Supervision as Social Construction

Bobele, Monte; Gardner, Glen T.; Biever, Joan L.

doi:10.1521/jsyt.1995.14.2.14

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“…The all-seeing, all-knowing, all-powerful, ever-present clinical supervisor is mythical (Farrington, 1995). Indeed, Bobele et al (1997) note that practiced expertise can close down the possibility for new meanings to arise in CS. One implication might be convergence on a limited number of interventions, or even on the best evidence based treatment.…”

Section: Egalitarian Consultation Meetings (Ecms)mentioning

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Postmodernising Clinical Supervision in Nursing

Stevenson

2005

Issues in Mental Health Nursing

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Clinical supervision (CS) has been organised and conducted around specific modernist principles, despite claims of the need for, or existence of, heterogeneity. A postmodernist perspective is used to challenge the idea that there is a correct structure (hierarchical) and function (developing supervisee self-awareness, detecting and resolving "real" problems) for CS. The meaning of CS can be locally constructed. In an egalitarian consultation, expertise is shared and multiplicity in clinical stories is celebrated. Practitioners are liberated in relation to deciding what approaches fit for the person in context. They feel strengthened by the cohesion of a group with a flattened hierarchy and, within limits, able to challenge existing policy and practice.

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Section: Egalitarian Consultation Meetings (Ecms)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Postmodernising Clinical Supervision in Nursing

Stevenson

2005

Issues in Mental Health Nursing

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“…It would seem that the dominant discourses about supervision locate the supervisor in a position of power over the supervisee. Supervisees are likely to perceive their supervisor as more expert and more experienced than themselves and as fulfilling a professional gatekeeping function regarding the profession (Bobele et al 1995). This view is reinforced through the institutionalized practices governing who might be able to occupy a supervisory position adopted by the field, such as the existence of a selective supervision training course leading to the status of registered supervisor.…”

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“…I would contend that this is a political issue. The supervisor holds a position of power over the supervisee resulting from the dominant discourses at work concerning supervision, evidenced by, for instance, the supervisee's probable perception of the supervisor as more expert and more experienced (Bobele et al, 1995). The supervisor can exercise this power to either perpetuate or challenge inequalities, such as the inequality between white people and black people.…”

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Race, racism and systemic supervision

Pendry

2011

Journal of Family Therapy

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The idea of ‘race’ and the social reality of racism have gained increasing attention in family and systemic psychotherapy. This article seeks to extend this attention by focusing upon the influence of race and racism in the supervision of family and systemic psychotherapy. The way in which the idea of race might be conceptualized is discussed, before looking at how race and racism have been addressed in the field. Attention is then turned to systemic supervision, focusing upon the ideas generated about how supervisors might position themselves in relation to these issues, the implications this might have for the supervisory relationship and the relationships between supervisees and client families. It is proposed that by virtue of the supervisor's position of power over the supervisee, it is the supervisor's responsibility to initiate conversations about race and racism. A proposal for this task is outlined, which recognizes that these conversations are ongoing. A concluding assertion is made that such conversations should form part of the evaluative process for trainee supervisors.

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“…TF recalled a previous post‐session exercise where supervisees reflected on the practice and the rest of team reflected on their reflections, mirroring that of the reflecting team in practice. Both supervisors wondered whether a similar structure for practice evaluation might provide a creative alternative to the modernist practice, as described by Bobele et al (1995, p.16, citing Allen, 1993, p.40) of drawing entirely on the pre‐knowledge of the supervisees and the ‘drawing of irrevocable conclusions which are substantiated by selectively gathering and attending to data which support the theory’.…”

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Close encounters of the third order kind

Angell¹,

Brown²,

Forster

et al. 2010

Journal of Family Therapy

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This article describes an exercise developed for assessing trainee family therapists' practice at the end of a placement year in a manner consistent with the third‐order positioning the trainees were endeavouring to adopt in their practice. Evaluation by the trainees confirmed that the exercise had provided them with a significant opportunity to co‐construct with the supervisors their practice learning and future learning goals.

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Supervision as Social Construction

Cited by 20 publications

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Postmodernising Clinical Supervision in Nursing

Postmodernising Clinical Supervision in Nursing

Race, racism and systemic supervision

Close encounters of the third order kind

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