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External supervision in social work: power, space, risk, and the search for safety. |
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Australian Social Work, 65(2), June 2012, pp.197-213. |
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0312-407X |
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1447-0748 |
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Since the late 1990s there has been an increasing trend in New Zealand towards the separation of ‘clinical’ or ‘professional’ supervision of social workers from ‘line’ supervision. Professional or clinical supervision is often sourced externally through a private arrangement or contracted out by agencies to individual practitioners of supervision. The reasons for the trend towards external supervision include: the perceived imposition of managerial agendas on supervision; the problem of power dynamics within organisations; and a growing risk conceptualisation of practitioners’ wellbeing. This exploratory paper examines the impact of discourses of risk and safety, and space and place within social work supervision. A small qualitative study of the experiences of 6 expert supervisors on their views of the challenges of supervision practice in New Zealand is described in order to illustrate these themes. A significant finding is that the dominance of compliance and surveillance activities within the public sector is linked to the pursuit of external supervision. It is suggested that there are 4 dominant forms of supervision: internal managerial; internal reflective; external professional; and external personal. The impact of the privatisation of supervision and areas that require further exploration are discussed. |
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privatisation; risk management; social work; social workers; staff management; staff supervision; |
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www.scie-socialcareonline.org.uk/profile.asp?guid=31774570-c899-4840-a717-6e4286f64de6 |
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