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Authorities, ambiguities and ambivalence in professional supervision
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Reflect and learn from your ‘supervision history’ and become clearer about what you value in this relationship and how to make it work better for you.
Focus on the authorities of the supervisor will provide a context for a review of frameworks by writers including Reynolds, Gardiner and Hawkins and Shohet which offer ways of considering the supervision relationship over time and through transitional developmental stages. Workshop activities will include the development of profiles of ‘Essential’ and ‘Disastrous’ aspects, characteristics and qualities of professional supervision – based on the reflections of the conference participants. The workshop will be designed to provoke participants’ thinking about their ‘supervision history’ – and its influence on their current assumptions about, attitudes towards and experiences of and in supervision. There will be program of some formal input and a mix of paired conversations and whole group discussions around the nature of different models of supervision and the implications for authorities, ambiguities and ambivalence in supervision. There will be a hard-copy summary presentation for participants. Podcast: Listen to Mike and Clare talk about this session pre-kon gres (10 mins) >> |
Professional supervision refers to a significant working relationship with a number of different rhythms (daily, ‘regularly’ and annually?) The workshop will include a review of current models of practice supervision to highlight the implications of clinical and professional supervision for a consideration of the purposes and stakeholders identified in each of the models.
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Brenda and Mike have just returned from a trip around the world – taking in old friends and new experiences. As migrants to Australia from England they return regularly to maintain their important with important people. As part of the trip, Brenda spent time in Norway while Mike went to Ireland to follow up his family history – which he has now traced back to the famine. In Canada we crossed the Rockies in style before exploring British Columbia with our son and his wife, who live in Vancouver. The picture (left) reflects the wonders of mountains, water and sky that the Rockies offer. Typically, we mixed work and pleasure, ending our trip with a conference on residential care.
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Brenda and Mike Clare
Mike Clare was Professor of Social Work and Social Policy at UWA until 2010. He trained and worked as a primary and secondary school teacher for five years before studying Sociology at Sussex University. Subsequently, he studied Social Work at Sussex and worked as a social worker before being appointed as a Lecturer on the Social Work programme at Sussex – including five years as Course Director between 1980 and 1985 when he began his interest in professional supervision of practitioners and students. Mike and Brenda emigrated to Perth with their family in 1987; Mike took up a Lectureship in Social Work and Social Administration at UWA. Mike was Head of Department for 10 years working with colleagues in a range of local and inter-state agencies on research and consultancy projects – including professional.
Brenda Clare
Brenda qualified as a social worker in 1974, and worked for over twenty years as a practitioner and manager in England and Australia, specialising in child protection. She began teaching social work in 2001 after completing her PhD. A core research and practice interest is the role good supervision plays in enhancing professional resilience and expertise. Having decided to change the life work balance a little, Brenda no longer teaches full-time; instead she concentrates on her work with professionals in the field. She gets great satisfaction from observing practitioners’ increased confidence and self-trust as they connect with their professional identity, explore and extend their practice, and ‘find words’ to communicate their practice wisdom.
For many years, Mike and Brenda have provided workshops on professional supervision to multi-disciplinary groups of practitioners and managers in government and non-government agencies in Western Australia. Their research interests are in the areas of child protection, out of home care, family-based practice and elder abuse.
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