The ultimate goal of reflective practice is to improve the quality of early childhood services through increasing organizational capacity and enhancing provider competency. Often providers are faced with trauma of the families they work with and this trauma can trigger their own pain and suffering. The experience the provider brings to the relationship can get in the way of working effectively with families unless there is a venue to explore, understand, and distill the negative or difficult emotions elicited from the work...The early years of development...are particularly critical...It is essential that providers have consistent space to become aware of and attend to their own feelings to avoid responses that can lead to unintended and negative consequences.
-- Rebecca Shamoon Shanok, 2009
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The above excerpt from a piece promoting an upcoming conference on the East Coast reminds us of why supervision is important, and what that supervision should look like. -gw
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Learn More About Reflective Supervision
* Reflecting on Reflective Practice: http://www.multiplyingconnections.org/
* Zero to Three: http://www.zerotothree.org/
* Michigan Association of Infant Mental Health: http://www.mi-aimh.org/
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