MPS Art Therapy presents a virtual presentation by Sandra Buechler, PhD, on the characteristics of helpful clinical supervision.

In this virtual lecture, Sandra Buechler, PhD, will describe “growth-enhancing supervision” and liken it to the process of making a sculpture. As in sculpture, where the artist may be described as finding the sculpture in the stone, so in supervision, the two participants find the clinician in the supervisee. Both participants search for the qualities, talents, proclivities, personal strengths, life experiences, theoretical knowledge, and any other aspects of the supervisee that, taken together, can inform their style. Hopefully, a “signature style,” a personally resonant way of working clinically, will be forged.

Learning Objectives:

1. Describe growth-enhancing supervision.

2. Explain how shame can inhibit the supervisory process and how that might be prevented.

3. Discuss some of the ways supervision can help the supervisee develop a non-narcissistic investment in their work.

Speaker Bio:

Sandra Buechler, PhD is a training and supervising analyst at the William Alanson White Institute. She is the author of Clinical Values: Emotions that Guide Psychoanalytic Treatment (Analytic Press, 2004); Making a Difference in Patients’ Lives (Routledge, 2008), which won the Gradiva award; Still Practicing: The Heartaches and Joys of a Clinical Career (Routledge, 2012); Understanding and Treating Patients in Clinical Psychoanalysis: Lessons from Literature (Routledge, 2015), Psychoanalytic Reflections: Training and Practice (IPBooks, 2017) Psychoanalytic Approaches to Problems in Living (Routledge, 2019), Poetic Dialogues (IPBooks, 2021) and Erich Fromm: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge, 2024).

The MPS Art Therapy Department at the School of Visual Arts is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed creative arts therapists. #CAT-0054.

1.5 CE hours available for LCATs.

SVA wants to ensure persons with disabilities have access to this event. If you are a person with a disability who requires accommodations to access or participate in this event, please reach out to the department at arttherapy@sva.edu or to SVA Disability Resources disabilityresources@sva.edu at least seven business days prior to the event.

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Community Lecture Series: Characteristics of Helpful Clinical Supervision