Psychotherapy Supervision in Scientific Literature: What Can a Bibliometric Lens Reveal?

Therapeutic efficacy, competency development, and professional development all depend on psychotherapy supervision in great measure. Using data from the Web of Science Core Collection, this work investigates the co-occurrence of keywords in the scientific literature on psychotherapy supervision using bibliometric analysis. Analyzed were 386 papers in total, finding 937 distinct keywords of which 139 satisfied the minimal cooccurrence criterion of three. We produced network and overlay visualizations to map theme structures and changing research trends using VOSviewer. Key groupings discovered by the study included competency, therapeutic partnerships, nondisclosure, and multicultural issues in supervision underlining competence and supervision paradigms. Results show a growing emphasis on evidence-based supervision, professional development, and the part that disclosure dynamics and culture play in supervising relationships. The results offer a methodical summary of study paths and draw attention to important topics for further psychotherapy supervision investigation.