Supervision in Child and Youth Care Practice

Supervision in Child and Youth Care Practice urges readers to prioritize supervision as an essential element of the professional and personal development of child and youth care workers. By applying the same interpersonally-focused framework that guides relational child and youth care, this text equips readers with strategies for making deliberate and meaningful use of both the structured and impromptu opportunities for supervision that occur within the “life space” of the residential care setting. This includes using the supervisory relationship as a space to model, coach, learn, and explore the very relational characteristics that will guide meaningful and transformative relationships with children and youth. This book is a must-read for all child and youth care workers and their supervisors and is a great reminder that by investing in our youth care workers we are investing in our youth.