Professional Supervision

Overview

The role of the counsellor (for example) is to facilitate the person’s resolution of these issues, whilst respect their values, personal resources, culture and capacity for choice. Counselling can provide people with a regular time and space to talk about their problems and explore difficult feelings in a confidential and dependable environment.

Throughout this process, the counsellor is faced with many difficult situations; which may impact upon their own well being; and in turn, reduce their capacity to be a good counsellor. Because of this situation, counsellors themselves need to be monitored and supported in a variety of ways.

A professional supervisor is the person a counsellor will turn to for this “support”. Learn all about this role with the Professional Supervision course from Warnborough College.

Course aims

• To understand what is meant by professional supervision, why it is necessary, benefits and disadvantages;

• To define and compare different models of supervision including reciprocal mentoring, group supervision, self supervision, and agency supervision;

• To develop an understanding of professional issues of supervision including confidentiality, ethics, quality control, and legal concerns;

• To understand and define different approaches to supervision including psychoanalytic, cognitive-behavioural, solution-orientated, process-orientated and narrative methods;

• To understand some of the different approaches applied to supervision for different professional groups;

• To understand the different requirements of providing supervision in organisations where most employees are counsellors, organisations where counsellors are in the minority, and organisations of non-counsellors;

• To identify the different managerial components of the supervision process including budgeting, monitoring frequency of supervision, selection of supervisors, and the question of standardisation.