Synopses & Reviews
It is a fairly well established clich ac]e that while supervision is recognised as a crucial component of good practice in psychotherapy and counselling, there is correspondingly little written about it... this book is] a good step in redressing the balance... It is a practical, didactic and generic view of how to do supervision... giving a fairly comprehensive account of 30 of the formal skills that all supervisors probably use whether consciously or not... The book discusses each of the skills, giving examples as well as practical suggestions as to how to approach difficult issues... directed principally at counsellors, it is a book to dip into when faced with a panic about a specific issue' - Therapeutic Communities
Synopsis
Supervision is a professional and ethical necessity for all therapists, providing them with support and protecting clients from abuse. Relatively little has been written on the subject, however. This book aims to fill that gap. It contains thirty practical hints to help practitioners and trainee practitioners to develop and enhance the skills they need to be successful in their work. Encouraging, yet sensitive to the difficult issues that frequently arise in supervision, Developing Counselor Supervision covers such areas as creating a supervisory alliance, fostering the supervisory relationship, the use of tape recording, highlighting supervisees' strengths and weaknesses, and protecting the client and therapist.