Towards authentic supervision of social workers in South Africa. Issue 2 (3rd July 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Engelbrecht, Lambert Karel
• Is Part Of: Clinical supervisor. Volume 38:Issue 2(2019)
• Page Start: 301
• Page End: 325
• Publication Date: 2019-07-03
• Subjects: Supervision -- social work -- South Africa -- authentication -- process model -- determinants and definition of supervision; Mental health personnel -- Supervision of -- Periodicals; Psychotherapists -- Supervision of -- Periodicals; Mental health personnel -- Training of -- Periodicals; Psychotherapists -- Training of -- Periodicals; 616.8900683
• DOI: 10.1080/07325223.2019.1587728
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0732-5223

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Supervision of social workers has been practiced in South Africa for more than half a century. A process of authentication was reinvigorated at South African tertiary institutions in 2015 to decolonize university curricula. This process included dismantling of Western-dominated theories—also in social work supervision practice. The authentication of supervision is expounded in this article as steps in a process model devised with the aim to compose determinants and a definition of social work supervision in South Africa, in order to engender future nationally relevant inquiries into the ongoing development of an authentic body of supervision knowledge and practices.