Clinical Supervision in the Medical Profession: Structured Reflective Practice
Foreword by Iona Heath
Introduction
Introduction to clinical supervision
The Five Realms
The Balint group as a form of supervision
Narrative-based supervision
Incidental supervision
Peer supervision
Supervision and wellbeing
Coaching for doctors
Supervision skills to enhance appraisal
Effective supervision: The evidence base
The supervisee's perspective
Listening to resistance
Brian Kaplan, MD
With a foreword by Iona Heath, President of the Royal College of General Practitioners.
This book helps trainee and practicing doctors to develop a broader understanding of supervision. Written by doctors and other medical specialists experienced in clinical supervision it gives the reader the means to enable, structure and develop their reflective practice. It provides practical tools to engage positively with regulatory challenges, increase satisfaction at work and improve quality of care.
Clinical Supervision in the Medical Profession considers the reasons for clinical supervision and how it can support doctors and even transform how they engage with challenging issues. The authors outline a range of ways that they have put clinical supervision into practice and how it has benefitted their work.
Contributors
Christine Dunkley, Helen Halpern, Anita Houghton, Sue Morrison, David Owen, Patricia Ridsdale, Paul Sackin, John Salinsky, Robin Shohet, Maggie Stanton, Guy Undrill and Sonya Wallbank.