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<strong>Clinical</strong> <strong>Supervision</strong> <strong>Handbook</strong><br />

A CASE PRESENTATION MODEL<br />

FOR CLINICAL SUPERVISION<br />

Presenting a case to a supervisor and / or colleagues helps clinicians organize information<br />

about treatment into coherent themes and concepts. It also gives the clinical<br />

supervisor a chance to evaluate which areas of practice and client management the<br />

clinican has mastered and which could be improved or enhanced (Ask & Roche,<br />

2005) There are many ways that case presentations can be structured. The following<br />

section describes the approach used by one camh program.<br />

Using the Core Conflictual Relationship Theme<br />

The clients of a camh program that provides inpatient and outpatient transitional<br />

care treatment for women with a mood disorder associated with a history of interpersonal<br />

trauma (childhood and/or adulthood physical, emotional and/or sexual<br />

abuse often experience the consequences of trauma including substance abuse, selfharm<br />

behaviour and dysfunctional interpersonal relationship patterns. Because they<br />

experience these problems within their relationships, the Core Conflictual Relationship<br />

Theme (ccrt) and the consideration of feminist themes are used as frameworks to<br />

enhance clinicians’ understanding of the client’s dynamics.<br />

Luborsky (1997) believed that the ccrt was a valuable approach to setting treatment<br />

goals in short-term hospital settings. It provides a way of both clinicians and clients<br />

increasing their understanding of the client’s relationship difficulties and ways of<br />

overcoming them. The ccrt method is based on the principle that redundancy across<br />

relationship narratives is a good basis for assessing the central relationship pattern.<br />

A relationship pattern consists of:<br />

• the person’s wish in relationships<br />

• what they experience as the reaction of others (RO) to them<br />

• how they respond to these reactions (the reaction of self (RS).<br />

People generally approach relationships with a wish for something particular from<br />

the other person (e.g., the wish to be loved, validated or generally cared for). They<br />

experience others responding to them in particular ways (e.g., loving, abusive, silencing)<br />

and they react in kind (e.g., withdraw, push the other person away in anger). Through<br />

describing different relationships, the clinician and client can see patterns emerge.<br />

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