In collaboration with the University of Kassel and Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, the IPU is conducting a research project on psychoanalytic supervision in youth welfare. As part of this project, a total of 26 groups from two different youth welfare institutions will receive one or two years of psychoanalytic supervision and one year of classical supervision (treatment as usual) in alternating cycles.
The supervision is intended to help staff on site improve their skills in dealing with difficult adolescents, particularly in recognizing and managing their own unconscious countertransference reactions. The evaluation will be based on quantitative pre- and post-measurements and a group comparison, as well as a qualitative, heuristic, hypothesis-generating approach. It is expected that specific problems in the cases brought to supervision will be reflected in the supervision process. Furthermore, it is expected that the supervisees' perspectives on the specific conflicts regarding their own and others' involvement in the process will change as a result of the psychoanalytic supervision experience. Selected individual interviews with the participants will be conducted at intervals to assess the after-effects of the process. A short questionnaire was developed as a tool for the detailed description of the experiences of individual supervision sessions by supervisees and supervisors, which records essential aspects of the session experience.
In addition to the quantitative measurements of supervision effects, which are still being evaluated, a series of qualitative studies were conducted during the course of the project. Suitable measurement instruments were translated, developed, and validated, and an indexed database of audio documentation was established.
Original language: German
Lena Haupt (Former coordination; IPU Berlin)
Jurian Krupp (Coordinaton; IPU Berlin)
Cooperation partners:
Prof. Wolfgang Mertens (Consulting for entire project; LMU München)
Prof. Svenja Taubner (Quantitative study Children and adolescents; University of Klagenfurt)
Liebelt (Research design, Quantitative research until March 2012; University of Kassel)
Jörg Bergmann (Quantitative research, statistical analysis, methodological consulting)
Anna Brockhaus (Confidentiality officer, confidential documents, transcription, anonymization)
Additional project staff:
Eike Reinfelder
Sabine Rach
Christiane Schragner
Kathrin Drenseck
Sophie Adler
Jakob Hamburger