Deirdre Dowling is a child, adolescent and adult psychoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice in Surrey, UK. She is also a teacher and supervisor. Previously, she worked on the Family Service at the Cassel Hospital, an NHS residential therapeutic assessment and treatment service, and at the British Foundation for Psychotherapy (bpf) as Curriculum Lead for the Independent Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Association (IPCAPA) training.

Julie Kitchener is a teacher and training supervisor for IPCAPA at the bpf. Currently in independent practice, she has worked as a child and adolescent psychotherapist in both general and specialist NHS Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services, and for many years was lead psychotherapist in a children's residential community.

Part 1: The supervisor's task 1. On finding a voice: thoughts on the role of supervisor 2. What aids learning? Thinking about supervision and teaching from a training school's perspective 3. Feel the force: the experience of a supervisee on the child and adolescent psychoanalytic psychotherapy training 4. Research supervision and its role in the training of child psychotherapists 5. On service supervision 6. How can I put this? Writing as supervision Part 2: Broadening horizons 7. Supervision in extraordinary times 8. Supervising work with children and young people with a disability 9. Enhancing practice: consultation to a therapeutic fostering agency 10. 'A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step...' Teaching and supervising on a psychoanalytic training programme based in China 11. Lost in transmission 12 Mirrors to ourselves: reflections on peer group supervision 13 A view from the supervisor's chair: thoughts on turning points and facilitating hope in therapy through face-to-face and online supervision