Enlightening Professional Supervision in Social Work: Voices and Virtues of Supervisors

The book addresses the need for professional supervision in social work, providing a voice for supervisors to share their experiences and offering insights into concepts and models employed by supervisors. It emphasizes the importance of integrating the personal and professional self to deliver better quality services to people, agencies, and communities. The book argues that current trends compel action for well-thought-through professional supervision for all who need it, and will benefit supervisors, practitioners, and social work educators and students, as well as social policy administrators and managers and trainers in the social services sector.

Format: Hardback
Length: 262 pages
Publication date: 15 November 2022
Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG

Social work practitioners have long recognized the importance of professional supervision in addressing the complex and diverse challenges they face in their work. This book is a response to the felt need for a comprehensive and practical guide to professional supervision in social work. It provides a voice for supervisors to share their experiences and insights, and offers a framework for understanding the core processes and content of professional supervision.

The book begins by reflecting on the social work profession in the context of contemporary socio-economic and political challenges and wide-ranging organizational and practice settings. It highlights the importance of social workers' ability to work with difficult, undefined, and unique human situations where there are no ready-made solutions or quick fixes. This constant and complex working process can cause stress, burnout, and affect their quality of work and judgment if they are not supported appropriately and in a timely way.

One such support to social workers is offering professional supervision. Professional supervision is a process in which a supervisor provides guidance, support, and feedback to a social worker in their work. It can take many different forms, including individual supervision, group supervision, and peer supervision.

The narratives of experienced supervisors reveal critical dilemmas, core processes, and content, expectations, issues posed, and concepts and theories employed in professional supervision. They highlight the importance of the supervisee's being through integrating the personal and professional self to deliver better quality services to people, agencies, and communities.

The book argues that the current trends compel action for well-thought-through professional supervision for all who need it. Those interested in professional supervision—supervisees, practitioners, and supervisors—will benefit from reading this book.

Enlightening Professional Supervision in Social Work: Voices and Virtues of Supervisors is the resource that both supervisors and practitioners need to create a safe environment. It provides a framework for understanding the core processes and content of professional supervision, and offers insights into the experiences and insights of experienced supervisors.

In conclusion, Enlightening Professional Supervision in Social Work: Voices and Virtues of Supervisors is a valuable resource for social work practitioners and supervisors. It provides a voice for supervisors to share their experiences and insights, and offers a framework for understanding the core processes and content of professional supervision. It underscores the importance of the supervisee's being through integrating the personal and professional self to deliver better quality services to people, agencies, and communities.

Weight: 588g
Dimension: 235 x 155 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783031185403
Edition number: 1st ed. 2022