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Supervision: A Choice between Equals?
Author(s) -
Jones Richard
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
british journal of psychotherapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.442
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 1752-0118
pISSN - 0265-9883
DOI - 10.1111/j.1752-0118.1989.tb01109.x
Subject(s) - supervisor , safeguarding , psychology , dilemma , psychotherapist , social psychology , epistemology , nursing , management , medicine , philosophy , economics
. The two main functions of supervision are safeguarding the patient and training the therapist. When difficulties arise in therapy the supervisor faces the dilemma of which of these is his priority. The purpose of this paper is to suggest a solution to this by focusing on the role responsibilities of the supervisor.