and supervision training curricula.