ABSTRACT
This chapter describes supervision within a team model in which the whole team usually remains in the room with the family and, often, the referring person(s) and family friends. The method involves an active, flowing process and the development of metaphors and enactments that are often surrealistic in nature, at times becoming a “theatre of the absurd.” The general idea is to explicate and validate all opinions within the system, including those of the extended family, referring persons and other helping professionals, and to integrate these views into a composite whole from which the family can then make a choice without being unduly triangulated. Use of this model in training is discussed as it applies to (a) 170inexperienced trainees as team members, (b) inexperienced clinicians as “identified” therapists to the family, and (c) experienced family therapists who have no prior experience with the model. It is proposed that this form of multi-faceted supervision can be utilized as a primary mode for training beginning family therapists.
