Enhancing supervision of psychotherapy.

This paper reports the efforts of a psychiatry training faculty to explicitly study the supervisory process and enhance the faculty's supervisory skills. To accomplish this, a psychiatry resident permitted the videotaping of her supervision. These videotapes were then reviewed and presented in an ongoing conference to members of the training faculty. Through these conferences, the faculty was able to learn methods of elucidating issues within the supervisory process. Techniques for assisting residents in the development of their psychotherapeutic skills were elaborated.