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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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