A Different Wisdom

Penny Henderson is an accredited Counsellor and Supervisor and Fellow of BACP. Her career has encompassed many years of Open University work as a tutor and tutor-counsellor and development of adult learning materials, and institutional research. She has been a training officer in Social Services, offering in-service and group work training there, and then a staff counselling service. Her self employed work in addition to counselling and supervision has included consultation to organisations and teams, and development of training materials for group work, exam anxiety, experiential training methods, counselling in Primary Care, and supervision. She is author of many articles, chapters and books on these topics. For over a decade she has been involved, too, in education for medical students, and latterly in supervision of doctors.

Introduction , Building a strong foundation , Beginning as a supervisor , Relationship climates , Encouraging resilience , Vulnerability , Learning from supervision , Developing a supervisory style , Developing the “internal supervisor” , Creative supervision , Taking supervisory authority , Coping with ethical dilemmas , Mistakes and complaints , Giving references and writing reports , Becoming more experienced as a supervisor , Bereavement and the supervisory relationship: working in the landscape of loss , Supervision of brief counselling , Endings and retirement , Consultative supervision for supervisors , Concluding comments