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Practical Guide to Transformative Supervision for the Helping Profession

s: Amplifying Insight
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Supervision is a valuable protected space for personal andprofessional development that has the potential to contributegreatly to positive transformative change.This book explores what is meant by transformative supervision and how it can be undertaken. It examines the key factors that contribute to the transformative function, such as the role of observation and questioning, the importance of working with emotions, and exploring intuition. The book takes an in-depth look at the supervisory relationship and offers real examples from practice to illustrate the ideas in action. Offering a range of practical strategies, techniques, and approaches to enhance current supervision practice, this book brings a new voice to the topic of supervision by emphasising how it can contribute to continuous learning and self-development.Suitable for all those in the helping professions including socialworkers, counsellors, psychotherapists, occupational therapists, nurses and probation officers, this practical book is an invaluable guide to enhancing supervision and promoting both individual and social change.
Foreword by Jan Fook. Introduction. 1. Describing the Transformative Function. 2. The Importance of Openness. 3. Applying Our Observations. 4. Working with Emotion. 5. Exploring the Role of Intuition. 6. The Environment of Workers. 7. Global Influences. 8. Supervisors as Leaders. Conclusion. Index.

This short book takes the reader on an absorbing journey to the transformative potential that supervision holds within the current environment in which we live and practice... The book is innovative, creative and practical, and revitalises our thoughts around theuse of supervision and critically reflective practice. Weld provides a personal quality to the book through the sharing of her own experiences that engages the reader... I strongly recommend this text to everyoneengaged in a supervisory relationship in the helping professions with a desire to enhance their practice and promote change.

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