A Practical Guide to Transformative Supervision for the Helping Professions: Amplifying Insight

by Nicki Weld, Jan Fook (Foreword)

Supervision is a valuable protected space for personal and professional development that has the potential to contribute greatly 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 social workers, 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.

146 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 15, 2011

Reviews

[Paul · Rating 3 out of 5]

The clue is in the title and because the book covers all of the helping professions it has a fairly broad sweep and is not too specific. Weld focuses on the supervisory relationship itself to a great extent with a significant emphasis on emotions and intuition. There are a number of personal insights and stories. There is also a tendency to be over introspective which is something that irritates me. However there are some practical suggestions and these are of more use. On the whole worthwhile.