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Supervision is an essential part of counselling and psychotherapy practice. It is increasingly recognised as a tool for ensuring high professional standards. In an era of regulation and tightening control, there is a growing professional need to take stock and reflect on what it means to work with human problems. It is vital that therapists address the moral and philosophical dimensions of their profession and ask themselves what it is to be human.This rich and far-reaching book explores supervision from this timely philosophical perspective. Designed both for trainees and more seasoned professionals, whatever their theoretical orientation, it makes a clear case for seeing existential perspectives on supervision as complementary to, rather than as a substitute for, other forms of supervision.>
List of contents
Preface
Setting the Scene: Philosophical Parameters for Existential Supervision; E.Van Deurzen & S.Young
PART I: PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS OF EXISTENTIAL SUPERVISION
Virtue in Supervision: Aristotle; A.Macaro
Deliberations on Supervision: Kierkegaard; L.Moja
Strasser Phenomenology and Supervision: Husserl; M.Adams
The Supervisory Relationship: Buber, Levinas and Rogers; L.Barnet
Existential Sexuality and Embodiment: Merleau-Ponty; P.Smith-Pickard
PART II: EXISTENTIAL SUPERVISION IN PRACTICE
Aims of Supervision; E.Van Deurzen
Online Group Supervision; S.Lee
The World of Addiction; S.du Plock
Working with Young Offenders; K.Weixel Dixon
Existential Supervision in the NHS; D.Tantum & B.Kumar
PART III: QUESTIONING AND DEVELOPING EXISTENTIAL SUPERVISION
Supervision As We Know It; M.Milton
Responsibility in Existential Supervision; D.Mitchell
Givens of Supervision: A Cross-Theoretical Framework; A.Strasser
Evocative Supervision: A Non-Clinical Approach; G.Madison
The Future of Existential Supervision; E.Van Deurzen & S.Young
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About the author
EMMY VAN DEURZEN is Director of the New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling and Founder of Regents College School of Psychotherapy and Counselling, UK. She is Professor of Psychotherapy at Schiller International University, Honorary Professor at University of Sheffield and also Visiting Professor at Middlesex University. Her publications include Existential Psychotherapy and Counselling in Practice 2e, Existential Perspectives on Human Issues (co-edited) and Psychotherapy and the Quest for Happiness.
SARAH YOUNG is an existential psychotherapist and counselling psychologist. She has been teaching on counselling and psychology courses for nearly twenty years and also works in private practice as a psychotherapist, supervisor and counsellor. She has contributed chapters to many books, including Introduction to Counselling and Psychotherapy, Existential Perspectives on Human Issues and When Death Enters the Therapeutic Space.
