Issues of
Responsibilty
 
  • It is the therapist’s responsibility to explore his/her therapeutic work openly and honestly with the supervisor.
  • Supervisors are responsible for helping the therapist/s to reflect critically upon their work.
  • Both supervisor and therapist are responsible for ensuring the most effective use of supervision time.
  • Both supervisor and therapist are responsible for setting and maintaining clear boundaries between working relationships, friendships or other relationships and making explicit the boundaries between supervision, consultancy, therapy and training.
  • Supervisors must recognise the value and integrity of all therapists as people, irrespective of origin, status, sex, sexual orientation, age, belief or contribution to society.
  • Both supervisor and therapist should consider their respective legal liabilities to one another, the employing organisation, if any, and to the client.
  • Therapists who are in private practice are responsible for finding their own supervisors.
 
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