Techniques for Increasing Effectiveness of Co-Therapy Functioning in Adolescent Psychotherapy Groups

The junior-junior team

“…Supervisory experience (McGee & Schuman, 1970) suggests that a supportive milieu plays a major role in spawning effective cotherapy relations. Other writers, largely from observation of supervision, have suggested other important contributory factors to the success of the cotherapy relationship: compatibility of therapy styles (Corder et al, 1984;Davis & Lohr, 1971;Solomon et al, 1953) and degrees of liking and disliking between the therapists, which often contain strong transference aspects as well (Anderson et al, 1972;Demarest & Teicher, 1954;Mintz, 1965;Rosenbaum, 1983). Research by Bernard et al (1987) supported the importance of therapy styles.…”