Super-vision

This text reports on the findings of the Consensus Conference of Midwifery Supervision, and contains a collection of essays written by the speakers at the Conference, in which they expand on their themes and make recommendations for future midwifery supervision. The essays included are :"History of Midwifery Supervision", "LSA and the Midwife", "Where Supervision Goes Wrong", "Conflict in Supervision", "Examples of Good Supervision", "Towards a Model of Midwifery Management", "The Consumer View", "Audit of Midwifery Supervision", "Psychodynamic Counselling and Therapy", and "Supervision in Social Work". The idea for the Conference sprang from the work of the Association of Radical Midwives Working Party, which was set up in 1993 in response to the apparent increase in the number of midwives being disciplined, either informally or officially.