The purpose of this article is twofold: a) to step outside of an either/or mentality about parallel process and adopt a stance of both/and (Hardy, 1995), given that parallel process may be both an unconscious replication of intrapsychic dynamics and an interpersonal one and b) to examine how parallel process in multicultural supervision may be both a resource and a liability. 348) that might reflect but not preclude an unconscious element. Is the supervisee unconsciously enacting the client’s process in supervision? Was there sufficient evidence to claim that client-therapist dynamics get played out in supervision and vice versa? In their response, Tracey, Bludworth, and Glidden-Tracey (2012b) asserted that they “found strong support for the presence and value of an interpersonal conception of parallel process in supervision” (p. Positive client outcome was associated with a pattern in which the trainee’s behavior resembled the supervisor’s mid-treatment.įor Watkins, the crux of the issue centers on whether unconscious processes are at play. The results supported the contention that “The trainee brings the ‘less adaptive’ behavior of the client into supervision, and the supervisor and the trainee enact a minor version of the same interaction…then the supervisor alters her/his behavior away from these client-defined patterns, theoretically with the intention to promote alternatives for the therapist to employ in the session” (p. Toward the end of therapy, client-trainee similarity ratings increased again. Client and trainee dyads were more similar on dominance and affiliation in the beginning of therapy than trainee and supervisor dyads, then became increasingly dissimilar mid-treatment, during which time the most successful trainee-supervisor dyads became more similar. (2012a) analyzed patterns of dominance and affiliation between pairs of clients and trainees and trainees and supervisors, finding that “ altered their behavior from their own general patterns in line with what would be predicted by the theory of parallel process” (p. Is what “has become the best-known phenomenon in supervision: perhaps even the signature phenomenon,” (Bernard & Goodyear, 2014, p. How is this relevant to parallel process and multicultural supervision? I invite you to consider the back-to-back articles published in Psychotherapy Volume 49(3), in which Tracey, Bludworth, and Glidden-Tracey (2012a) provide evidence for parallel process in supervision and Watkins (2012) questions the veracity of the claim by saying, “What might be construed as parallel process, might be real process that parallels” (p. She always ended her yarn with the animated phrase, “Coincidence? I think not!” She would wax on about mysterious sightings and disappearances with oratory inflections akin to a female Rod Serling. During our internship year, she would regale the staff of the counseling center with tales of suspicious occurrences surrounding Area 51, the “secret” government location where UFOs are purportedly stored and studied.
One of my best friends is a skilled storyteller.
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