Abstract
This chapter describes a training program, alliance-focused training (AFT), specifically aimed at teaching and supervising trainees in identifying various markers of alliance ruptures (clustered within withdrawal and confrontation subtypes) and in using different types of interventions to resolve such ruptures. It highlights the skills required by the trainees to develop emotional regulation (e.g., self-exploration) and by the supervisor to foster them (e.g., facilitate practice under pressure, responsiveness). The chapter also presents the tasks involved in the training program (e.g., mindfulness exercises, analyses of videotaped sessions, deliberate practice) and the type of bond (characterized by both anxiety and security) that typically develops between trainees and supervisor during training. After reviewing quantitative and qualitative studies that have been conducted on the process and impact of their training program, the authors present both data and a transcribed session illustrating meaningful events during group supervision. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: chapter)