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Supervision : A Brief History
The term supervision means, etymologically, "surveillance". Its modern meaning is deeply rooted in the beginnings of specialised social activities (Brashears, 1995).
It is important to mention that the current term supervision comes from the pragmatic view of the world, that it relies on the theory of communication, on the theories of group functioning, and that it has developed as a must within scientific management, becoming part of the latter. This view supposes an open relationship, meaning that . it concerns observable, measurable professional activities which both supervisee and supervisor are aware of. Scientific supervision is structured according to empirical premises.
The development of professional efficacy in the supervisee goes together with personal development. The process of increasing professional efficacy is a personalised one because each supervisee has their own ways of development. Yet, the professional issue is a group issue, and solving professional problems is directly proportional with efficacy of communication that, in turn, is influenced by the private life of the group members. Passing over professional skills, particularly skills related to the overcoming of highly emotional difficulties, is rather an affective modelling than a transmission of information within a formal system (Minulescu, Lucaciu, 2006).
The second vision, the romantic one, concerns an archetypal relationship that is mainly individual, initiatic, between a maestro and their apprentice, between magister and competitors. However, some disciplines occurred within such romantic frameworks (as, for instance, psychoanalysis), while "growing up", they migrated towards the academic, teaching, pragmatic, and...