1st Edition

Doing Supervision and Being Supervised

By Robert Langs Copyright 1994
    284 Pages
    by Routledge

    284 Pages
    by Routledge

    There is always a lively interest in the supervisory process and its explication. Courses in supervision abound and the critical role of supervision in becoming a psychotherapist is widely acknowledged. It is for this reason that this book aims to present the essentials of supervision, establish validated principles of teaching and learning, define a series of optimal supervisory precepts, consider some of the basic issues in this sometimes difficult arena, explore the supervisee's concerns as the student, and address the future of supervisory work.Supervision should be principled and properly framed, sufficiently consistent and well defined to assure the supervisee the best possible supervisory experience and the supervisor a situation with as little possibility of crisis and untoward reactions, and as much reward as possible. This book is dedicated to both teachers and students: to their growth, maturation and ultimately to better psychotherapy for their patients.

    Foreword -- Introduction -- Issues in supervising psychotherapy -- A clinical foundation for supervisory practices -- Models of supervision and unconscious validation -- Frames and systems: contexts for supervision -- The fixed frame of supervision -- Privacy and confidentiality -- Relative neutrality and anonymity -- The process of supervision -- The Supervisor: basic issues -- The supervisor: basic precepts of supervision -- The supervisee: responsibilities and entitlements -- Supervisory crises -- Taking issue with the standard models of supervision -- Self-processing supervision

    Biography

    Langs, Robert