Autora: Bárbara Zas Ros
Publicado en: Zas Ros, B. (2025). The Cultural, Professional, and Regulatory Context of Supervision in Cuba. In: Grazioso, M.d.P., Goodyear, R.K., Gallardo-Cooper, M.I., Fernandez-Alvarez, H., Falender, C.A., Cobar, A.A. (eds) Clinical Supervision in Latin America. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-82373-2_5
This chapter presents a characterization of the current state of development of Supervision in Cuba, as a practice of psychology professionals. There is no professional recognition of the exercise of psychological supervision, in the context of the professional practices of professional relations of psychological help in Cuba. The professional practice of supervision is very isolated, infrequent, and always associated with the psychological service that is provided institutionally and free of charge. Psychological supervision in Cuba is not characterized by having certification processes that guarantee its exercise. Psychological supervision in Cuba at the undergraduate level is only taught in the context of the subject of Psychological Orientation, for students trained at the Faculty of Psychology of the University of Havana. An optional subject is offered in the same faculty. In the postgraduate program there is a proposal for a training course for supervisors, with very low demand for students. As the practice is not systematized, the frequency that monitoring occurs is difficult to specify. In the undergraduate training space described above, previously contracted supervision sessions (four) are offered in the context of the subject. For the optional subject there are ten sessions of work in supervision. Supervision practices, when they occur, are usually done in groups. The development of research in the field of Clinical Supervision in Cuba is highly deficient. The Operational Model of Psychological Supervision, a second-generation model, is the first proposal developed, which has been developed in Cuba, from an investigative process deployed for more than 10 years, with the use of grounded theory as a research method. It is imposed as a necessity for the development of training processes in Psychological Supervision in Cuba, together with the training of accredited supervisors, and the recognition of the professional practice of this type of practice that contributes to the improvement of the quality of free care of the professional relations of psychological help that are provided in the country.