The role of emotion in psychotherapy supervision: A contextual behavioral analysis

Mile much has been written regarding the importance of emotional expression in psychotherapy, much less attention has been paid to the role of emotion in clinical supervision. Recently, several radical behavioral psychotherap ies have been developed that may shed light on theoretical issues important to the expression of emotion in supervision. This paper describes the theo retical viewpoints of two such contextual therapies, Functional Analytic Ps ychotherapy (FAP) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and applies the frameworks of these therapies to the process of clinical supervision.