The homework aims to generalize the patient's knowledge and encourage practicing skills learned during therapy sessions. Encouraging and facilitating homework is an important part of supervisees in their supervision, and problems with using homework in therapy are a common supervision agenda. Supervisees are encouraged to conceptualize the patient's lack of homework and promote awareness of their own beliefs and responses to non-cooperation. The supervision focuses on homework twice - first as a part of the supervised therapy and second as a part of the supervision itself. Homework assigned in supervision usually deals with mapping problems, monitoring certain behaviors (mostly communication with the patient), or implementing new behaviors in therapy.

Department of Psychiatry University Hospital Olomouc Faculty of Medicine Palacky University in Olomouc Olomouc The Czech Republic

Department of Psychology Sciences Faculty of Social Science and Health Care Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra Nitra The Slovak Republic

Department of Psychotherapy Institute for Postgraduate Training in Health Care Prague The Czech Republic

Jessenia Inc Rehabilitation Hospital Beroun Akeso Holding Beroun The Czech Republic

Laboratory of Behavioral Medicine Neuroscience Institute Lithuanian University of Health Sciences Kaunas Lithuania

Riga`s Stradins University Riga Latvia

University of Latvia Latvian Association of CBT Riga Latvia

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