The Social Work Supervisor
1st Edition
Published on 1. December 1995
210 pages
978-0-335-23098-3 (ISBN)
Description
This is the first comprehensive British text on supervision of staff in social work, community care and social welfare settings. It examines the changing social work scene of the 1990s, and breaks new ground in areas such as anti-oppressive supervision, supervision of post-traumatic stress, group supervision.
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Allan Brown | Iain Bourne
The Social Work Supervisor
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12/1995
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Content
- Front cover
- Half title
- Series editors
- Title page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Series editors' preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Who this book is for
- How this book is organised
- Chapter 1 Setting the scene
- The need for this book
- What is supervision?
- A value base for supervision
- Use of language and terminology
- Chapter 2 The making of a supervisor
- Personal formative experiences
- Professional experience as a social work practitioner
- Being supervised
- Being a student supervisior/practice teacher
- Aspects of supervisor style
- Supervision context: the agency, the service users and the team/group setting
- Training implications
- Chapter 3 Supervision and power: an anti-oppressive perspective
- Concepts of power in supervision
- Discrimination/anti-discrimination and oppression/anti-oppression
- Power, difference and similarity in the supervisory relationship
- Information about discrimination and oppression in supervision
- Implications for anti-oppressive/empowering supervision
- Chapter 4 Getting started: contracts and boundaries
- Key elements in the contract
- Boundary issues
- Supervisor insecurity
- Supervisee insecurity
- Conclusion
- Chapter 5 A model for practice
- A model based on four primary systems
- Developmental themes: the supervisor-supervisee interaction
- Development as a supervisor: implications for the relationship
- Conclusion
- Chapter 6 The supervision relationship
- Introduction
- Illustrations of common relationship issues
- A framework for reviewing supervisory relationships
- Useful theories to aid understanding
- Skills for resolving relationship difficulties
- Chapter 7 Stress and trauma: the supervisor's response
- Sources of stress
- Accumulated stress and burnout
- A proactive supervisory response to worker stress
- Work-related trauma
- Supervisory responses to trauma
- Summary
- Chapter 8 Supervision and the team
- What is a team?
- Ways of classifying and thinking about teams
- Different formats for supervision
- The team as a group, and associated supervision issues
- Supervisee rivalries
- External influences
- A team focus for resolving issues
- Training for teamwork
- Conclusion
- Chapter 9 Group supervision
- Why use group supervision?
- Introducing group supervision
- Choices
- Difficulties in group supervision
- Influences on group supervision
- The skilled group supervisor
- Advantages and disadvantages: an interim conclusion
- Conclusion
- Chapter 10 Training and development
- Introduction
- Agency policy: preconditions for effective supervision
- A developmental approach to supervisor training
- The elements of good training
- Generic elements
- Specialist elements
- Conclusion
- Chapter 11 Core themes in a time of change
- Summary
- Looking ahead
- References
- Index
- Back cover
