Cognitive–Behavioral Therapy Supervision

In Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Supervision, Dr. Cory F. Newman demonstrates an approach to supervision that creates a safe, professionally supportive environment for a supervisee to acquire, practice, and master cognitive behavioral therapy methods, and become more confident as a practitioner.

The cognitive behavioral approach encourages the supervisee to ask questions in supervision, to conceptualize difficulties with clients, to create a nurturing and constructive therapeutic relationship with clients, and to use in-session structure and post-session homework to help clients achieve and maintain therapeutic gains.

In this program, Dr. Newman also highlights and applies the principles of cultural competency and professional ethics in the meeting with his supervisee, and host Dr. Arpana G. Inman interviews him and his supervisee about their work together, exploring the constructs of this model as they examine the supervision session in detail.

Dr. Cory F. Newman's supervisory approach is collaborative, educational, and committed to the wellness of the clients and the professional development of the supervisee. He strives not only to train his supervisees in how to utilize the best of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) techniques and homework assignments, but also how to think like a highly effective CBT practitioner, so that they conceptualize cases and match interventions to the individual needs of each client.

He values the chance to help aspiring CBT clinicians to increase their repertoire and improve their confidence in delivering state-of-the-art CBT, and therefore he does his utmost to create a safe environment in which the supervisees will be able to freely ask questions, admit difficulties, and stretch themselves beyond their comfort zones in the interest of improving their work.

Good CBT is always delivered in the context of a healthy therapeutic relationship, and therefore Dr. Newman endeavors to be a positive role model by creating and nurturing a constructive supervisory relationship. He also believes that the supervision process is a natural place in which to highlight and apply the principles of cultural competency and professional ethics, so that the supervisee may learn by example and by practical application.

Cory F. Newman, PhD, ABPP, is director of the Center for Cognitive Therapy, professor of psychology, in psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and adjunct faculty at the Beck Institute for Cognitive Behavior Therapy.

Dr. Newman is a diplomate of the American Board of Professional Psychology, and a founding fellow of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy.

Dr. Newman has served as a protocol therapist and supervisor in a number of large-scale psychotherapy outcome studies, including the Penn-Vanderbilt-Rush Treatment of Depression Projects. Dr. Newman is an international lecturer, having presented scores of cognitive therapy workshops and seminars across North America, as well as fifteen countries in Europe, South America, and Asia.

Dr. Newman is the lead author on dozens of articles and chapters on cognitive therapy for a wide range of disorders, and has authored or coauthored five books, including Bipolar Disorder: A Cognitive Therapy Approach, published by APA.

Dr. Newman has extensive experience as a cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) supervisor. Since 1989, Dr. Newman has supervised more than 300 professionals-in-training, both at the University of Pennsylvania, and through the Beck Institute's international training program. Dr. Newman has supervised psychologists, psychiatrists, graduate students, psychiatry residents, social workers, and nurses, and his supervisees have been from the United States, Australia, Canada, China, Cyprus, Ecuador, England, Germany, Israel, Japan, the Philippines, and Thailand.

Dr. Newman has given major presentations on the topic of CBT supervision, including invited lectures at the World Congresses of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy in Barcelona (2007) and Lima in (2013), symposia at the Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy in Philadelphia (2007) and APA (2012), and workshops in Hong Kong (2010), Switzerland (2010), and Denmark (2014).

Dr. Newman is the author of several articles and chapters that focus on the topic of CBT training and supervision, and his recent book on Core Competencies in Cognitive–Behavioral Therapy provides principles and transcript examples of effective supervision.

Dr. Newman was visiting professor in the department of psychology and neurosciences at the University of Colorado at Boulder in the fall of 2011, where he taught the graduate seminar "Introduction to CBT Supervision and Consultation."

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APA Videos

• Competency-Based Supervision
  Carol A. Falender and Edward P. Shafranske
• Critical Events in Psychotherapy Supervision
  Nicholas Ladany
• Existential–Humanistic Psychotherapy Supervision
  Kirk J. Schneider
• Feminist Therapy Supervision
  Laura S. Brown
• The Integrative Developmental Model of Supervision
  Brian McNeill
• Relational Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Supervision
  Joan E. Sarnat
• Systems Approach to Psychotherapy Supervision
  Elizabeth L. Holloway

APA Books

• Casebook for Clinical Supervision: A Competency-Based Approach
  Carol A. Falender and Edward P. Shafranske
• Supervision Essentials for a Systems Approach to Supervision
  Elizabeth L. Holloway
• Supervision Essentials for Cognitive–Behavioral Therapy
  Cory F. Newman
• Supervision Essentials for Psychodynamic Psychotherapies
  Joan E. Sarnat
• Supervision Essentials for the Feminist Psychotherapy Model of Supervision
  Laura S. Brown
• Supervision Essentials for the Integrative Developmental Model
  Brian W. McNeill and Cal D. Stoltenberg

• Supervision Essentials for Cognitive–Behavioral Therapy
  

  Cory F. Newman and Danielle A. Kaplan offer a comprehensive approach to supervising practitioners of cognitive–behavioral therapy, from case conceptualization to matching interventions to the individual needs of each client, to cultural competency and professional ethics.