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Draft for catalogue, needs ST approval. In this new edition Michael Carroll draws on over 30 years of practising, teaching, researching and writing about supervision to provide an essential introduction to the field. Presenting a framework of supervision based on learning and reflective practice, the book offers new insights into how critical reflection can become the heart-blood of supervision. Previously titled Counselling Supervision, this second edition covers crucial and contemporary areas of supervision such as building and maintaining the supervisory relationship, ethical maturity and insights into supervision from neuroscience. It widens the concept of supervision to include professions such as coaching, organisational development consulting, counselling and psychology, highlighting the organisational demands on supervision from these various contexts. Using features such as case studies, exercises and points for reflection, this is an ideal introduction to managing the supervisory relationship for both trainee and supervisor. Michael Carroll, Ph.D. is a chartered counselling psychologist who has specialised in training supervisors.
Introduction
And those who were dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. (Attributed to Nietzsche)
In 1979, fresh from my counselling psychology studies in Chicago, I was asked by a family therapist to supervise her work. I was chuffed to think that after such a brief apprenticeship as a counselling psychologist I was recognised as someone who could oversee and support the therapeutic work of others. Unwittingly and unthinkingly I found myself being asked to supervise for the first time. I suspect I was more didactic and directive then than I am now – probably because deep down I was hesitant and unsure of what I was supposed to do, but arrogant and naïve enough to think that whatever ...
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