The focus of governments across Europe and the U.S. in recent years has been on an agenda for social inclusion. This is especially the case for some young people who for various reasons have become excluded from education, training and employment. This vital new guide to providing support in this changing world is ideal for those working with young people, and those who provide support and supervision to youth support workers themselves. This comprehensive resource can be used as a textbook on supervision courses, or as a professional handbook. It will help readers to understand the underlying concepts behind support and supervision and to engage with the concepts, models and techniques that determine effective day-to-day practice. In addition, the book clarifies the benefits and limitations of support and supervision by drawing on the knowledge and experience of those currently involved in youth support. The collection of writers bring a wealth of knowledge and experience from academic and practice-based backgrounds to help practitioners, their managers, the organisations for which they work, and those on a wide range of professional training courses.

Clinical supervision (CS) is emerging as the crucible in which counselors acquire knowledge and skills for the substance abuse (SA) treatment profession, providing a bridge between the classroom and the clinic. Supervision is necessary in the SA treatment field to improve client care, develop the professionalism of clinical personnel, and maintain ethical standards. Contents of this report: (1) CS and Prof¿l. Develop. of the SA Counselor: Basic info. about CS in the SA treatment field; Presents the ¿how to¿ of CS.; (2) An Implementation Guide for Admin.; Will help admin. understand the benefits and rationale behind providing CS for their program¿s SA counselors. Provides tools for making the tasks assoc. with implementing a CS system easier. Illustrations.

As a supervisor, how do you best support growth, learning and improved practice? This book is designed to equip all those in the helping professions who are starting out in supervision with the theoretical, practical and psychological base needed for effective practice. Covering everything you need to know, from how to build a trusting and respectful relationship with your supervisee, to offering effective feedback and shaping a supervision session, this book will help you support and encourage those engaged in emotionally demanding tasks. Particular attention is devoted to the ethics of supervision and reflective practice, as well as to the challenges of supervising and appraising trainees. Practical suggestions for using creative methods and working with unconscious processes, and short exercises to support learning and development are included throughout. Concise and jargon-free, this introduction to supervision is ideal for new supervisors in social and health care, early years services, psychology, coaching and therapies of all kinds, as well as students on supervision training courses.

Eighteen work group papers, several of which previously appeared in "Zero to Three," the Bulletin of the National Center for Infant Clinical Progams, are presented under four headings. Under the heading "Findings and Recommendations of ZERO TO THREE/National center for Clinical Infant Programs' Work Group on Supervision and Mentorship" are the following papers: (1) "Learning through Supervision and Mentorship To Support the Development of Infants, Toddlers and Their Families"; (2) "Overcoming Obstacles to Reflective Supervision and Mentorship"; (3) "Improving Training of Infant/Family Practitioners through Supervision and Mentorship: An Action Agenda". Under the heading "Supervision and Mentorship of Students" are: (4) "The Supervisory Relationship: Integrator, Resource and Guide" (R. S. Shanok); (5) "Individualizing Training for Early Intervention Practitioners" (C. W. Brown and E. K. Thorp); (6) "Passing on the Process: Reflections of a Supervisee and a Supervisor" (K. Bateman and E. K. Thorp); (7) "Scenes from Supervision" (J. Pekarsky); (8) "A Review of Infant/Toddler Issues in Supervision and Mentorship Based on Instruction of the Mentor Teacher Class" (J. Perry); (9) "A Clinical Approach to the Training of Supervisors: The Model of Co-Supervision" (K. D. Pruett). Under the heaing "Supervision and Mentorship of Infant/Family Practitioners" are: (10) "The Professionalization of Early Motherhood" (W. M. Schafer); (11) "Supervision as a Catalyst in the Evolution of an Integrated Infant Mental Health/Developmental Intervention Program" (B. Ivins and N. Sweet); (12) "The Professional Use of Self in Prevention" (J. Bertacchi and J. Coplon); (13) "Lay Home Visiting Programs: Strengths, Tensions, and Challenges" (M. Larner and R. Halpern); (14) "A Developmental/Relationship In-Service Training Model for Public Health Nurses Serving Multirisk Infants and Families" (S. Wieder, R. Drachman, and T. DeLeo). Under the heading "Issues for Supervisors and Program Directors" are: (15) "Supervision and the Management of Programs Serving Infants, Toddlers, and Their Families" (L. Gilkerson and C. L. Young-Holt); (16) "Management in the South Carolina Resource Mothers' Program: The Importance of Supervision" (M. A. Robinson); (17) "Toward Tenacity of Commitment: Understanding and Modifying Institutional Practices and Individual Responses that Impede Work with Multi-Problem Families" (B. Fields); and (18) "A Seminar for Supervisors in Infant/Family Programs: Growing versus Paying More for Staying the Same" (J. Bertacchi and F. M. Stott). Appendixes include a qualitative study of early intervention in Maryland and a 50-item bibliography. (SLD)

This second edition of Best Practice in Professional Supervision is a fully updated and revised guide to being an excellent supervisor in the social care, nursing, counselling and allied health professions. This field has developed rapidly in the past 10 years, and this new edition contains essential updates reflecting the very latest research and practice. The book covers basic skills, the practicalities of forming and maintaining the supervision relationship, and the organisational context and culture of supervision. Viewing supervision as a place for learning, the book also considers how supervision can help practitioners to develop professional resilience and promote their own wellbeing despite the stresses of complex work environments. It also includes specific chapters on supervision of clinical student placements, and in child protection settings. Full of clinical case vignettes illustrating good practice, this is an essential guide for all those undertaking supervision, or supervision training.

This book will change the way we understand the future of our planet. It is both alarming and hopeful. James Gustave Speth, renowned as a visionary environmentalist leader, warns that in spite of all the international negotiations and agreements of the past two decades, efforts to protect Earth's environment are not succeeding. Still, he says, the challenges are not insurmountable. He offers comprehensive, viable new strategies for dealing with environmental threats around the world. The author explains why current approaches to critical global environmental problems - climate change, biodiversity loss, deterioration of marine environments, deforestation, water shortages, and others - don't work. He offers intriguing insights into why we have been able to address domestic environmental threats with some success while largely failing at the international level. Setting forth eight specific steps to a sustainable future, Speth convincingly argues that dramatically different government and citizen action are now urgent. If ever a book could be described as essential, this is it.

It is vital that social work managers and leaders are able to deliver and manage effective supervision to their teams. Recent social work reports such as the Munro Review into Child Protection (2011) identified poor supervision as a barrier to good and effective social work practice and highlighted the need for quality supervision to become embedded within departments. This book demonstrates how both managers and their staff can engage with supervision with a view to successful outcomes. There are detailed sections on audit tasks and reflection questions to enable readers to increase awareness of their role as well as develop action plans for improvement in their practice.