V uchebnom posobii rassmatrivaetsya psikhologicheskaya superviziya kak osobyy vid deyatel'nosti, tsel' kotoroy - okazyvat' psikhologicheskuyu pomoshch' professionalam, rabotayushchim v sfere pomogayushchikh professiy (sotsial'nye rabotniki, psikhologi, psikhoterapevty, pedagogi, vospitateli, menedzhery i dr.), v reshenii ikh professional'no-lichnostnykh/lich¬nostno-professional'nykh problem. Uchastie v supervizii - individual'noy ili gruppovoy - sposobstvuet povysheniyu kachestva professional'noy deyatel'nosti superviziruemykh vne zavisimosti ot stazha raboty, a takzhe sluzhit profilaktike ikh emotsional'nogo vygoraniya, professional'noy deformatsii. Psikhologicheskoe supervizorskoe soprovozhdenie rekkomenduetsya nachinat' s pervykh shagov (pervykh kursov) professional'nogo obucheniya. Dlya obuchayushchikhsya i spetsialistov, rabotayushchikh v sfere pomogayushchikh professiy: psikhologov, pedagogov, vrachey, sotsial'nykh rabotnikov, menedzherov i dr.