ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the importance of putting group-relational reflexivity on the agenda and keeping it there, in therapists' therapeutic work with families. Teams who are polarized or cannot speak about critical differences will not find it easy to be helpful to the families who are consulting them, and indeed may be hazardous for them. Family therapy clinics within child and adolescent mental health services or other settings are often run as live supervision groups with members taking it in turn to be the therapist and the rest of the group provides supervision with or without a designated lead supervisor. Much of the complexity in live group supervision involves the number of levels of interactions to be kept in mind. Keeping the family's clinical interests at heart of the matter involves finding ways to keep an eye on the impact of the family on the therapist and the group, and vice versa, the impact of the supervision group on the family.
