The Practice of Clinical and Counselling Supervision

Nadine Pelling is a Clinical Psychologist, Member of the Australian Psychological Society and the APS College of Clinical Psychologists, and an Approved Supervisor with the Psychology Board of Australia. She is a Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology and Counselling at the University of South Australia and maintains a private practice in the southern suburbs of Adelaide. Philip Armstrong is the past CEO of the Australian Counselling Association (Apr 2000 to Oct 2023), current Executive Director of Optimise Potential, and is the founder of the RISE UP Supervision program. Philip also held an Adjunct Senior Industry Fellow position at the University of South Australia from 2000 to Oct 2023.

Part A: Introduction. 1. Introduction to Clinical Supervision 2. Conceptualising Counselling Supervision 3. Administration and Marketing of Supervision Part B: Professional Issues 4. Ethical Issues in the Clinical Supervision of Evidence-Based practices 5. When psychotherapy becomes a matter of life and death: Supervision for suicide prevention 6. Addressing supervisee fears and interest areas in supervision 7. Supervision and Vicarious Trauma 8. Demonstrating hope, compassion, and justice: Supervision of family violence counsellors in Australia Part C: Approaches 9. Models of supervision: from theory to practice 10. Alliance Supervision to Enhance Client Outcomes 11. Solution Focussed Supervision 12. Processes and interventions to facilitate supervisees’ learning 13. Christian Counselling Supervision 14. Supervision of Social Workers by Rebecca Braid Part D: Professional Counsellors and Supervisors 15. Who are Australian counsellors and how do they attend to their professional development? The Supervisory Relationship 17: Supervisor development 18. Multicultural Counselling Supervision: Strengthening Learning and Practice Applications Part E: Evaluation 19. Supervision as Gatekeeping: Managing professional competency problems in student supervisees 20. Counsellor Competence 21. Supervising clinical placement Part F: Research 22. The State of Supervision Scholarship in the 21st Century 23. An overview of psychotherapy research in Regionally specific research on psychotherapy and counselling 24. Research on evidence-based therapies in Asian countries Part G: International Variations 25. INTERNATIONAL COUNSELLING AND PSYCHOLOGY PROFESSIONAL ORGANISATIONS AND RESOURCES 26: Counselling regulation, education, supervision, and representation in Canada 27. Strategic approaches to managing the development of the counselling profession in Hong Kong 28. An Overview of counselling practices in Indonesia 29. Counselling regulation, education, and representation in Malaysia 30. The counseling profession in the Philippines 31. The Professionalisation of Counselling Supervision in Singapore 32. Counseling regulation, education, and representation in the United States of America Appendix A: Example Supervision Contract. Appendix B: Example Counselling Contract. Appendix C: Family Violence Supervision. Appendix D: Possible Answers to Educational Questions and Activities