What is the major difference between supervision and therapy?

a. Therapy is more intensive; supervision is less structured in its focus.
b. Supervision extends to all aspects of life, whereas therapy is limited to problem areas.
c. Supervision teaches psychotherapeutic skills, whereas therapy changes personal coping patterns.
d. Therapy uses transference, whereas supervision focuses on only personal limitations.


C
Despite its intensity, supervision is not therapy; its purposes are different. Supervision aims to teach psychotherapeutic skills, whereas therapy seeks to alter a person's characteristic patterns of coping.

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