Family Therapy and Systemic Supervision (ref. M21)
This course is designed for qualified systemic family psychotherapists to train as systemic supervisors.
Who is this course for?
• You must have successfully completed a qualifying systemic/family therapy course.
• You must be registered or be eligible to register as a psychotherapist with the UKCP.
• You need a commitment that you are able to live supervise in your agency during the year – an individual for three months, and concurrently a group for the whole year.
Aims
• To train systemic supervisors in live and retrospective supervision.
• To enable trainee supervisors to elaborate theoretical underpinnings for their supervisory practice.
• To develop a range of supervisory skills and methods, including live supervision, tape review, use of reflecting processes, working with personal resonances.
• To explore personal-professional aspects in order to develop self-reflexive supervisory practice.
• To undertake live supervision in their agency throughout the year.
• To enable observation of experienced supervisors at work.
• To take into account the wider societal context and cultural diversity, to work with differences of racialised identities, gender, class, sexual orientation, ethnicity and ability.
Content/Teaching components
Key elements
Supervision of agency supervision
Each course participant is required to negotiate a contract to provide live supervision to an individual for a minimum of 10 sessions, and a group throughout the year, in their work place, or another setting.
This requires the backing of their agency and line manager.
These will usually be professionals who have taken an introductory or intermediate systems/family therapy course and are in the advanced part of their systemic/family therapy training.
This supervision is supervised through videotape review in a small group.
Course participants will be paired to give feedback and observe each other's supervision groups.
Supervision of peer supervision
Course participants will supervise each other, which will include personal professional development, in the presence of the supervisor of supervision, to enable feedback from different perspectives.
Theoretical seminars
Course participants will examine the literature on supervision of family therapy, research on supervision, and current debates in the field, and consider how these may be incorporated into supervision.
It will explore issues of consulting and supervising across theoretical orientation.
The course aims to enable course participants to take into account the wider societal context and cultural diversity, and to work with differences of 'race', gender, class, sexual orientation, ethnicity and ability.
Observation of live supervision
Course participants will have the opportunity to observe live supervision of qualifying family therapists at the Tavistock Centre, and to interview supervisors about the supervision process.
Other opportunities to observe live supervision will also be negotiated.
Assessment
By course papers, self-report and supervisors' reports, and viva.
Course participants will compile a portfolio of learning throughout the year, including feedback from peers and supervisees.
Closing date
26 June 2010
Professional accreditation
Leads to the award of the Tavistock Qualification in Family Therapy Supervision.
Subject to the course’s successful reaccreditation by the Association for Family Therapy, graduates will also eligible for recognition as an accredited Supervisor by the Association for Family Therapy.
Time commitment
One year, part-time.
Teaching is in 2 day blocks / month.
Participants need to supervise weekly in their agency throughout the training and to visit their peers.
