Wilkins, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2780-0385
2023.
Seven principles of effective supervision for child and family social work.
Practice: Social Work in Action
10.1080/09503153.2023.2261148
Item availability restricted. |
PDF
- Accepted Post-Print Version
Restricted to Repository staff only until 26 September 2024 due to copyright restrictions. Download (1MB) |
Abstract
Supervision is widely regarded as an essential component of social work practice. Yet the gap between the ‘rhetoric’ of supervision (what it should be) and the ‘reality’ (what it is) is often significant. In this article, based on my own reflections on a decade spent researching the topic, I propose seven principles of effective supervision for child and family social work – (i) collaboration, (ii) thinking aloud, (iii) emotional reflection in relation to casework, (iv) explicit identification of need, risk, harm and strengths (v) a focus on parent and child-defined ideas of helping and outcomes, (vi) exploring multiple perspectives, and (vii) planning for the whys and hows of practice. The aim is to provide supervisors (and organisations) with a framework for thinking about how they provide supervision. These principles are not unique, and I did not ‘discover’ them. Yet I hope that by presenting them as a collective, they may offer a useful basis for reflecting on the provision of effective supervision in all the various contexts of statutory children’s services.
Item Type: | Article |
---|---|
Date Type: | Published Online |
Status: | In Press |
Schools: | Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education) |
Publisher: | Taylor and Francis Group |
ISSN: | 0950-3153 |
Date of First Compliant Deposit: | 12 December 2023 |
Date of Acceptance: | 13 September 2023 |
Last Modified: | 12 Dec 2023 18:26 |
URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/164629 |
Actions (repository staff only)
Edit Item |