Practical Supervision ― How to Become a Supervisor for the Helping Professions

For new supervisors in health and social care, early childhood services, psychology, coaching, and therapy, this introductory guide explains aspects of supervision with an emphasis on the importance of a contractual agreement with supervisees and awareness of interpersonal relating, empathy, equality, and cooperation, and the need for and skills of encouragement. It addresses relationship styles, tasks and skills, shaping supervision sessions, authority, feedback, supervising and evaluating trainees, using creative methods, working with unconscious processes like transference, supporting teamwork and organizations, group supervision, supervision of supervision groups, the use of communication technology, and ethics. Annotation c2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Penny Henderson, Jim Holloway and Anthea Millar have worked as counsellors and therapists for many years and have extensive experience of supervision training. All are BACP Senior Accredited practitioners and Anthea has a master's degree in Supervision and Training from the University of Birmingham. All three authors are co-directors of Cambridge Supervision Training which runs accredited Certificate and Diploma programmes.