Strengths-Based Supervision in Clinical Practice

Jeffrey K. Edwards

The next generation of supervision

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Counselling Training & Supervision (General) | Social Work Training & Supervision

June 2012 | 264 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc

Moving away from the usual medical-modeled framework of mental health focused on problems, Strengths-Based Supervision in Clinical Practice takes a postmodern, social construction approach, looking for and amplifying strengths and encouraging stakeholders to use them. Based on research in brain science, as well as from the Information Age/Connectivity Age thinking, the book reframes the focus of supervision, management, and leadership to one that collaborates and builds on strengths with supervisees as competent stakeholders in their work with their clients. Deconstructing the usual top-down hierarchy, Strengths-Based Supervision leads the reader through the full range of supervision, from the clinical aspects to the administration of all organizations where clinicians are trained, supervised, and encouraged to excel and grow. The book contains two full chapters on traditional clinical supervision before moving on to strengths-based work in not only clinical supervision, but also agency and organizational work, all from a contemporary strengths-based model. The book is chock-full of vignettes and includes a full chapter with two case studies. This is the next generation of supervision.

Forward

Prologue

Part I- In the Beginning

1. The History and Traditions of Clinical Supervision

2. Executive Skills of Strengths-Based Supervision

Part II- A Time for a Change to a New Model

3. A Time for Change

4. Strengths-Based Clinical Supervision Primer: Social Constructivism and Postmodernism

5. Strengths-Based Clinical Supervision Primer: From the Roots of Psychology

6. Larger Systems: Strengths-Based Management and Leadership

Part III- Faces of Strength: Putting my Currency where my Mouth Is

7. Supervision Sessions and Personnel Management: Vantage Point, Point of View, and Perspective

8. Two Case Studies

Part IV- Moving into the Future

9. Lessons Learned and Where to from Here?

10. Epilogue

I have recommended this text to students who are completing four year B Sc nursing and about to undertake 36 week internship programme prior to registration. The advantage of this text is its adoption of a strengths based approach which is the foundation of my teaching approach for practice intervention in mental health setting. The intention of recommending this text is to provide students with supplemental reading and future direction relating to professional supervision.

Dr Ann Sheridan

School of Nursing, Midwifery & Health Systems, University College Dublin

November 28, 2012

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Probable use Fall 2013

Mr Barry Schecter

Health , SUNY Cortland

November 8, 2012

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Useful for group and individual supervision practice. Informative and easy to navigate through the chapters.

Mrs Lyz Howard

Department of Health, Health and Social Care Teaching Team

October 31, 2012

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Useful overview of progressive ways to provide supervision that mirror therapy and allows supervisors to model positive relationship buliding styles during supervision, thereby encouraging supervisees to adopt similar positive styles during therapy.

Mr Chardworth Dhliwayo

Translational Medicine / School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work, University of Manchester

September 28, 2012

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a really encouraging and positive approach to what some new professionals find challenging

Mr Timothy Wallis

Health, University Campus Oldham

September 17, 2012

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good book but quite in a specialised field

Paul Davis

Counselling, Queen's University Belfast