Category: Emotions
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Liz Omand, “What makes for good supervision and whose responsibility is it anyway?”
Liz Omand suggests that within the counseling and psychotherapy, the supervisory relationship is complicated and may lead to experiences of anxiety, frustration, conflict and misunderstanding while also fostering excitement and satisfaction. Thus, to be a good supervisor, there are several qualities that supervisors must espouse. Supervisors must be prepared to learn by way of elaboration…
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Michael Ellis, “Harmful Supervision, a Cause for Alarm: Comment on Gray et al (2001) and Nelson and Friedlander”
Ellis comments on the supervision literature as of 2001, noting that “bad” supervision (e.g., not meeting with the supervisee) was lumped in with “harmful” supervision (e.g., sexual harassment). Ellis tries to differentiate between the two, noting that “bad” supervision “does not result in any psychological or emotional trauma or harm to the supervisees or to…
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Liz Beddoe, “Harmful Supervision: A Commentary”
This article explores harmful clinical supervision in mental health professions. Harmful supervision is, by definition, inadequate supervision. Minimally adequate supervision may consist of the following elements: the supervisor provides a minimum of one hour of face-to-face individual supervision per week, has the appropriate knowledge and skills for clinical supervision, promotes and is invested in supervisee…
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Heidi Hutman, Michael Ellis & Shangyun Zhou, “Supervisees’ Perspectives of Inadequate, Harmful, and Exceptional Clinical Supervision: Are We Listening?”
This article defines elements of “harmful”, “inadequate” and “exceptional” supervision based on qualitative research. This expanded on the work of Ellis, noted above. Supervisees who reported harmful experiences described supervisors as neglectful and callous, etc. Harmful supervision reflected “supervisory practices that result in psychological, emotional, and/or physical harm or trauma to the supervisee… The two…
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Allyson Davys & Liz Beddow, Best Practice in Professional Supervision: A Guide for the Helping Professions
This book examines supervision in the healthcare professions. Professional supervision in the health professions provides the core functions of accountability, education, and support. This book discusses four supervision models or approaches: developmental models of supervision, reflective models, post-modern approaches, and cultural supervision (see Chapter 2). Developmental models of supervision consist of three categories: those that…