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Group Supervision
A Guide to Creative Practice

Second Edition

October 2008 | 248 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
Praise for the First Edition:
"A welcome addition to the literature... I thank Brigid Proctor for her guidelines for good practice and stimulating ideas for using the potential of groupwork within the supervision process."
- ACCORD

Among the plethora of supervision books, Group Supervision is the only one dedicated to working in groups. The strength of group supervision is that it can provide a supportive environment in which practitioners freely share and learn from their own and others' experience.

As Brigid Proctor shows, the key to success is to find positive and creative ways of working with the diversity which characterizes all groups. Examining tasks, roles, and responsibilities of both supervisors and supervisees, she describes the skills needed for
  • Managing different types of groups
  • Developing a flexible leadership style
  • Making sense of group and individual needs
  • Using creative methods
The Second Edition of this popular text features up-to-date research findings on group supervision in organizations, and further coverage of the challenge of diversity, and ethical decision-making in groups. A new chapter considers the advantages of groups for supervisor development and training, and stresses the urgency for greater accountability and practitioner research.

Essential for all supervisors and their trainers, the practical and ethical information covered in this book will also be of benefit to those who manage organizations which provide group supervision for counsellors and psychotherapists– be they employees, volunteers, or trainees.


 
PART I THE GROUP SUPERVISION ALLIANCE MODEL
 
Setting the Scene
 
The Group Option
 
A Typology for Supervision Groups
 
PART II MANAGING SUPERVISION GROUPS
 
Agreements as Friends
 
Skilful Group Allies - Supervisor and Members
 
Strategic Priorities
 
Hot Issues of Group Life
 
Sharing Responsibility - Peer Groups
 
PART III SUPERVISING IN GROUPS
 
The Harvest
 
Inviting Creativity
 
PART IV DEVELOPMENT
 
Groups for Developing Supervision
 
Training, Research and Accountability

This classic text, through its clear writing and structure, transcends its counselling origins into proving also to be an invaluable guide for those working in other social care and therapeutic arenas

Mr Wulf Livingston
Health and Social Care, Glyndwr University
May 9, 2012

Our students have found this helpful in preparing fo group supervision.

Mrs Mary Sherrill
Health & Social Care, Tresham Institute
April 5, 2012

By focussing on the group supervision, this book is definitely one for the shelf of any student in this area, as well as practitioners who want to get the most from this form of supervision. The latest edition has been updated with recent thinking in both research and the part that this form of supervision can play in Professional Practice.

Mr Mike Bancroft
Counselling, Alton College
August 5, 2011

I found this text very helpful and will reccommend and use it in my current teaching role. I specifically found the explicit naming and thinking about the role we assume for the training organisation "the stakeholder".

This book creates the space for an in depth reflectionon the role of supervisor. I found the chapter on Agreements particularly helpful in giving me a framework for the work and also the creation of the safe space from which exploration can take place. The book covers a wide range of topics and encourages clarity and depth of thinking.

Ms Jo Cruywagen
Department of Psychology, Roehampton University
July 19, 2011

Some useful information in it. Suggested that they use this as background reading prior to participating in group processes themselves.

Mr Balakrishnan Rajamanickam
Fac of Health & Social Care Sciences, Kingston University
May 13, 2011

This is a book I would recommend to mental health nuring students as they encounter group supervision, this book would help them prepare for and make sense of their experience.

Pamela Pringle
social work and mental health, Canterbury Christ Church University
August 27, 2010

I found this to be an excellent text , interesting, imaginative insightful and well written with a wide perspective and vision of considerations. A must for students progressing into a senior supervisory or mentoral role in psychotheray or health care....I would have liked to have seen a chapter on Solution Focussed Supervision which would I belive raise the readership of this text to a wider source. Well done.

Mr Tony Ford
Division of Mental Health & Learning Disability, Northumbria University
July 9, 2010
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