Supervision Questions and Answers for Counsellors and Therapists By MOIRA WALKER BA, MSC, FBACP and MICHAEL JACOBS MA, FBACP both of Bournemouth University Series Editor MICHAEL JACOBS W WHURR PUBLISHERS LONDON AND PHILADELPHIA Supervision Questions and Answers for Counsellors and Therapists Supervision Questions and Answers for Counsellors and Therapists By MOIRA WALKER BA, MSC, FBACP and MICHAEL JACOBS MA, FBACP both of Bournemouth University Series Editor MICHAEL JACOBS W WHURR PUBLISHERS LONDON AND PHILADELPHIA © 2004 Whurr Publishers Ltd First published 2004 by Whurr Publishers Ltd 19b Compton Terrace London N1 2UN England and 325 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia PA 19106 USA Reprinted 2004 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of Whurr Publishers Limited. This publication is sold subject to the conditions that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed upon any subsequent purchaser. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN 1 86156 414 7 Typeset by Adrian McLaughlin,
[email protected] Printed and bound in the UK by Athenæum Press Ltd, Gateshead, Tyne & Wear. Contents Contributors Preface ix xi Chapter 1 1 The supervisee: initial questions 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 1.10 1.11 1.12 What is supervision? Is it for me or my client? How am I expected to use supervision? What are the different models of supervision? How much supervision should I have? What should I be looking for in a supervisor? What is a ‘verbatim’ and is it useful? Is it important for me to have a supervisor who has the same theoretical base as that which informs my training? Is it necessary to present all my counselling work in supervision? I have been informed that I am to be supervised by my line manager. Is that not contrary to the guidelines for good practice? Should I tell my clients that I present them in supervision? Is it useful to tape sessions and play tapes back in supervision? Have you any advice on how I might make notes for the work I take to supervision? v <