ABSTRACT
This chapter describes a range of supervisory experiences subsequent to many years of both participating in and mostly providing supervision, in a range of contexts, modalities and for a variety of purposes. Within clinical psychology, supervision is considered to be an essential element of clinical practice through which theory and research become woven into practice, subsequently developing the skills a psychologist possesses and improving their practice. Models of supervision tend to be specific to the model of therapy being practised; with the same theoretical framework and principles underlying the therapy being applied to guide supervision. If supervision is about increasing therapist effectiveness, and therapist effectiveness is about creating the conditions that make whatever it is that brings about therapeutic change more likely to happen, then knowing how that change occurs seems essential. Conflict is also well evidenced within the psychological literature, incorporating terms such as incompatible goals and dilemmas.
