Developing Counsellor Supervision / Edition 1

by Colin Feltham, Windy Dryden

Overview

Supervision is a professional and ethical necessity for all counsellors, providing them with consultative and supportive aid while protecting clients from potential abuse - yet relatively little has been written on the subject. This volume aims to redress that balance.

Encouraging, yet sensitive to the difficult issues that frequently arise in supervision, the book contains practical suggestions, plus useful appendices, to help practising and trainee supervisors develop and enhance the skills they need to be successful in their work. The authors cover such key areas as creating a supervisory alliance, fostering the supervisory relationship, the use of tape-recording, highlighting supervisees' strengths and weaknesses, and protecting the client and counsellor.

Addressed primarily to practitioners who have had some experience in the field, this book will also be of interest to counsellor trainees who want to know what is involved in supervision and to counsellors who are intending to train as supervisors.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780803989399
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	06/14/1994
Series:	Developing Counselling Series , #2
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	5.43(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Colin Feltham is series editor of Professional Skills for Counsellors and Short Introductions to the Therapy Professions series, co-editor of SAGE Handbook of Counselling and Psychotherapy and author of several SAGE texts, including What is Counselling?

Windy Dryden is one of the leading practitioners and trainers in the UK in the Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) tradition of psychotherapy. He is best known for his work in Rational-Emotive Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (RECBT), a leading CBT approach. He has been working in the field of counselling and psychotherapy since 1975 and was one of the first people in Britain to be trained in CBT.

He has published over 200 books and has trained therapists all over the world, in as diverse places as the UK, the USA, South Africa, Turkey and Israel.

He is Emeritus Professor of Psychotherapeutic Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Creating a Supervisory Alliance
Utilizing a Variety of Supervisory Foci and Methods
Fostering and Using the Supervisory Relationship
Using the Developmental Opportunities of Supervision
Highlighting Supervisees' Strengths and Weaknesses
Protecting the Client and the Counsellor
Epilogue