Cultivate self-awareness, empathy, and clinical competence in the
mental health professionals you supervise
Providing tested guidance for clinical supervisors of mental health
professionals, editors Roy A. Bean, Sean D. Davis, and Maureen P. Davey
draw from their own backgrounds in training, private practice, and
academe, as well as from an international panel of experts representing
various mental health fields to provide activities and best practices
that allow therapists to better serve an increasingly diverse set of
clients and issues.
While clinical skills are easily observed, the more subtle areas of
self-awareness, or exploring unexamined judgments are more difficult to
spot and to provide supervision and guidance for. The numerous
experiential activities included will help supervisors and the mental
health professional they supervise develop their skills and techniques
around:
- Intuition
- Empathy
- Self-awareness
- Mindfulness
- Multicultural awareness
- Perspective taking
The book covers both clinical as well as diversity-focused competence
and awareness, and suggests various forms of activities, including
research exercises, reflection, journaling, and more. Each activity
includes measurement metrics as well as additional resources that help
clinicians identify the best activity for a given situation. Appropriate
for clinicians at every level and from a multitude of backgrounds, these
tried and tested best practices can be used in clinical supervision, as
a class assignment, or to facilitate professional growth.
