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The Socio-Communicational Style and the Need for Supervision of Professionals from the Social Services
The Socio-Communicational Style and the Need for Supervision of Professionals from the Social Services

Author(s): Laurenţiu Ţîru, Patricia Luciana Runcan, Cosmin Goian
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Editura Lumen, Asociatia Lumen
Keywords: supervision; professional development; education; professional burnout; social work.

Summary/Abstract: The present paper aims to make an analysis of the way supervision is perceived in the Romanian professional community working with people in difficulty. Defining supervision includes four dimensions: a professional view, in which supervision is seen as a part of the integration process and professional development; a social support dimension; a third emphasizes learning, supervision as education, teaching; and the last dimension is that of control. In this study we performed a research on professionals involved in supervision: psychologists and social workers. Our findings show that education is the best accepted way of seeing supervision, while that of control is the most rejected one. A huge majority 94.5% of the investigated professionals appreciate the role of supervision. Approximately 50% of the subjects see the supervisor as educator. Professional development and professional learning are seen as the advantages of supervision.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 37
  • Page Range: 180-195
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: English