Intercultural Supervision in Therapeutic Practice Dialogues, Perspectives and Reflections

Intercultural Supervision in Therapeutic Practice extends the dynamics of intercultural principles beyond the scope of the therapy room to the supervisory relationship. The book spotlights reflections from diverse cultural and "racial" identities and modalities, facilitating critical exchanges and conversations amongst the contributors without the constriction of rank. Trainee and qualified therapists who are not supervisors highlight the radical perspective of their placement supervision experience within intercultural settings and some pitfalls encountered in non-intercultural practice contexts. Chapters by experienced supervisors describe and review interventions, with recommendations for practice. The themes covered include the supervision of trainees within agencies, multi-disciplinary women working with survivors of domestic violence, and the supervision of therapists working with refugees and asylum seekers. At once contemporary and historical, this volume will serve as a reference for inquiring academics, and be of interest to students and clinicians undertaking supervision training, and supervisors and practitioners seeking to offer supervision to multi-disciplinary mental health practitioners.

Part 1: Mapping Supervisions 1. Beyond recognition: Rac(ing) in supervision: In relation to global majority therapists-in-training and its relevance to professional identity Charles Brown 2. Supervision within the context of decolonisation and intersectionality Oye Agoro 3. Drawing attention to what is and isn’t said, seen, heard, felt, and communicated in the intercultural supervisory space Angie Knorpel and Peter Cockersell Part 2: Supervision and the Social 4. The reflective group process for female workers Dilek Güngör 5. Nafsiyat Refugee Project: An Intercultural Psychotherapy Supervision Model Gita Patel 6. Themes in an intercultural approach to supervision: Working with survivors of abuse Waheeda Islam Part 3: Developmental Perspectives 7. Passing as White - Colour blindness in the journey of a Multiracial Psychotherapist Ravind Jeawon 8. An Attachment Approach to Working with Issues of Difference in an Intercultural Setting Caroline Adewole   Part 4: Supervision as intercultural training [potentialities and pitfalls] 9. Interplays of Visible and Invisible Differences in the Intercultural Supervision Frame Eda Avcioglu 10. My Journey with Omar in Supervision Ali Donat 11. Call to adventure: The pitfalls of a narrative structure for an intercultural trainee Hady Kamar 12. Towards an intercultural supervision Kiros Hetep 13. Hidden Realities Anna Chait Ananse(s?m) 14. Ananse(s?m): Supervisory insights from his shattered pot of wisdom Baffour Ababio

Baffour Ababio is a psychoanalytic intercultural psychotherapist and clinical supervisor in private practice and at the Nafsiyat Intercultural Therapy Centre, where he is Clinical Lead. Baffour completed his psychotherapy training at University College London and his supervision training at the Guild of Psychotherapists and is a member of UKCP and BAPPS. With Roland Littlewood, he has co-edited a volume on intercultural psychotherapy entitled Intercultural Therapy: Challenges, Insights and Developments.