EVALUATION OF SUPERVISION NEEDS OF SOCIAL WORKERS WORKING IN DIFFERENT PROFESSIONAL FIELDS

Abstract

The aim of the research is to assess the supervision needs of social work specialists. Within the scope of the research, 10 different areas where social work specialists work; medical social work, forensic social work, social work in local governments, disability and social work, old age and social work, addiction and social work, social work with families, women and social work, children and social work and social work centers (generalist social work practice) have been determined. Interviews were conducted with a total of 20 social work specialists, being two people of each area- one experienced and one relatively inexperienced- by using a semi-structured interview technique. Open-ended interview questions have been addressed to participants and asked to share their thoughts about supervision, their experience in the areas of occupational competence and ethical dilemma, case management process and evaluations of anxiety dimension and their sharings have been assessed in accordance with the supervision need of social work specialists. In the light of obtained data, it was seen that social work specialists need supervision support in the fields such as perception of professional competence, problems occurring in case management, difficulty in determining appropriate method of intervention, feeling anxiety, producing solutions for ethical dilemmas and need of someone whose advice they can ask regularly, especially in the period when they first entered the profession. The importance of this study lies on the fact that it reveals the supervision need of the professionals who are working as social workers in Turkey.

Keywords

• Social Work,Supervision

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