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Book SynopsisRESOLVING CRITICAL ISSUES IN CLINICAL SUPERVISION Address key challenges in clinical supervision with this comprehensive account of common critical issues faced by almost all practitioners
Clinical supervision is a crucial aspect of clinical practice across the health and social professions. It can directly impact patient outcomes, shape clinical careers, and generally enhance professional development more broadly. The relationship between a clinical supervisor and their supervisees is therefore a hugely important one, embedded within challenging health and social care settings, which produces unique and complex challenges, but for which little formal guidance exists.
Resolving Critical Issues in Clinical Supervision answers the need for guidance of this kind with a practical, accessible discussion of major challenges and their possible solutions, drawing on the best available evidence from research, expert consensus, and relevant theory. It provid
Table of Contents
About the Authors viii
Acknowledgements ix
1 Introduction: What are the Critical Issues in Supervision? 1
2 What Is the Appropriate Supervisory Relationship? 22
3 Who Is Ultimately Responsible for Patient Care? 39
4 Understanding Unethical Issues in Clinical Supervision 50
5 Resolving Unethical Issues in Clinical Supervision 68
6 Resolving Critical Issues in Training for Supervision 88
7 Skills in Dealing with Incompetent Supervisors 114
8 Skills in Dealing with Challenging Supervisees 136
9 Resolving Other Supervisee Challenges: Ineffective Treatment 156
10 Placing Supervision in Context: How the Organizational System Affects the Quality of Supervision 172
11 Conclusions: What Do We Now Know about Resolving Critical Issues in Supervision? 196
Index 204
