A Practical Guide to Transformative Supervision For The Helping Professions ─ Amplifying Insight

Weld, a social work professional leader for the Wellington district health board in New Zealand who provides training, facilitation, supervision, consultancy, and solutions for child protection and social service management and workers, demonstrates to experienced supervisors (social workers, counselors, psychotherapists, occupational therapists, nurses, and probation officers) the process of transformative supervision. She explores how supervision can become more transformative to enhance insight and contribute to personal and professional change in both the supervisee and supervisor, and discusses the relational foundation required to support this supervision; the roles of openness, observation, questioning, and intuition; the importance of working with emotions; and the influence and impact of the contexts of supervision, including the global context. She ends with a chapter on how supervisors can step up as practice leaders and additional ways to support transformative work. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Nicki Weld is Social Work Professional Leader (general health) for the Wellington district health board in New Zealand. She is also Director of CNZN Ltd, New Zealand, which provides training, facilitation, supervision, consultancy and solutions for child protection and social service management and workers. She has worked for a number of years in a variety of social service and child protection roles, including senior social worker, supervisor, senior trainer, and as a national social work advisor. She is author of Making Sure Children get 'HELD': Ideas and Resources to Help Workers to Place Hope, Empathy, Love and Dignity at the Heart of Child Protection and Support and co-author of Walking in People's Worlds: A Practical and Philosophical Guide to Social Work. She is the co-creator of the Three Houses information gathering tool.