| Title |
Supervision in helping professions: the situation in Lithuanian social work / |
| Authors |
Večkienė, Nijolė Petronėlė ; Dirgėlienė, Indrė |
| DOI |
10.2340/16501977-0869 |
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| Is Part of |
Journal of rehabilitation medicine: 2nd Baltic and North Sea conference on physical and rehabilitation medicine "From Biomechanisms to Outcomes!" : Vilnius, Lithuania, September 28-30, 2011.. Uppsala : Foundation Rehabilitation Information. 2011, vol. 43, no. 9, p. 844-844.. ISSN 1650-1977. eISSN 1651-2081 |
| Keywords [eng] |
social work ; supervision ; helping professions |
| Abstract [eng] |
Introduction: There are many contrary attitudes about peculiarities of help-providing professions including health care, education, social work; their goals of collaboration and possibilities in Lithuania. Aim: The main goal of this paper was to investigate possibilities and preconditions for the supervision as “tool” for constructing professional identity self-management by analyzing the risk of stress and expectations of support on the basis of social workers’ professional experience. The objectives were: 1) to disclose the experience of painful events in the professional activity of social workers, like a challenge to act or as a threat; 2) to analyze social workers’ attitude to the expectations of support and the ability to use the supportive collaboration; 3) to underline the tendencies and prospects of the application of supervision as a method, that stimulates reflection and provides a possibility to reconsider and identify complexity of professional situations as well as personal experience. Method: This paper presents the results of the research where 81 social-servicesproviding institutions took part. Results: Data showed that social workers in regular activity mostly emphasize lack of support, and just emotional one. The need for the supervisor’s enabling support tended to increase depending on one’s competence. However, this was less expressed than the need for enabling support of the family. Those conclusions are significant in terms of the development of collaboration based on personal relationships and supervision. |
| Published |
Uppsala : Foundation Rehabilitation Information |
| Type |
Conference paper |
| Language |
English |
| Publication date |
2011 |
| CC license |
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