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Keeping the family in focus: Doing and reflecting in supervision groups
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ABSTRACT
This chapter explores supervisor and supervisees, and describes some aspects of the learning process in a qualifying-level systemic psychotherapy training group. The therapists' supervision group comprised four trainees from different professional and cultural backgrounds all of whom were established practitioners in their work setting. In the early stages of a supervision group, trainees may be more worried about their relationship with the team behind the screen, and the team's views of the trainee as therapist, than with the family per se. Supervision groups are unique forums on a systemic psychotherapy qualifying course, in as much as they are also work groups. It is therefore very important to capitalize on this aspect of them as a resource for learning. In our experience, the relationships with the different families and the engagement in the clinical work are central to developing confidence and relationships within a supervision group.