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Critical Supervision for the Human Services: A Social Model to Promote L

earning and Value-Based Practice
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Practitioners in the helping professions today operate in challenging settings where budgets have been cut dramatically, and progression and success are too often defined primarily by key performance indicators and strategic outcomes. Tensions arise when such pressures conflict with helping professionals' core responsibilities to provide excellent care, advocate for patients or service users and to seek social justice.
 
This book introduces a critical model for supervision which addresses not only the human relationships and interactions involved in work, but also the financial, political and managerial environment in which the work is carried out. It identifies how reflective practice alone is not enough to bring about transformational change, and outlines how practitioners can learn in and through supervision, drawing on ideas from critical pedagogy and organisational learning.
 
Practice examples are included to demonstrate the use of this approach within contemporary human service environments.
 
Providing a new approach for effective supervision, this book will be of interest to practitioners, managers, researchers, academics and students working across the human services, including health care, social services and criminal justice.
 
Introduction. 1: Contemporary approaches to supervision in the human services. 2: Human services: Global context. 3: Human services: Organisational and workplace context. 4: Human services: Professional practice context. 5: Core concepts of a critical perspective: 6: Critical pedagogy and transformative learning. 7: Critical supervision: Foundations. 8: Critical supervision: Practice fundamentals. 9: Critical supervision: Pedagogical skills and tools. 10: Critical supervision: Using the process. 11: Critical supervision: Practice examples. Conclusion. Glossary. References.
Critical Supervision in the Human Services is a book we have been waiting for and will be a popular addition to the library of supervisors, educators, and supervision researchers and scholars. This book explores critical perspectives on the role of supervision in human services in the global, organisational and professional domains. Noble, Gray and Johnston deftly apply the critical pedagogies of transformational learning and critical reflection in an enriching exploration of how excellent supervision can promote social justice.
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