Supervision Provided by the Department

The department has a strong interest in providing clinical supervision to staff from within the
department and, where resources allow, to other staff and staff groups requesting supervision
from us.

What Supervisor?
Clinical Supervisors within the department come from a variety of clinical backgrounds with a
range of training experiences and include Clinical Psychologists; Counsellors; Cognitive-
Behavioural Therapists;Art therapists; Cognitive Analytic Therapists.

What Model?
Supervisors offer supervision across a range of models including Psychodynamic/Psycho-
therapy; Cognitive-behavioural therapy; counselling; person-centred/humanistic; integrative/
eclectic; social constructionist/normative; group analytic; Gestalt; Feminist; Systemic.

Supervision of an area of Specialist Interest?
Supervisors also offer supervision of areas of specialist interest e.g. Eating Distress;
working with voices; alternatives to psychiatry; risk/risk taking; trauma work; supervision of
supervision.

What Format?
Supervisors may offer individual, paired or group supervision. Depending on need,
supervision sessions may occur weekly; fortnightly; monthly or on an ad hoc basis.

Past and Current Supervision Arrangements to Colleagues outside the department include:
Supervision of Macmillan Nurses; Balint Groups offering supervision to G.Ps in Shropshire;
Supervision of Clinical Risk Managers at the Princess Royal and Royal Shrewsbury
Hospitals; Shelton Hospital Staff; group supervision to Substance Misuse Team staff

If you want to discuss supervision needs further,
contact Marilyn Owens
Tel 01746 768787

Supervision Review - 2005 report by Marilyn Owens

Placements are also provided to trainee clinical psychologists from the Shropshire/Staffordshire training programme and sometimes to trainees on other courses. These placements (and placements from clinical psychologists from other specialities) can be read on the latest placement brochure. For more information about these, contact Helen Jones, Clinical Tutor with the Shropshire/Staffordshire Clinical Psychology Doctoral Programme.