Supervision Essentials for the Feminist Psychotherapy Model of Supervision

While feminist therapy has grown in stature and recognition in the last few decades, comparatively little has been written about supervision and consultation from a feminist standpoint.

In this book, the latest in the Clinical Supervision Essentials series from APA Books, Dr. Laura Brown remedies this deficit by presenting a theoretically-grounded, yet practical approach to supervision based on the principles of feminist psychotherapy.

This volume offers a framework for translating feminist therapy constructs — including recognizing the impact of systemic hierarchies, and thinking critically about dominant cultural norms in the practice of psychotherapy — into the supervision setting.

Incorporating practices derived from multicultural, queer, and other critical psychologies, feminist therapy supervision challenges trainees and supervisors alike to engage with difficult questions about the presence of bias, and ways in which power distributes itself in the context of education, psychotherapy, and supervision itself.

Includes a synthesis of the literature on feminist therapy and theory, as well as case examples and practical advice for resolving common supervision problems. The book also offers close analyses of the author's consulting session documented in the DVD Feminist Therapy Supervision, also available from APA books.

Foreword to the Clinical Supervision Essentials Series

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Basic Principles of Feminist Supervision
2. Epistemologies and Methodologies of Feminist Supervision
3. Structure and Process of Feminist Supervision
4. Handling Common Supervisory Challenges
5. Development of Supervisors, Development of the Field: Future Directions for Feminist Supervision Practice

• Appendix A: Sample Feminist Supervision Evaluation Form
• Appendix B: Sample Feminist Supervision Agreement
• Appendix C: Sample Private Practice Consultation Agreement — Professional Consultation Services Agreement
• Appendix D: Feminist Therapy Institute Code of Ethics (Revised, 1999)

Suggested Readings

References

Index

About the Author

Laura S. Brown, PhD, ABPP, has been a practitioner of feminist psychotherapy, supervision, and forensic psychology since the 1970s. As the author of the foundational text Subversive Dialogues: Theory in Feminist Therapy, in addition to 11 other books and more than 150 articles and book chapters, she has been a major contributor to theory and practice in the fields of feminist psychotherapy and trauma treatment.

Dr. Brown has been featured in APA DVDs about feminist therapy, trauma treatment, and feminist approaches to supervision, and has also lectured on these and related topics in the United States, Canada, Israel, Taiwan, Australia, and Europe. From 2006 to 2015, she directed the Fremont Community Therapy Project, a feminist therapy training clinic that she founded.

She is a fellow of nine APA divisions, the Association for Psychological Science, and the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation.

A late-in-life student of aikido, Dr. Brown was working toward her black belt at the time of this book's publication.

Brown entreats supervisors and trainees alike to unpack power dynamics and engage collaboratively, rather than rely on fallback strategies such as denial, compliance, pleasing, avoidance, self-deprecation, authoritarianism, and other self-protective coping tactics that thwart personal and professional growth and derail social change.
—PsycCRITIQUES

• Feminist Therapy Supervision
  

  This DVD demonstrates and discusses the feminist approach to supervision. The goal of feminist supervision is to empower the supervisee by using analysis of gender and analysis of power to achieve the goal of an egalitarian supervisory relationship, while simultaneously acknowledging and embracing feminist political analysis and scholarship on the psychology of women and gender.

Welcome to the clinician and practitioner resources for Supervision Essentials for the Feminist Psychotherapy Model of Supervision. This website contains sample forms and documents that may be useful to clinical supervisors. To reprint or adapt them for publication, permission is required from the appropriate copyright holders.

• Appendix A: Sample Feminist Supervision Evaluation Form (PDF, 19KB)opens in new window
• Appendix B: Sample Feminist Supervision Agreement (PDF, 31KB)opens in new window
• Appendix C: Sample Private Practice Consultation (PDF, 24KB)opens in new window
• Appendix D: Feminist Therapy Institute Code of Ethics (PDF, 45KB)opens in new window