Developing Counsellor Supervision

Perceptions of guidance officers and senior guidance officers about clinical supervision: a preliminary study

“…The existing literature on clinical supervision is derived from a variety of professions including psychology, social work, counselling, school counselling and family therapy. There is agreement throughout the literature on both the need for and purposes of clinical supervision (Bernard & Goodyear, 1992;Boyd, 1978;Bradley, 1989;Feltham & Dryden, 1994;Littrell, Lee-Bordin & Lorenz, 1979;Proctor, 1994), and these are clearly linked to quality of service provision to clients, accountable practice, and personal, professional and competency development of counsellors (ACES Supervision Interest Group, 1995;Boyd, 1978;Bradley, 1989;Vargus, 1977). In fact, ethical guidelines for counsellors both in Australia and elsewhere, clearly require counsellors to receive clinical supervision (ACES Supervision Interest Group, 1995; British Association for Counsellors cited in Feltham & Dryden, 1994;Queensland Guidance and Counselling Association, 1994).…”

“…However while many advances have been made in the development and recognition of supervision as a speciality within counselling (Bernard & Goodyear, 1992;Dye & Borders, 1990;Feltham & Dryden, 1994), there appears to be a significant gap between the rhetoric and the practices of clinical supervision, especially outside of training settings. In particular, concern has been expressed that counsellors outside of training settings receive little supervision and that many supervisors have received no training.…”

Improving one's practice of clinical supervision of guidance officers

“…There is a gap between the dominant supervision-cum-peer support culture in my district and what the literature (Feltham & Dryden, 1994;Hawkins & Shohet, 1989;Proctor, 1994) would consider to be ideal. Peer supervision if structured (Benshoff & Paisley, 1996;Borders, 1991) could form an important part of a system of supervision.…”

“…Those of us who collaborated in the educational action research responded enthusiastically to Proctor's (1994) notion of supervision providing an opportunity to improve one's confidence, competence and creativity. It was also learned that clinical supervision, whether it be the training supervision of beginning guidance officers or the consultative supervision of experienced ones, is ultimately aimed at the guidance officer meeting the needs of the guidance officer's client (Feltham & Dryden, 1994). The term "the client" not only referred to a specific person but also in the general sense of the term.…”

Debriefing Strategies in Adventure Based Counselling

“…Supervision has been defined as providing consultation, support, education and evaluation (Bradley & Kottler, 2001) and different models may have been used to meet the needs of the facilitators in the current case. For example, there exist a variety of supervision models including atheoretical, task orientated models of supervision (Feltham & Dryden, 1994;Page & Wosket, 1994) as well as theoretical approaches to supervision, such as a solution-orientated approach (Lowe & Guy, 2001) or a psychoanalytic perspective (Embelton, 2001).…”