Supervision: Maximising Your Sessions

In this course, mental health helpers are shown how they can maximise their supervision sessions. Chapter 1 reviews the broader aims of supervision and the qualities that ensure a supervisee is able to grow through supervision. Appropriate learning goals, approach to learning, type of supervisory relationship, and management processes are discussed. Chapter 2 examines supervisor behaviours and traits, questions to ask a prospective supervisor, and elements of a supervision contract. Supervisee rights and responsibilities and how to work with a supervisor in a strengths-based way comprise the third chapter, while Chapter 4 looks at phenomena which tend to be out-of-awareness, but which can derail supervision: factors such as resistance, attachment styles, shame avoidance, and transference.