What does supervision mean in the context of one to one practitioner hours? In the interests of both clients and practitioners, most professional bodies for any one to one consultation spiritual counselling, healing and other complementary efforts require members to incorporate supervision into their practice.
What is Supervision?
Working under supervision means that a practitioner uses the services of another practitioner or to review their work with clients, their professional development, and often their personal development
Supervision is a professional service, rather than a managerial role, and for spiritual counsellors who work in teams, organizations and have one to one alone time with clients,
supervision and management will normally be entirely separate. The supervisor acts not as a 'boss', but as a consultant.
Who Needs Supervision?
In the view of professionals across the board, all spiritual therapists, one to one workers, counsellors, psychotherapists, reflexologist, and many other one to one consultants regardless of experience, need supervision. Not only do most professional bodies require supervision, but it is also seen by many as an ethical imperative.
A client who encounters a therapist practitioner complementary or mainstream working without supervision should probably consider carefully whether they wish to work with that therapist. (Having said that, it should also be recognized that significant cross-cultural differences in views on supervision exist: many practitioners in the US, for instance, are not supervised.)
Why is Supervision Needed?
Supervision exists for two reasons:
1. to protect clients, and
2. to improve the professional practice of practitioners to provide value to their clients.
Supervision protects clients by involving an impartial third party in the work of a counsellor and client, helping to reduce the risk of serious oversight and helping the counsellor concerned to reflect on their own feelings, thoughts, behavior and general approach with the client.
"These opportunities to reflect on how they relate to the client, as well as to gain an insight from the perspective of another therapist, also help the counsellor to improve the value they are providing to their clients. In this respect, supervision is somewhat analogous to peer review in the publishing process: few professional scientists would expect to be able to publish their results without peer review, and the quality of the scientific literature is undoubtedly better than it would be without the positive influence of the peer review process"
What Does Supervision Mean for Confidentiality?
The practice of supervision means that many details provided by clients are shared with people other than the counsellor concerned. However, overall client confidentiality is still safeguarded because:
1. individually identifying information (such as full name) is not revealed, and
2. information shared in supervision is itself protected under a contract of confidentiality and normally may not be shared outside the supervision relationship.
In other words, while some client details are shared within the supervision relationship, these are not traceable back to the specific individual client, and they do not normally pass beyond the supervision relationship. (It is possible that a supervisor might bring a supervisee's client information to their own supervisor, if for some reason they are struggling with the supervisee.)
All Supervision hours conducted by Universal Learning are kept at a professional and confidential level - A minimum exchange will be in place to have 1 hours Supervision every 10 Client Hours - All donations for supervision is generated back into server, training, community and volunteer practice. To discuss being in the Supervision network with Universal Learning contact Gaynor Linnecor who has pragmatically bridging mainstreams of education and the complementary learning field for 30 years.
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