PSYCHODRAMA IN CLINICAL SUPERVISION Independent Public Healthcare Unit Addiction Prevention and Treatment Centre in Zabrze

I have a long-term professional experience in conducting individual and group supervision for two professional groups: addiction therapists and psychotherapists. In this thesis I concentrate on the possibilities of applying the method of psychodrama in supervision. In my professional practice I often wonder in what way I should conduct the supervision so that supervised therapist's dependent attitudes are not being strengthened, how I should provide them with information in order not to judge in an excessive manner. Psychodrama has appeared to be such a method. According to the assumptions of psychodrama, supervision stimulates a psychotherapist's professional development, his/her creativity, authenticity, being beneficial for his/her patients at the same time; it should carry a fresh viewpoint on the practice and a new viewpoint on the therapeutic relationship. Supervision with the use of psychodrama does not lean only on its application in pure form. In the supervisory process also elements of psychoanalysis become integrated theories of family systems, cognitive-behavioral theories and humanistic approach. On the part of a supervisor it involves knowledge, flexibility and creativity as well as engagement in the process itself. Similarly to psychodrama, in supervision, the main value is a safe and confidential atmosphere. A supervisor needs to ensure that a person who takes the material from their work with a patient can fearlessly reveal their work, making constructive changes and hold a new, different view of a therapeutic relationship.