Article 002

Article Two

First stage:

Late 19th century; introduced as a supportive and reflective space for social workers in USA
1920’s; Max Eitingon thought to be the first to make supervision a formal requirement for those in psychoanalytic training

Second stage:

1950’s; Further supervision emerged as other counselling and psychotherapy orientations evolved

Third stage:

1970’s; start to make a bid for being a more educational process than a counselling one
Focus from the person doing the work to the work itself
Supervision becomes centred on practice, the actual work done with a view to using that work to improve future work

Fourth stage:

During first decade of 21st century, supervision becomes a profession in its own right with supervisors trained in coaching, individual and group supervision and organisational consultancy
In 2000 Hawkins & Shohet publish the seminal ‘Supervision in the Helping Professions, An Individual, Group and Organizational Approach (Supervision in Context)’
Supervision becomes embedded in good practice for coaches and is a professional requirement of most of the accrediting coaching professional bodies

Fifth stage:

Supervision or super-vision is increasingly being recognised as a distinctive enough discipline to be a relationship of great value to the much wider audience of organisational professionals and practitioners operating in all contexts of people development e.g. leadership supervision.