Supervision

Positive supervision plays a pivotal role in the professional development and mental health of social workers, psychologists, counsellors, managers, health practitioners, life coaches and other human service professionals.

Supervision is the revised edition of A Vision for Supervision and is a fantastic tool for supporting strengths-based, solution-focused approaches to supervision.

These 30 cards, arranged in three colour-coded suits, provide 90 strengths-based questions that can help set expectations when establishing a supervision relationship and expand the scope of existing ones.

Use these cards to:

• Create a supervision plan and prepare for sessions.
• Explore values, priorities and practice stories.
• Train supervisors and guide students.
• De-brief, find solutions and help prevent burn out.

Supervision can provide a powerful opportunity for discovery and learning for both supervisor and practitioner and create a culture of best practice that flows on to clients.

• 30 full-colour cards (120mm x 105mm) in a sturdy folio box

BONUS: Free access to the Supervision Digital Toolbox

• Digital version of the cards and a digital booklet full of ideas for using the cards
• Extra support resources including ideas bank, card hacks and blogs

To use the digital toolbox, simply create a customer account. All digital products follow our Digital Usage Policy – see Copyright and Digital Usage for details.

• Setting the scene: Give the 10 cards in the first suit—setting the scene—to a new supervisee before you first meeting. Use the cards to guide the development of a supervision plan, expectations, and guidelines for future meetings.
• For the supervisor: Which cards represent topics you tend to emphasise or give a lot of time to in supervision? Which topics don’t seem to come up in your supervision experience? Reflecting on your own experience as a supervisor so far, which cards represent an area of supervision in which you feel you have been most or least useful to the practitioner?
• When a session is ‘stuck’: Which of these cards do you think would be most useful to us at this stage of our conversation? Is there a particular card that addresses an issue you have been grappling with?

For more inspiration, explore our Ideas Bank.