Sharing Supervision Conversations. V3.

• Research type

  Research Study

• Full title

  Sharing Supervision Conversations. An exploration of the effects of videoed feedback in family therapy supervision

• IRAS ID

  146074

• Contact name

  Philip Trenchard

• Contact email

  office@nelsontrust.com

• Research summary

  Reflecting teamwork has been common practice over the past decade, where therapy team conversations are shared
  with the client(s). In doing this, the therapist interviews the client(s) and during the session, the team enters the room
  to share their ideas. This practice fits philosophically with developments in family therapy, which privilege the therapist
  as part of the system; enabling careful use of self, with attention to social difference. This research aims to extend
  upon this idea to the supervisory context; exploring the effects of sharing supervision conversations with families who
  are engaged in family therapy, using a participatory action research model.
  This research will be carried out through a number of reflexive loops in which the family, myself (therapist) and a peer
  supervision group, reflect on the work in a series of appreciative enquiries and group reflections. The first appreciative
  enquiry, (Family Reflection 1) will be a recorded appreciative enquiry carried out by the Therapist in which the family are
  invited to reflect on the new process. The recording of Family Reflection 1 is the viewed in a peer supervision session
  in which the family therapist and support worker will discuss their responses to the recorded family discussion in a
  second reflective conversation (Therapist’s reflection 1), which will also be recorded. The peer supervision team, will
  then reflect on their experience of listening to the therapist and support workers reflections of the family’s appreciative
  enquiry in a third reflection (Supervisory reflection 1). The recorded therapist and supervisory reflections is then taken to
  the family, by the therapist, who will discuss, with the family, their responses in a further reflection (Family Reflection 2).
  This will be recorded. The appreciative enquiries, on this new way of working, will provide the essence of the research
  data and go toward informing future practice.

• REC name

  Social Care REC

• REC reference

  14/IEC08/0002

• Date of REC Opinion

  25 Feb 2014

• REC opinion

  Further Information Favourable Opinion