ABSTRACT
Supervision is one of many interfaces for the personal, professional and political to emerge within clinical psychology. A great deal of literature focuses on fostering skills in the role of supervising others, with some passing comment on how to create the conditions in which personal and professional development can blossom and individuals can thrive. This chapter flips this literature on its head, and instead invites you to consider your emerging identity as a supervisee. It questions what it means to become a supervisee and explores a range of ideas, tools and techniques (e.g., cultural and supervisory genograms), that can help individuals to use supervision in a way that is most meaningful to them – and aligned to improving the lives of the people they meet in clinical practice. Through exploring different types of reflective-practice questions, this chapter invites the reader to develop their own playful, yet serious, approach to supervisory practice. In doing so, it reminds readers of their own rights to safe, containing and supportive supervision, and illustrates the potential of supervision through a range of personal accounts. This chapter invites you to invest in your personal and professional development through reflective-practice, self-reflexivity, relationships, identity and politics.
