Staff Supervision in Social Care

Making a real difference for staff and service users
Tony Morrison

This third edition of the best-selling Staff Supervision in Social Care offers essential new material as well as updating the existing core material covering the fundamentals of good supervision, group supervision and the emotional impact of the work. This edition extends the understanding and application of the critical links between supervision, the quality of frontline practice and service user outcomes.

Increased emphasis is placed on the role of emotional intelligence as crucial to both the quality of supervision and the quality of practice. There is an expanded description of what happens when workers get stuck, exploring the dynamic relationship between the external environment, the supervisee's performance and the internal world of the supervisee. The contribution of attachment theory to these situations is presented and strategies for addressing such situations are offered. In line with the previous editions, the book contains a wealth of information, research, practical frameworks, action learning exercises and supervision tools. It will appeal to both experienced and new supervisors across the social and health care spectrum, both in the UK and internationally.

Vital information for: frontline supervisors in social care, health, community justice and voluntary sector settings; also those in multidisciplinary and integrated service settings as well as practice teachers, trainers and others involved in workforce development.
Format: wirobound book (326pp)
Price £75
ISBN: 978 1 84196 168 2

Strength to Strength

A facilitator's guide to preparing supervisees, students and trainees for supervision
Tony Morrison

This unique resource provides a tool for supervisors, trainers and student teachers to prepare practitioners for supervision. Too often, attention focuses solely on the training of supervisors, resulting in only one side of the supervision partnership being prepared. This innovative training tool redresses the imbalance by preparing supervisees to act as informed and active partners, in order to maximise the benefits of the supervision process.
Designed to be used flexibly for either work-site development sessions or by trainers for off-site programmes, Strength to Strength fills a major gap in the workforce development armoury. Based around four sets of supervisee competencies and eight supervisee learning objectives, the guide takes facilitators through 20 development sessions, supported by OHPs.

Vital information for: frontline supervisors in health, social care and some criminal justice services such as youth offending team and parts of probation; multidisciplinary and integrated service teams (such as SureStart children's centres); practice teachers for professional training courses/universities who supervise students on placements; trainers and facilitators involved in workforce development in the same sectors.

Format: ringbound resource including OHP and handout masters (254pp)
Price: £75
Order Code: AH3
ISBN: 978 1 84196 175 0

Making the Most of Supervision in Health and Social Care

A manual for supervisees self development
Jacky Knappman and Tony Morrison

This handbook is designed to help supervisees understand the process of clinical supervision and enable them to maximise the benefits of supervision sessions. Making the Most of Supervision in Health and Social Care can be used in conjunction with Strength to Strength.

Format: A4 manual (56pp)
Price: £14.95
Order code: 09P
ISBN: 978 1 900600 77 4