Abstract

This orienting chapter introduces social construction and relational theory. Knowledge, meaning and understanding are seen as achievements generated within interactive processes. Thus, in abbreviated form, we can say that looking at supervision as a relational process means focusing on what people (supervisor, supervisee and client) do together and what their “doing” makes. This is a departure from traditional approaches to supervision where skills, techniques and specific abilities of the supervisor, supervisee and/or client are the focus of attention. I introduce social construction and relational theory as one elaboration of a pluralist stance that refigures how we think about and engage in processes of supervision.KeywordsSocial constructionRelational theoryPluralismRelational supervisionCollaborative

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