This is a comprehensive, interdisciplinary text on clinical supervision. Due to the overlap of the mental health disciplines and of supervision modalities, the authors have integrated psychology, counseling, marriage and family therapy, and social work contributions into the central themes that dominate the study and practice of clinical supervision.
This text does not adhere to any single approach to supervision but reviews all leading models and interventions, offering informed appraisals of each.
Bernard and Goodyear offer a comprehensive look at the supervision relationship that must develop if supervision is to be successful. In doing so, the text serves as a valuable resource for the scholar as well as the practitioner.
Finally, the authors also address the professional issues of ethical and legal concerns, evaluation, and establishing a productive context for supervision; the practice issues of supervisor training and development; and the research issues affecting both the study and practice of supervision.
Appendices offer additional resources. These include materials to assist the readers in training supervisors. They also include selected instruments that might be used by supervision researchers and practitioners.