A Reflecting Team Format for Solution-Oriented Supervision: Practical Guidelines and Theoretical Distinctions

Abstract

Our primary aim is to outline an approach to supervision that integrates the reflecting team format with solution-oriented principles and methods. The article outlines the three stages of the approach, and provides a number of practical guidelines and sample questions and leads for each. A specific case example is then followed through the three stages. As well as contributing to practice in this emerging field, we hope also to contribute to discussions on the use of reflecting teams in general, by making some distinctions and clarifications that we have found helpful in formulating our approach. In particular, we distinguish pluralistic from theoretically aligned uses of reflecting teams, identifying our approach with the latter category. We explore the implications of this theoretical distinction for the development of practical guidelines.