The Contemporary Relational Supervisor is
an empirically based, academically sophisticated, and
learner-friendly book on the cutting edge of couple and
family therapy supervision. Appropriate for master’s and
doctoral level students, as well as experienced
clinicians who wish to learn about supervision, it
emphasizes system and relational thinking and
intervention, while privileging the diversity of
training system members, their realities, experiences,
and interpretations of life. The authors are attuned
throughout the text to how and where clinical training
and services are provided, and to whom, and provide
detailed literature reviews for readers. These factors
assist their discussion of the socio-historic
development of the AAMFT supervision designation, and
the fundamentals, contexts, philosophy, relationships,
and pragmatics of CFT supervision. They also
discuss major models and approaches, evaluation, ethical
and legal issues, and therapist development. Perhaps
most important is their presentation of methods that
help tailor and extend supervision practices to meet the
clinical, institutional, and economic realities
that CF therapists navigate. Readers are engaged
by the discussions and exercises at the end of each
chapter, which help them to feel more grounded in a
topic, to have their own voices heard, and to be granted
insight through experiencing multiple realities. This
valuable reference prepares the next wave of
cutting-edge CFT supervisors–those who are
knowledgeable, skilled, and realistically
confident.
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