Disclaimer: Nothing in this document should be taken or held as clinical instruction, clinical supervision, or advisory concerning patient care.
Below is the full text of a monograph on the clinical supervision of clinical supervision.
The work includes material addressing:
- Four particular stories from my career that apply to the importance of the topic
- A model and framework for the clinical supervision of counseling
- Reasons why the clinical supervision of clinical supervision is important
- Parallel process and structural isomorphism
- An example of a supervisory structure
- Two key reading recommendations
- Stages of group development
- Supervision of supervisory tasks
- Mentoring the clinical supervisor
- Considerations drawn from Hollis, Fraiberg, and Winnicott
- Leadership, and its application inside the supervision of supervision
References and suggested readings are provided as well.
From a boots-on-the-ground perspective in the addiction treatment and clinical SUD services arena, topics like burnout and staff turnover seem to loom large. And do so consistently over time. Perhaps some of the material in this monograph can provide a fresh look at upstream influences that are worth considering, if only for reasons such as those.
But in truth, the material in the monograph is aimed at developing the clinician, the person apprenticing as a clinical supervisor, and the one who has provided clinical supervision for a long time.
I hope the work contains something that someone finds refreshing or beneficial in a practical way.
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