Effective Supervision for the Helping Professions

Michael Carroll, Ph.D. is a Chartered Counselling Psychologist. He is an accredited Executive Coach and an accredited Supervisor of Executive Coaches with APECS (Association for Professional Executive Coaches and Supervisors).    Michael is Visiting Industrial Professor in the Graduate School of Education, University of Bristol and the winner of the 2001 British Psychological Society Award for Distinguished Contributions to Professional Psychology.  Michael works with individuals, teams and organizations specializing in the theme of learning and wellbeing.  He supervises, coaches and trains nationally and internationally and works within the private and public spheres. He runs the Centre for Supervision Training. He has trained in,  written about and  researched  supervision for over  30 years, both supervising and being supervised.  He has written, co-written and edited 10 book including the following   Training Counselling Supervisors:  Strategies, Methods, Techniques (Edited with Elizabeth Holloway, Sage:1999); Counselling Supervision in Context (Edited with Elizabeth Holloway:  Sage:  1999), The Handbook of Counselling in Organisations (Edited with Michael Walton:  Sage, 1997), Counselling Supervision:  Theory, Skills and Practice (Sage, 1996); Workplace Counselling (Sage, 1996).

• PrefaceWhat is Supervision?Voice, Identity and Power in SupervisionManaging the Supervisory ProcessForming the Supervisory RelationshipRestorative Supervision: Supporting the SuperviseeEthics and Professional Practice in SupervisionThe Role of the Organisation in SupervisionLearning from SupervisionReflection and Critical Reflection in SupervisionThe Six Levels of ReflectionThe Storytelling Brain and SupervisionEpilogueAppendix 1:The Supervisory Journey: A MemoirReferences