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Centre for Supervision and Team Development has been the leading training organisation for Supervision across all the helping professions since 1979. It has been running postgraduate trainings in the UK and internationally both as open programmes and as bespoke courses. It has also been involved in extensive research and publications in the field including the best selling “Supervision in the Helping Professions” 1989, 2000 and 2006 Open University Press/McGraw Hill written by two of our Tutors with contributions from the other two.
 
Supervision in the Helping Professions

3rd Edition - 2006 

By Peter Hawkins and Robin Shohet.  Published by Open University Press.

This book, on which much of the material for our courses is based, explores the purposes, models and different forms of supervision in the helping and people professions. The first edition (1989) was described as a 'ground-breaking' book in the development of supervision and supervisor training. The second edition came out in 2000 and the third edition in 2006.

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Being White in the Helping Professions: Developing Effective Intercultural Awareness, by Judy Ryde is published by Jessica Kingsley. 

In this book Judy Ryde explores how white people, by fully acknowledging and understanding their privileged position, may work effectively in a multicultural setting. The writing of this book brings in sociological and psychological theory but most importantly is a personal journey and one in which the reader is invited to join.
‘The book will make every analyst, psychotherapist or counsellor – indeed everyone in the helping professions – reflect on who they are as they work, far beyond what is already managed in the relational and intersubjective traditions.

Ryde has managed to bring three diverse impossibilities together into one challenging whole: citizenship, professionalism and individuation.’ Profession Andrew Samuels, Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex. Professor Samuels has a special interest in how politics and psychotherapy interface.  'In this text, based upon her doctoral research, Judy has embarked upon a serious metaphorical speleological, or diving, expedition to discover, uncover and recover the multifarious constituents of ‘whiteness’. She has dared to dive beneath the surface of that which is frequently assumed to be the ‘norm’, to be ‘opaque’, to be there but not there, to be enigmatic.’  From the foreword to this book by Colin Lago, author of many books on Race and Culture including Race, Culture and Counselling published by Open University Press.

 

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The next course we are running is: Advanced Supervision 8-10 July in Bath.  This course is full, however you can book a place today on our Core Supervision Course on 23-25 September and begin our Supervision Certificate.  The Certificate is a total of 12 training days, comprising of Core, Therapeutic and Advanced courses, plus one optional course from the others.  In addition participants are required to have 3 tutorials and their own supervision (see Supervision Certificate page for more details).
There are still places available for the Core Course and our optional courses in November 2009.
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