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see supervision as a shared responsibility
and a collaborative activity.
I respect the theoretical orientation in which you work.
As your supervisor my primary responsibility is
to ensure your client’s safety.
However, I envisage my care for you
and my responsibility to you, as my
supervisee, following only a ‘hair’s breadth’
behind.
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My model of
supervision
My supervision has four main tasks. Together,
we share the responsibility of your:
- work with clients who may
be challenging or in distress in a counselling process which
can, at times, be confusing.
- skill, knowledge and understanding development
- maintaining your well-being through
supporting you to express your feelings such as lament or
frustration, to ‘let off
steam’, laugh and to speak the unspeakable or the
outrageous
- practising safely and ethically
My model of supervision focuses equally on
- our supervisory relationship (what
is happening between us, ensuring our continuous working alliance)
- and our supervisory task (your ‘what
I want from supervision’ contract with me)
and focuses on three levels:
1. the story of your work
with your client and how you are responding to it
2. what is happening between you and me
in the here and now as a
result of discussing your client
3. the social context in which your
counselling is taking place (discussing organisational, cultural,
political influences)
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