The contemporary relational supervisor

"The Contemporary Relational Supervisor is an empirically-based, academically-sophisticated, and learner-friendly book on the cutting edge of couple and family therapy supervision. Appropriate for master's and doctoral level students, as well as experienced clinicians who wish to learn about supervision, it emphasizes system and relational thinking and intervention, while privileging the diversity of training system members, their realities, experiences, and interpretations of life. The authors are attuned throughout the text to how and where clinical training and services are provided, and to whom, and provide detailed literature reviews for readers. These factors assist their discussion of the socio-historic development of the MFT supervision designation, and the fundamentals, contexts, philosophy, relationships, and pragmatics of MFT supervision. They also discuss major models and approaches, evaluation, ethical and legal issues, and therapist development. Perhaps most important is their presentation of methods that help tailor and extend supervision practices to meet the clinical, institutional, and economic realities that MFT therapists navigate. Readers are engaged by the discussions and exercises at the end of each chapter, which help them to feel more grounded in a topic, to have their own voices heard, and to be granted insight through experiencing multiple realities. This valuable reference prepares the next wave of cutting-edge CFT supervisors, those who are knowledgeable, skilled, and realistically confident"--

Machine generated contents note: 1. Basic Ingredients in the Supervisory Process -- Getting the Training Process Started -- Interdependent Fundamentals of Supervision of Relational Therapies -- Exercises -- 2. Supervisory Relationships, Roles, and Goals -- Supervisory Relationship -- Other Important Supervisory Roles -- Pragmatics of Navigating Supervision Roles -- Supervision Goals -- Exercises -- 3. Getting Started: Readiness and Procedures -- Education, Training, and Experience -- Participant Diversity -- Developmental Aspects of Supervision -- Education and Training Requirements -- Pragmatics of Getting Started -- Fundamental Processes of Supervision -- A Minimalist Way to Begin Cases -- Exercises -- 4. Screening, Contracts, Core Competencies, and Evaluation -- Screening -- Contracts -- Core Competencies -- Evaluation -- Evaluation of Supervision -- Exercises -- 5.A Closer Look at Supervision Formats -- Individual and Group Approaches: Advantages and Disadvantages.

Contents note continued: Live and Retrospective Approaches: Advantages and Disadvantages -- Contemporary Variations; Novel Concerns -- Exercises -- 6. Approaches to Supervision -- Major Models of Therapy as Templat…