ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the question of how live supervision might aid the development of reflective practice. Live supervision is widely used in counsellor education, marriage and family therapy, social work, community college, and genetic counselling training programmes in the USA. In the context of live supervision in mental health settings, the use of various technologies such as a 'bug in the ear', live video feedback or telephone callings along with a one-way screen have been adopted. Live consultations during the work have varied from the supervisor knocking on the door, phoning in or the worker exiting at a prearranged time. Interpersonal process recall (IPR) is a method devised by Norman Kagan that arose out of the development of widely available video in the 1960s. Universities invested in this technology and he decided to make recordings of visiting lecturers. It involves supervisees in making a recording of their work which is then brought to supervision.
