Supervision of Counselling and Psychotherapy Certificate

Programme at a Glance

The content of the course encompasses the following:

• What is counselling supervision?
• The role of the supervisor
• The supervision contract
• The tasks of supervision (Michael Carroll); implications for practice
• Process model (Hawkins & Shohet); implications for practice
• The Cyclical model (Page & Woskett); implications for practice
• The developmental process of the supervisee
• The authority of the supervisor

• What do we need research for in supervision?
• Developing a personal philosophy of supervision
• Parallel process
• BACP ethical framework and its implications for supervision
• Wrestling with ethical dilemmas that may arise in supervision
• Culture within supervision
• What might supervisees withhold in supervision?
• Creative approaches to supervision
• Developing practice