Abstract
This paper outlines The Sanctuary Model from the perspective of two former music therapy interns who completed their internship at a Sanctuary Certified residential psychiatric treatment facility for children and adolescents in the midwest. Both writers reflect on their experiences with supervision within this model as supervisees and board-certified music therapists. Strengths of this model such as creating a common language with which to process clinical phenomena, formation of better, more equitable interpersonal relationships between the supervisee and supervisor, and the emphasis on parallel processes are all unique aspects of this model. Discussions of Sanctuary Model supervision’s value in music therapy clinical supervision are included.Keywords: Supervision, Sanctuary Model, Trauma-Informed Supervision, Internship
Highlights
History and Development of The Sanctuary Model®The Sanctuary Institute describes The Sanctuary Model® as “a blueprint for clinical and organizational change which, at its core, promotes safety and recovery from adversity through the active creation of a trauma-informed community” (n.d.)
We summarize the ways in which the Sanctuary Model® of supervision influenced us in five key points, which we discuss in further detail: 1. The Sanctuary Model® provided a framework for understanding clinical music therapy work through a trauma-informed lens
As we transitioned from internship to professional music therapy practice, we found that elements of Sanctuary Model® supervision served us in our future workplaces
Summary
The Sanctuary Institute describes The Sanctuary Model® as “a blueprint for clinical and organizational change which, at its core, promotes safety and recovery from adversity through the active creation of a trauma-informed community” (n.d.). This model began to take shape in the 1980s in an adult inpatient psychiatric setting, where the treatment team recognized that many of their patients experienced some form of trauma (Bloom, 2017). Researchers hypothesized that retraumatization in treatment settings occurred when care staff and organizational leaders met service users with an authoritarian role instead of validation and respect in the wake of their service users’ trauma histories (Bloom, 2017)
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