tailieunhanh - Supervision in the Mental Health Professions: A practitioner’s guide

Supervision, particularly as a component of initial training, and increasingly as a contributory element in continuing professional development, is deeply embedded in the cultures of the helping professions. This is despite the claim (Holloway and Neufeldt, 1995) that there is no research on standardised and empirically validated training programmes for supervisors. Client outcome is the ultimate test of the effectiveness of supervision. But the relationship between supervisor interventions and client change is subtle and complex. Not surprisingly, attempts to account for and understand this relationship have produced little of substance, and serious methodological deficiencies prevail (Ellis, Ladany, Krengel and Schult, 1996; Holloway and Neufeldt, 1995; Russell, Crimmings and Lent, 1984) | Supervision in the Mental Health Professions A practitioner s guide Joyce Scaife With contributions from Francesca Inskipp Brigid Proctor Jon Scaife and Sue Walsh Also available as a printed book see title verso for ISBN details Supervision in the Mental Health Professions A practitioner s guide Supervision is of increasing significance in the practice of mental health professionals especially since the advent of voluntary and mandatory registration managed care and clinical governance. Little however has been written to address the practical and theoretical needs and questions of those involved. In Supervision in the Mental Health Professions Joyce Scaife along with her guest contributors draws on over two decades of experience to illustrate ways of thinking about and doing supervision. Using practical examples she explores often-encountered dilemmas including How can supervisors facilitate learning What are the ethical bases of supervision What helps to create a good working alliance Supervision in the Mental Health Professions is a comprehensive practical and indispensable text for supervisors and supervisees involved in mental healthcare including clinical psychology counselling psychotherapy counselling psychology psychiatry nursing and social work. Joyce Scaife is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist with North Derbyshire Community Health Care NHS Trust and Director of Clinical Practice for the Doctor of Clinical Psychology training course at the University of Sheffield. She has over twenty years of experience as a supervisor of clinical .