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Book Synopsis

Supervision assures the quality of professional practice through careful monitoring; it heals wounds through wholesome listening and support and offers a unique and free space to develop that which we all want to progress: our personal relationships.

This book will help professional supervisors, consultants and coaches with the `care for the self aspect of their role - the art of enhancing one s own performance with the help of experience in practice. The book features:

  • A compact overview of the whole profession of coaching and consulting supervision
  • An integrated approach for coaches and consultants, highlighting differences
  • More than 40 real-life case vignettes
  • Short summaries after each chapter
  • A full overview of types of contract and methodology, with specific flowcharts
  • A detailed introduction to the ethics of supervision
Supervision in Action is a book for all professional consultants who want to take go

Table of Contents
Series editor's preface
Introduction: metaphors for supervision

Supervision as quality assurance: strengthening nested relationships
Techniques of the supervisor: echoes of other relationships
Techniques of the supervisee: scales of reflection
The organisation supervisor: shadow consulting in full colour
Transcript of a supervision session: all the things I didn’t say
Supervision methods: improvisation and structure
Ethical maturity and contracting for supervision: the full quality cycle

Appendix A: The history of transference and parallel processes
Appendix B: The relational approach and quantitative research
References
Index

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      Publisher: Open University Press
      Publication Date: 16/02/2012
      ISBN13: 9780335245772, 978-0335245772
      ISBN10: 335245773
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Supervision assures the quality of professional practice through careful monitoring; it heals wounds through wholesome listening and support and offers a unique and free space to develop that which we all want to progress: our personal relationships.

      This book will help professional supervisors, consultants and coaches with the `care for the self aspect of their role - the art of enhancing one s own performance with the help of experience in practice. The book features:

      • A compact overview of the whole profession of coaching and consulting supervision
      • An integrated approach for coaches and consultants, highlighting differences
      • More than 40 real-life case vignettes
      • Short summaries after each chapter
      • A full overview of types of contract and methodology, with specific flowcharts
      • A detailed introduction to the ethics of supervision
      Supervision in Action is a book for all professional consultants who want to take go

      Table of Contents
      Series editor's preface
      Introduction: metaphors for supervision

      Supervision as quality assurance: strengthening nested relationships
      Techniques of the supervisor: echoes of other relationships
      Techniques of the supervisee: scales of reflection
      The organisation supervisor: shadow consulting in full colour
      Transcript of a supervision session: all the things I didn’t say
      Supervision methods: improvisation and structure
      Ethical maturity and contracting for supervision: the full quality cycle

      Appendix A: The history of transference and parallel processes
      Appendix B: The relational approach and quantitative research
      References
      Index

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