A recent article about changing clinical supervisors is available in the June 2019 issue of Therapy Today (Bean, L. and Perkins, K. 2019. Time to Change? Therapy Today 30:5). The article is currently only available to BACP members but it is worth checking out as it provides a useful outline of what we can expect from our clinical supervisors and/or what we should be offering as clinical supervisors. I particularly liked this:
“A good enough supervisor:
- has up-to-date skills, knowledge and expertise in our therapeutic modality
- can speak about differences in thinking and approach in a spirit of enquiry and non-judgement (especially if from a different therapeutic modality)
- validates our work and challenges both thinking and practice
- conducts meetings in an atmosphere of respect, openness and curiosity that encourages our development1
- demonstrates attunement to us
- maintains boundaries and focus
- canvasses for and accepts feedback.”
It also provides a handy list of BACP resources relating to supervision.