ABSTRACT
As in the chapter by Chris Powell, Humphreys writes from the position of a senior staff member acting as facilitator in the staff group within his own organisation. In this case the group is already well established, and Humphreys shares his thoughts and his interventions relating to two detailed examples, illustrating several aspects of the facilitator's role discussed in Chapter 5. He shows the importance of maintaining a sense of safety in helping the group to get on with its task of understanding, illustrates the appropriate use of self-disclosure, comments on parallel process between the staff and patient groups, and introduces some theory about the impact of working with victims of sexual abuse. This chapter illustrates the ¯exibility of staff support groups, described in Chapter 1, to meet a number of different needs.
