Counselling Supervision – Supervising the Counsellor: A Cyclical Model

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the authors state (p. 12) that the recent "unprecedented growth" of the movement to blend together counselling and psychotherapy has forced counsellors and supervisors of counsellors to "adapt" their needs to the new realities. Out of this evolution of the marriage between counselling and psychotherapy, the authors explain, have come two distinct groups of counselling supervisors: one is the "approach-oriented supervisor" (using a practical method which the entire institution they are associated with also uses); the other approach is "eclectic" (using a more "broad range of approaches" in order to be able to "speak the language" of a diversity of supervisees).
And so the point of these last two paragraphs is that psychoanalysis was, and is, a sturdy part of the process of supervising, training and guiding the professional counsellor.

Ethics and Responsibilities

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- "supervision refers to the opportunity for the counsellor or therapist to discuss her or his work with a more experienced colleague." And certainly, in the counselling profession, supervision is not the equivalent of "line management" - and indeed there is, Jacobs asserts (p. 1) ...an established norm...that counsellors should continue to be supervised throughout their working life." In the codes of the British Association for Counselling, there is a "minimum of an hour and a half a month for supervision" for all counsellors.
And according to Supervising Counsellors: Issues of Responsibility (Wheeler, et al, 2001), the purpose of supervision primarily is "safeguarding the client" by ...

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