Group Supervision
A Guide to Creative Practice
- Brigid Proctor - Consultant, London
Counselling Supervision
Among the plethora of supervision books, Group Supervision is the only one dedicated to group work. Brigid Proctor shows how group supervision can provide a supportive environment in which practitioners learn from each others' experience, finding positive and creative ways of working with the diversity which characterises all groups.
Examining tasks, roles and responsibilities of both supervisors and supervisees, she describes the skills needed for:
" managing different types of group,
" developing a flexible leadership style
" making sense of group and individual needs
" using creative methods.
The Second Edition of this popular text features up-to-date research findings on group supervision in organisations and further coverage of the challenge of ethical decision-making in groups. A new chapter considers the advantages of groups for supervisor development and training, stressing the urgency for greater accountability and research. Essential for all supervisors and trainers, the practical information in this book will also benefit those who manage organizations providing group supervision for counsellors and psychotherapists- be they employees, volunteers or trainees.
Brigid Proctor, Fellow of the BACP, is a retired Director of Counselling courses at South West London College and has subsequently worked freelance as a counsellor, supervisor, trainer and consultant.
This classic text, through its clear writing and structure, transcends its counselling origins into proving also to be an invaluable guide for those working in other social care and therapeutic arenas
Our students have found this helpful in preparing fo group supervision.
By focussing on the group supervision, this book is definitely one for the shelf of any student in this area, as well as practitioners who want to get the most from this form of supervision. The latest edition has been updated with recent thinking in both research and the part that this form of supervision can play in Professional Practice.
I found this text very helpful and will reccommend and use it in my current teaching role. I specifically found the explicit naming and thinking about the role we assume for the training organisation "the stakeholder".
This book creates the space for an in depth reflectionon the role of supervisor. I found the chapter on Agreements particularly helpful in giving me a framework for the work and also the creation of the safe space from which exploration can take place. The book covers a wide range of topics and encourages clarity and depth of thinking.
Some useful information in it. Suggested that they use this as background reading prior to participating in group processes themselves.
This is a book I would recommend to mental health nuring students as they encounter group supervision, this book would help them prepare for and make sense of their experience.
I found this to be an excellent text , interesting, imaginative insightful and well written with a wide perspective and vision of considerations. A must for students progressing into a senior supervisory or mentoral role in psychotheray or health care....I would have liked to have seen a chapter on Solution Focussed Supervision which would I belive raise the readership of this text to a wider source. Well done.
