Evaluates the practical and theoretical issues involved in implementing effective supervisory training within a family therapy practice. The authors outline the UKCP requirements for supervision as interpreted through the Association of Family Therapy Guidelines, and provide an overview of a course designed to cover these requirements, including models of theory, structures for setting up supervised practice at work and a description of new models of therapy which have affected the process of supervision. It examines the relationship between supervisor and trainee in terms of power, gender, ethnicity and sexuality, and how to deal with these issues.