Description
Moving away from the usual medical-modeled framework of mental health focused on problems, Strengths-Based Supervision in Clinical Practice by Jeffrey K. Edwards takes a postmodern, social construction approach, looking for and amplifying strengths and encouraging stakeholders to use them. Based on research in brain science, as well as from the Information Age/Connectivity Age thinking, the book reframes the focus of supervision, management, and leadership to one that collaborates and builds on strengths with supervisees as competent stakeholders in their work with their clients.
Table of Contents
Forward
Prologue
Part I- In the Beginning
1. The History and Traditions of Clinical Supervision
2. Executive Skills of Strengths-Based Supervision
Part II- A Time for a Change to a New Model
3. A Time for Change
4. Strengths-Based Clinical Supervision Primer: Social Constructivism and Postmodernism
5. Strengths-Based Clinical Supervision Primer: From the Roots of Psychology
6. Larger Systems: Strengths-Based Management and Leadership
Part III- Faces of Strength: Putting my Currency where my Mouth Is
7. Supervision Sessions and Personnel Management: Vantage Point, Point of View, and Perspective
8. Two Case Studies
Part IV- Moving into the Future
9. Lessons Learned and Where to from Here?
10. Epilogue
