Main description:

Mindfulness and Compassion in Integrative Supervision presents an original integrative and transtheoretical approach to supervision that emphasises the importance of mindful awareness and compassion in supervision practice.

Psychotherapists are taught about importance of compassion for their clients, while the role of bringing self-compassion toward themselves is often neglected. This book offers novel perspectives on mindful awareness, self-compassion, physiological synchrony, and emotional regulation in supervision. It presents various mindfulness- and compassion-oriented methods and interventions that are used within an attuned supervisory relationship. Through vignettes and transcripts of supervision sessions, the authors illustrate the power of mindful awareness and self-compassion to transform supervisees' dysregulated experience related to their psychotherapy work. The book embraces all main dimensions of human experience: physiological, affective, relational, cognitive, behavioural, spiritual, and contextual.

The book will have an international appeal amongst supervisors from different supervision approaches and psychotherapists/counsellors who may find it useful for their practice, self-care and the prevention of burnout.

Contents:

PART 1: Theoretical foundations 1. Introduction to mindfulness- and compassion-oriented integrative supervision 2. Relating from the observing self: Mindfulness and compassion in supervision 3. Mindfulness- and compassion-oriented transformative supervision model 4. Emotional and physiological regulation as the fourth supervision function 5. Supervisory Alliance and Supervisory Alliance Rupture Repair 6. Methods and interventions in integrative supervision PART 2: Mindfulness- and compassion-oriented methods in supervision 7. Mindfulness-oriented interventions in integrative supervision 8. Mindful processing in psychotherapy supervision 9. Methods of emotional and physiological regulation in supervision 10. Compassion-focused interventions in integrative supervision 11. Self-compassion processing in supervision 12. Self-care and prevention of burnout in mindfulness- and compassion-oriented supervision