Holding the Healers: Supervision in Medical Contexts
摘要
This chapter illustrates the value of a systemic narrative-based approach in offering supervision and exploring what sustains healthcare professionals working in medical contexts. It draws on three domains: direṇct clinical work, organisational issues, and personal professional resonances. Whilst the latter is relevant to all clinical contexts, it is particularly important when the body is not functioning as it ‘ought’, as when working with individuals, and families facing ongoing and often traumatising loss, pain and the psychological and embodied shifts in identity posed by illness, disability, and anticipations of death.