Family Therapy Supervision in Extraordinary Settings

Illustrations of Systemic Approaches in Everyday Clinical Work

Laurie L. Charles, Thorana S. Nelson

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN: 9781138480384
• eBook ISBN: 9781351063005
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Mental Health in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

Family Therapy Supervision in Extraordinary Settings showcases the dynamism of systemic family therapy supervision/consultation as it expands beyond typical and historical traditions. In this unique collection, contributors write about their innovations, unexpected learnings, and "perfect accidents" in the context of systemic therapy. These essays highlight creative approaches to supervision, present a wide variety of clinical cases and therapy settings, and demonstrate how training takes place in real time.

Each chapter illustrates increasingly diverse settings in which systemic family therapy services are delivered, whether in public mental health care for families across high-, low-, and middle-income countries, in areas of armed conflict or instability due to political violence or war, or stable, liberal democracies with robust public mental health systems. Each setting of supervision is extraordinary in the way it supports family therapy service delivery. Given the wide variation in access to systemic family therapy services, and the diverse settings in which systemic family therapy services are delivered, a set of brief, specific, and lively cases is called for that focus on the dynamic nature of a family therapy supervision and consultation interaction and its influence on clients, trainees, and supervisors.

Working as a family therapist in the world today, an era of global mental health, is as full of wonder and challenge as it was in the time family therapy originated as a profession. It is thus no accident that supervision and consultation work is just as extraordinary. This book will be essential reading for family therapy and counseling supervisors, as well as a helpful reference for supervisees.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Contributors
• Preface
• 1 En Defensa de Spanglish Family Therapy Supervision in the Era of English
• 2 From Crime and Punishment to Empathy and Acceptance: Family Therapy Training and Supervision with Turkish Juvenile Probation Officers
• 3 A Strengths-Based Team Approach to Holistic Wellness: Using Live Supervision to Expand the Boundaries of Traditional Mental Health
• 4 Immediate, Intense Changes: Setting Up and Conducting Supervision Across Conflict-Affected Regions of Sri Lanka
• 5 Seven Chairs Under a Mango Tree: Stories of Peer Support and Supervision from Sri Lanka
• 6 Responsive Supervision: Playing with Risk-Taking and Hyperlinked Identities
• 7 Where is my Supervisee?: A Supervisor’s Dilemma
• 8 Tender is the Heart: Supervising High Impact Emotions During Sex Therapy
• 9 Supervision in Schools: Learning to Hear Many Voices
• 10 Evaluating Single-Session/Walk-in Training with the Leeds Alliance in Supervision Scale
• 11 Where Do I Even Begin?
• 12 Listening to Wounded Souls and Silent Voices: Self-Supervision in My Work with Family Members of Missing Persons in Kosovo
• 13 Challenges in Supervision in Family-Oriented Approaches in Prishtina, Kosova: Meta-Talk, Peer Support, and Co-Supervision as Partial Solutions
• 14 My Global Team of Family Therapy Consultants: Seven Commandments of My Method
• 15 A Forward-Looking Approach to Supervision of Family Therapy and Psychosocial Support in Public Mental Health in Lebanon
• 16 Embodied Conversations: Partnering with Horses in Clinical Supervision
• 17 Supervision Reflections from a Non-Western Family Therapist in an Integrated Primary Healthcare Setting
• Index