CERTIFICATE IN SUPERVISION COURSE

What is supervision?  The word has many meanings. It means to oversee and holds some connotations of authority and a hierarchical form of learning. It is used in counselling and psychotherapy, in the medical and nursing fields, in social work, and in aspects of teaching and general care of others. It implies a code of conduct and it carries an element of protection and safety in its overall application. Holloway 1992 says that supervision provides an opportunity for the student to capture the essence of the psychotherapeutic process as it is articulated and modelled by the supervisor thus recreating it in the counselling relationship.Lambert 1980 described supervision as part of an overall training of mental health professionals that deals with modifying their actual in-therapy behaviours.

In general, supervision may be seen as either training supervision or consultative supervision. Supervision is part of the overall training and educational needs of the health professional and there are many supervision model and styles to look at.

Here at the Institute we are offering a five-day course spread over a period of five modules.

We will look at the meaning of supervision as it applies in your field of work whether you work individually or in a group setting, in psychotherapy, counselling or in the areas of social work, nursing, clinical psychology or psychiatry or indeed any of the caring professions.

Module One:           

This module will explore the philosophical concepts of supervision, what it is in relation to the work you do. We will look at the goals and outcomes of the methods used and explore how it applies to each member of the group.

Module Two:             

Here we will look at the ‘process model’ of supervision put forward by Hawkins and Shoet in their book on supervision called “Supervision in the helping profession” 1989.  This is an excellent model for mapping out where you are in the supervisory process.  You can also use this model as a Parallel process model.

Module Three:         

In this module we will look at the different tasks of supervision and specifically the gate keeping process within supervision. We will also examine the notion of the Parallel process in supervision.

Module Four:            

Here we will look at the developmental aspect of supervision.

We will look at the developmental models of Richard Erskine, Delworth, and Stoltenburg, as a guide to how we may approach the supervision process.

Module Five:           

In this module we will bring together the various strands of what we have been looking at in the previous modules, and hopefully find an integrative view of supervision which will suit your own particular style.

Tutor    :              Bob Cooke TSTA

Times   :              10.00am – 5.00pm

Venue  :              Manchester Institute for Psychotherapy

Bookable online (click the shop icon below the dates) or by card by telephoning the Institute on 0161-862 9456.

Course dates:

SUPERVISION COURSES ARE CURRENTLY RUN ONLINE ON ZOOM INCLUDING THE MAY 2021 COURSE.  

Summer 2021 (May/June) – THIS COURSE IS NOW FULL

Module 1 – Friday 7th May 2021

Module 2 – Friday 14th May 

Module 3 – Friday 21st May

Module 4 – Friday 4th June

Module 5 – Friday 11th June

Autumn 2021 (September/October) – Mondays – This course will be face to face at the Institute, subject to government guidelines

Module 1 – 13th September,

Module 2 – 20th September,

Module 3- 27th September,

Module 4 – 4th October 

Module 5 – 11th October

Cost £945 – please note that this can be paid in instalments over the 5 modules if need be)

(NON-REFUNDABLE DEPOSIT OF £150.00 

To book online – click the shop

Or you can pay by card by telephoning the Institute on 0161-862 9456.

NEW** NEW ** NEW **

We will be holding an extra Supervision course this Autumn.  This will be run online on Zoom. The dates are:

Fridays: on 1st October, 8th October, 15th October, 29th October and 5th November. 

Cost £945 – please note that this can be paid in instalments over the 5 modules if need be)

(NON-REFUNDABLE DEPOSIT OF £150.00 –

To book online click the shop

You can also pay by card by telephoning the Institute on 0161-862 9456.

Winter 2022 (January/February)- Mondays –

We anticipate this course will be face to face, subject to government guidelines

Module 1 -31st January 2022,

Module 2 – 7th February,

Module 3 – 14th February,

Module 4 – 21st February 

Module 5 – 28th February

Cost £945 – please note that this can be paid in instalments over the 5 modules if need be)

(NON-REFUNDABLE DEPOSIT OF £150.00 –

To book online click the shop

You can also pay by card by telephoning the Institute on 0161-862 9456.

Summer 2022 (May/June) – Fridays 

Module 1 – 6th May 2022,

Module 2 – 13th May,

Module 3 – 20th May,

Module 4 – 27th May,

Module 5 – 3rd June

Cost £945 – please note that this can be paid in instalments over the 5 modules if need be)

NON-REFUNDABLE DEPOSIT OF £150.00

To book online click the shop

You can also pay by card by telephoning the Institute on 0161-862 9456.