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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.  ISBN 0-335-21817-2

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Ethical Maturity in the Helping Professions facilitated by Michael Carroll 9th November

16 participants from BCG and CSTD attended the post-graduate training day. There was a good balance of slides, handouts, dialogue and exercises from Michael.

We find write-ups of workshops helpful so would be happy to post, on our website, write-ups/and/or observations from other participants on the Ethical Maturity workshop.
 
We are planning to put on further postgraduate workshops including Michael’s offering this workshop again and would like to hear from you about your interest in this topic and other topics you would like to see met in this way. (See the Institute section for further details of this workshop).

Please contact Robin on 01309-691383 or This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it   as the contact person for these events

The following is the introduction to a talk given at the Marianne Fry lectures by Judy Ryde (http://www.mariannefrylectures.co.uk/).  Click here.  If you would like the full paper to be sent to you please contact Alison at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .



 

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The next course we are running is our Therapeutic Course 10-12 February 2010 in London.  Book today 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).
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