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RISKS AND SIDE EFFECTS OF SUPERVISION s Besides that there are useful side effects — possibly more joy at work for the team-mates or a higher self-efficacy of the supervisee. + Unwanted side effects could also be part of the game (also in effect full processes) as for instance more time is needed for team meetings or a precarious or exaggerated opinion of supervisees self. All these side effects can be located on all levels of the supervised system: among the client(s) of the supervisee, the supervisee, the team of the supervisees or the organisation of the supervisees e.g. by spending the employee’s time and paying for supervision which does not reach its goals. ¢ If the unwanted effects prevail or if there are only unwanted and no positive effects at all, there we can detect a harm or damage done to the supervisee or the organisation of the supervisees as a supervision result. Harm is the negative consequence of a risk, which all interventions with human beings bare. ¢ This harm could result from the incompetence of the supervisor, from his/her mistakes in leading the process and communication”. It is an open discussion if these harms also can occur without any remarkable misdemeanour of the supervisor, by other influences coming from the field, the organisation or the supervisees themselves. Anyhow, the supervisor is responsible for the process. If the situation is obstructing the supervisions aim, the supervisor has to realise it and deal with it — unless he/she stops the supervision process. PUBLICATIONS IN GERMANY AND AUSTRIA Since 2000 the supervision-community started to deal with the difficulties, negative effects and risks of supervision and in some works these aspects have been published. L6wer-Hirsch” describes the example of harmful private involvement of supervisor and supervisee and Môller'* deals with the topic of shame in supervision-processes. The Handbook Supervision 3° contains 18 1° Brigitte Schigl — Silke Birgitta Gahleitner, Fehler machen - aus Fehlern lernen? Perspektiven zur Klassifizierung von psychotherapeutischen Fehlern und dem Umgang damit, Psychotherapie-Wissenschaft, Vol. 3, 2013/01, 23-33, www.psychotherapie-wissenschaft.info/ index.php/psy-wis/article/view/1001/975, accessed 18 May 2015. 17 Marga Lower-Hirsch, Opfer von Beratung, Supervision, 3 (2003) 38-43. Heidi Möller, Schamerleben in Supervisionsprozessen, 2002, www.donau-uni.ac.at/imperia/ md/content/studium/umwelt_medizin/psymed/artikel/schamerleben.pdf, accessed 19 July 2015. 1% Harald Pühl (ed.), Handbuch Supervision 3, Berlin, Ulrich Leutner Verlag, 2009. - 103 +
