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Among the plethora of supervision books, Group Supervision is the only one dedicated to working in groups. The strength of group supervision is that it can provide a supportive environment in which practitioners freely share and learn from their own and others’ experience. The Second Edition of this popular text features up-to-date research findings on group supervision in organizations, and further coverage of the challenge of diversity, and ethical decision-making in groups. A new chapter considers the advantages of groups for supervisor development and training, and stresses the urgency for greater accountability and practitioner research.
A Typology for Supervision Groups
A Typology for Supervision Groups
Creating a Typology
Not all styles of supervision group require the same degree of group-work skill and confidence on the part of a supervisor. In this chapter, we will look at a framework for identifying four different types of supervision group.1,2 In practice, they are not clearly distinct from each other. Initially, Francesca Inskipp and I identified two of them by becoming familiar with each other's group style and realizing the differences. We had imagined that we both worked in a similar way to each other. Since each counsellor's experiences of group supervision are limited, one may tend to believe that what one knows is what ‘it is’. When we undertook informal research with other practitioners, we ...
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