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Clinical supervision

 Demonstrate understanding of clinical supervision (versus management supervision, child protection supervision etc.)
 Contextualise the essay
 Refer to the literature – inc. primary sources & sources relevant to your work area
 Guide the reader – logical order, News at 10 approach, contents page . . .
 Follow presentation guidelines

1. Develop

 Describe the process of implementation (from scratch)
 Make this REAL & CONCRETE
 You then need to discuss helping and hindering factors
 Better essays begin to problem solve some of the hindering factors and show how to maximise helpful factors
2. Manage
 A brief discussion of your existing system is helpful
 Then focus on those aspects which merit review on the basis of what you have learned during the module
 You will then move on to consider practical implementation of the change(s)
 You then need to discuss helping and hindering factors
 Better essays begin to problem solve some of the hindering factors and show how to maximise helpful factors
Three parts to this question –
1. Demonstrate understanding of what Bishop is suggesting
2. Discuss your own views on this – is it accurate? What are the implications of having/not having a managerial commitment
3. Describe how you’ll gain commitment. NB link this, practically, to your current setting and your current role/power base within it.

Cutcliffe, J E & Proctor, B (1998) suggest that “clinical supervision is
a specific skill. While some of the interpersonal skills used in clinical
supervision are transferable from nurse or counselling training, clinical
supervision goes beyond basic interpersonal skills and has its own set
of unique skills”. (p. 281) Discuss.

4. Read Cutcliffe and Proctor!
5. Debate whether supervision is separate or merely an amalgam of skills
6. Compare supervision skills with the skills used in YOUR work (these may differ from those of your peers on the course!)
7. Find a framework to justify your choice of “skills”
8. Consider the implications of your viewpoint

Books

Bishop, V. (2006). Clinical supervision in practice. Palgrave Macmillan
Proctor, Brigid, \’Supervision: A Co-Operative Exercise in Accountability\’
Scan of a chapter from: Marken, Mary and Payne, Malcolm (eds.), Enabling and Ensuring: Supervision in Practice, (1987),
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