There is no question that as a trainee I feel that some of the relationships I have had with supervisors have suffered from a degree of falseness because of the "real" power my supervisors have. But then that relationship isn't purely "supervisory", it isn't purely supportive. A part of it is about one person being a gatekeeper who has influence over whether the other gets through the gate or not.
Isn't "real" supervision meant to be about support, advice and perspective. About learning from someone who may have been there before and may have advice to impart, who you can check your thoughts ideas and feeling with. Yes that person may well be in a more powerful position (in the way that they may be more informed than you) but there is no need for that to be necessarily construed as abusive (is there?). I suppose if one was looking for a completely neutral position on supervision then the co-counselling literature may have something to offer. Also Rhodri Hannan (trainee clinical psychologist, University of Sheffield) was doing her research into supervision and its place as a forum for the discussion of sensitive material (i.e. trainee mistakes) so she may have some good literature that is tangentially relevant.
Miles
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> From: Penny Priest <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 2004/07/08 Thu PM 01:20:06 GMT
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: supervision and community psychology
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> Yes I'm sure we could all split hairs about what is real and what is perceived. But as a trainee having experienced the threat of almost exactly the scenario you suggest, Annie, I'd agree that the evaluative power of the supervisor felt pretty real to me in one particular relationship.
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> > In the context of clinical psychology training, for example, I think that
> > most trainees/ students/ would judge the evaluative power of the
> > supervisor ( if placements are failed trainees may fail the programme ) to
> > be pretty real insofar as this would lead to changed career consequences at
> > the very least.
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> > Annie
> >
> > --On 08 July 2004 05:27 -0400 Craig Newnes [log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> > >
> > >
> > > In a message dated 08/07/2004 09:31:05 GMT Standard Time,
> > > [log in to unmask] writes:
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> > > no good denying real structural/power differences
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> > >
> > >
> > > What is a "real" power difference?
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