Abstract
This chapter investigates the direct and indirect effects of formal supervision during graduate training. Trainees participated in a semi-structured interview aimed at understanding how their supervisor helped them, directly, to deal with an obstacle they faced during treatment and also how such supervision indirectly led to positive changes for their client. Qualitative analyses of the responses provided in the interviews reveal a variety of obstacles, strategies suggested and implemented to handle them, and benefits for both trainees and clients. Similar to the if/then scenarios highlighted in Constantino et al.'s contextual model, the chapter identifies markers of interventions and responses to such markers that are consistent with a critical events stage model of supervision. Furthermore, the results suggest that a key ingredient for successful supervision is the supervisor's responsiveness to the supervisees' needs and their task of helping clients.