Open supervision: modelling psychotherapy supervision as a teaching method for first year psychiatric residents.

The Open Supervision teaching method involves a therapist presenting process notes and correlated supervisory sessions of a terminated psychotherapy case to a group of trainees, accompanied by the therapist's former supervisor of that case. Open Supervision reduces the trainee's anticipatory anxiety about supervision by modelling the supervisory relationship, and by providing a realistic picture of the capacities and limitations of both supervisee and supervisor.