Group Analytic Supervision

Group Analytic Supervision uses group analytic concepts to cast light on how group supervision works, covering history, theory and practice.

Margaret Gallop and Margaret Smith illustrate the benefits that supervision can provide for post-qualification group supervision. This book offers a model of group analytic supervision, the clinical hexagon, to support supervisors of groups in thinking about their supervision group and its process. Gallop and Smith use vignettes to illustrate how supervision groups work together to broaden and deepen their understanding of their clients, including examples that demonstrate the benefits of this multi-perspective approach for therapists providing dyadic therapy. Group Analytic Supervision addresses several of the key tasks for supervisors of groups, including establishing and maintaining boundaries around the work, establishing good working relationships, working with parallel process, transference and countertransference. It describes using difference and diversity to enrich learning and it stresses the importance of self-care.

Group Analytic Supervision will be essential reading for anyone who is providing group supervision, particularly therapists who undertake group analytic training. It will also be of great interest to counsellors and therapists, social workers, probation officers and healthcare staff who both provide and receive group supervision.

Margaret Smith is a psychodynamic psychotherapist and group analyst working in private practice with a special interest in group supervision. She is an independent member of The United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP), a Member of the Institute of Group Analysis (IGA) and British Association for Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Supervision (BAPPS).

Margaret Gallop is a group analytic psychotherapist in private practice with a special interest in supervision. She is a Member of the Institute for Group Analysis and a Member of the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP). She is a former co-convenor of the IGA Diploma in ’Using the Group as a Medium for Supervision.’