Supervision in the Mental Health Professions BRAND NEW

Supervision now has increased significance in the professional lives 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 health, including counseling, psychotherapy, counseling psychology, psychiatry, nursing, and social work.

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Reviewer: Pierre R. Nunez, PhD (Cermak Health Services)
Description: This book is designed to help those undertaking the supervisory role in mental health to develop ideas and skills associated with this role. The book focuses on the purpose and process of supervision, and the basic tasks of the supervisor. In addition, the authors focus on the responsibilities of the supervisor and supervisee.
Purpose: The purpose is to help mental health supervisors develop and enhance their skills in supervision, including the clarification of the role and responsibilities of both parties, and the ethical and boundary-related dilemmas associated with both roles. These objectives are essential to the training and supervisory process in professional training, and the authors provide clear, useful, and thought-provoking discussion in service of these objectives.
Audience: The intended audience for this book is identified as the supervisor or practitioner in any field related to mental health, including such helping areas as counseling, clinical psychology, social work, psychiatry, expressive art therapy, education, nursing, speech therapy. The model of supervision presented by the authors, called the General Supervision Framework (GSF) is highly useful and widely applicable. The principal author has over 20 years of experience teaching, lecturing, and writing on the supervisory process in the United Kingdom.
Features: The book offers a useful and comprehensive discussion of the learning process in supervision, including the relationship, process, structure, and the supervisory contract. Potentially helpful tools, such as the learning log and reflective journal, are offered to guide and enhance the learning process. The authors also provide information on instruments designed to assess supervisory style.
Assessment: This outstanding work is likely to reward richly supervisors who wish to understand more fully their role. The authors create a clear and highly usable method of thinking through expectations for the supervisory process, and offer guidelines for ensuring that these expectations are clearly communicated to the supervisee. In addition, the authors offer useful supervisory examples to illustrate their points. This is a valuable contribution to the field of supervision, the essential component of all clinical training.