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Faculty of Education
Conference "Professional Supervision: Common threads, different patterns" 2010
In-depth reflection: a requirement for safe practice or doing your head in?
Keynote address: Meg Bond (UK)
Towards an ethical code of practice for professional supervision in the non-counselling professions.
This keynote address considers the nature of a supervisee's in-depth reflection, emerging issues around self-disclosure and the ethics of setting out to facilitate in-depth reflection and proposes a code of practice regarding professional supervision in the non-counselling professions.
Exploration of in-depth reflection will take into account intuitive and emotional skills as well as the logical approach that many models of reflection offer. The necessity for such an approach will be argued as essential for the effective professional supervision of professionals who work face-to-face with people in distress.
This expectation of in-depth reflection throws up issues around:
- self-disclosure, such as the dilemmas experienced by the supervisee in regulating their level of self-disclosure
- the skills required of the supervisor to enable in-depth reflection
- the need for the organisational setting of professional supervision to create a safe enough environment for the supervisee to feel able to reflect in-depth.
The speaker will explore the ethics of setting out to facilitate such self-disclosure in professional supervision, with particular reference to professions such as nursing in which neither 'therapeutic use of self' nor backup personal therapy are usually contractual requirements. Hence the possible value and limitations of a code of practice for professional supervision will be explored.
