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The supervisor as a secure base in child protection practice - not so strange!!Download this presentation - 548KB PDF AuthorsSue Hanna & Shirley Anne ChinnerySpeakersSue Hanna & Shirley Anne ChinneryOrganisationCentre for Social Work University of AucklandDepartment of Child Youth and Family Services Frontline statutory social work is tough and stressful. The dangerous dynamics that can develop in client, collegial and interagency relationships in child protection practice have been well documented. Regular supervision has been identified as key to ensuring professional accountability, practice competence and promoting practice safety. The social work profession is largely female dominated, and social work often attracts people whom have themselves experienced childhood adversity and have a desire to make a positive difference to the lives of others. An understanding of attachment theory is considered essential to the repertoire of skills and knowledge required by social workers working with in the areas of Child Protection practice. Attachment as pattern of organising behaviour has been acknowledged as life long and it has been suggested that attachment styles also impact behaviour in the work place. Supervision is a primary and significant work place relationship constructed between two people, often tired, often in stressful circumstances, and then charged with processing emotionally traumatic material. This paper will unpack the emotional minefield that is supervision. It will also suggest that attachment theory and insights about the psychology of women posited by feminist psychologist Carole Gilligan will better assist both supervisors and prevailing supervisory paradigms to respond more effectively, and creatively to the issue of dangerous dynamics in supervisory practice. PresentationPaperBiographySue HannaSue Hanna is a Senior Social Worker at the Centre for Social Work at the University of Auckland. Her specialist subjects are Family violence and Child Protection social work. To maintain links with practice Sue also works regular shifts at the Department of Child Youth and Family Services as a frontline social worker at the National Call CentreShirley Anne ChinneryShirley Anne Chinnery is a senior lecturer at the Centre for Social Work and the University of Auckland. Shirley Anne's specialist areas are in Attachment Theory and Supervision. In addition to teaching on the Bachelor of Social Work Programme she also teaches on the Post Graduate diploma in Supervision. |
