Family Therapy and Systemic Supervision (ref. M21)
This course is designed for qualified systemic family psychotherapists to train as systemic supervisors. All course participants need to be able to supervise an individual in their agency for a minimum of 10 sessions, and supervise a group in their agency throughout the entire year.
Who is this course for?
Qualified family systemic therapists who want to train and qualify as supervisors. On the course, they receive supervision of their supervision in their agencies, thus providing CPD for other professionals as well as focusing on clients and users' needs.
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.
Applications for September 2012 intake.
We are currently considering applications for our September 2012 intake. Interviews will take place in the spring term, 2012
Professional accreditation
Leads to the award of the Tavistock Qualification in Family Therapy Supervision.
The course is accredited by the Association for Family Therapy. Graduates are eligible for recognition as an accredited Supervisor by AFT. The AFT accrediting panel commended the course for providing a multilayered reflection process, an integration of self and relational reflexivity, a strong theoretical base with a rich, up to date and interesting reading list, and a staff group of very experienced trainers. Students comment very positively on the commitment and availability of staff and their support of their learning
Time commitment
One year, part-time.
Teaching is monthly, Mondays and Tuesday, 9.30-5.00.
Participants need to supervise weekly in their agency throughout the training and to visit their peers.
Staff
Charlotte Burck
Dr Charlotte Burck is a Consultant Systemic Psychotherapist, trainer and researcher. She has been a trainer on the supervision course since she, David Campbell and Caroline Lindsey first designed the programme in the 1990s and is the Organising Tutor. She has been a clinical supervisor on several qualifying courses for systemic psychotherapists, and has a keen interest in consultation. She co-runs the Doctorate in Systemic Psychotherapy, a research programme for qualified systemic psychotherapists, and is the co-director of the Family Therapy and Systemic Research Centre (Tavistock-University of East London), which aims to map research for the systemic field and build research networks.
Publications include:
Burck, Charlotte & Daniel, Gwyn (eds) (2010) Mirrors and Reflections: Processes of Systemic Supervision (London, Karnac).
Burck, Charlotte (2010) 'From Hazardous To Collaborative Learning: Thinking Systemically About Live Supervision Group Processes' in C. Burck & G. Daniel (eds) Mirrors and Reflections: Processes of Systemic Supervision (London, Karnac)
Burck, Charlotte & Campbell, David (2002) Training Systemic Supervisors: Multi-layered Learning in D. Campbell & B. Mason (eds) Perspectives on Supervision (London: Karnac)
Burck, C. & Daniel, G. (1995) Training and supervision: addressing the context of gender. in: Gender and family therapy. London, Karnac. p119-127.
Gwyn Daniel
Gwyn Daniel is a systemic psychotherapist, trainer and clinical supervisor at the Tavistock Clinic and in independent practice in Oxford. She has been a clinical supervisor on qualifying level trainings in Systemic Psychotherapy for the past twenty years, including the Institute of Family Therapy (where she initiated training in systemic supervision), the Oxford Family Institute and the Tavistock Clinic. She has also supervised and consulted to professionals and teams working in a wide range of health and social care contexts. She has taught on aspects of Systemic Supervision in the UK and Internationally
Publications include:
Daniel, Gwyn (forthcoming) Passions and Positions; selfhood and supervision in C Burck, S Barratt and E Kavner (eds) Positions and Polarities in Contemporary Systemic Practice: The Legacy of David Campbell (London, Karnac).
Co-editor with Charlotte Burck (2010) Mirrors and Reflections: Processes of Systemic Supervision (London, Karnac).
Daniel, Gwyn, Clarke, Grania & Nath, Reena (2010) Times present past and future; revisiting a supervision group experience in C. Burck & G. Daniel (eds) Mirrors and Reflections: Processes of Systemic Supervision (London, Karnac)
Daniel, Gwyn, Eyres, Maria, Majid, Sarah and Adrew Williams, Andrew (2010) Supervision across a theoretical divide: Systemic ideas in action in C. Burck & G. Daniel (eds) Mirrors and Reflections: Processes of Systemic Supervision (London, Karnac)
Sara Barratt
Sara Barratt is a systemic psychotherapist, trainer and supervisor at the Tavistock Clinic and team leader of the fostering, adoption and kinship care team. She was previously Training Director at the Institute of Family Therapy. She has been a clinical supervisor on a number of qualifying courses in systemic psychotherapy and has been part of the teaching group on the Tavistock systemic supervision training since 2003. Alongside consultation to different professional groups and work in General Practice she also consults to social care teams where she has set up and supervised multi family groups in the context of family assessment.
Publications include:
Barratt, Sara, Camhi, Claudia , Dutta, Sumita, Ingassia, Anto & Larrington, Guy (2010) Keeping the family in focus: doing and reflecting in supervision groups in C. Burck & G. Daniel (eds) Mirrors and Reflections: Processes of Systemic Supervision (London, Karnac)
Barratt, Sara (2009) Through a glass darkly: Reflecting on supervision. Context (103). pp. 30-32.
Barratt, Sara (2005) Supervision and general practice: towards a reflecting position. In J.Launer, S. Blake, D. Daws. (eds) Reflecting on reality: psychotherapists at work in primary care. (London: Karnac)
Karen Partridge
Dr Karen Partridge is a Clinical Psychologist and Systemic Psychotherapist working at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust. She has a PhD in Clinical Psychology investigating organisational change in hospitals in which she explored the effect of staff training and organisational interventions from an ecological and systemic perspective. She is interested in supervision, consultation and training in organisations and staff groups and in the interface between therapy, organisational and community interventions and action research. Her clinical work takes place in child and adolescent mental health, autism and adult mental health. She teaches on a number of Tavistock courses and is currently involved in a project to develop and manualise systemic treatment for parents in high conflict.
Publications include:
Partridge, K. (2010) Systemic Supervision in Agency Contexts: An Evolving Conversation with Clinical Psychologists in a Mental Health Trust. in Charlotte Burck and Gwyn Daniel, Processes in Systemic Supervision, London:Karnac, pp. 309-335.
Partridge, K. A Bundle of Treasures for a Wandering Therapist: An exploration of personal and professional resources to sustain a therapist on a systemic journey. Context. The Magazine for Family Therapy and Systemic Practice in the UK, December 2010, pp. 26-29
Partridge, K. , McCarry, N., Kelly, A., Ruse, E. and Holmes, J. (2009) Externalising inner conversation in supervision and in therapy through “I” and “You” dialogical writing. Context : The Magazine for Family Therapy and Systemic practice in the UK, 103, pp. 2- 7.
Partridge K. (2007) The Positioning Compass: A Tool to facilitate Reflexive Positioning. Human Systems: The Journal of Systemic Consultation and Management, 18, 96-111.
Laura Glendinning
