ABSTRACT
Diffi culties are common and inevitable in supervision and can be stressful and worrying for both the supervisee and supervisor. Some situations which challenge supervisors involve fi nding a balance between confl icting ethical principles. Others require a supervisor to address problematic aspects of a supervisee’s practice and to move from a benignly supportive role to a more challenging one. Nowhere is a relational approach to supervision more important than when such clinical and ethical challenges arise. This chapter shows how a CAT-based understanding of the relational processes of supervision can help supervisors and therapists fi nd a way through ethical and clinical diffi culties.
