GOOD SUPERVISION OF ENTRY-LEVEL SOCIAL WORKERS IN SINGAPORE FAMILY SERVICE CENTRES
SOH JUN YEN DOMINIC
SOH JUN YEN DOMINIC
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In international literature, supervision has been widely regarded to be key to
supporting entry-level social workers in the process of the development of their
competencies, professional identity and ethical social work practice. This is no
different in Singapore. With supervision esteemed as crucial, whether
supervision for entry-level social workers is good or poor becomes critical. Using
Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis, this study aimed to investigate good
supervision experiences of entry-level social workers in Family Service Centres in Singapore. This was done by investigating along two bases of enquiry of: construct and experience. Based on O’Donoghue, Wong & Tsui’s (2018)
Evidence-informed model, 5 empirically-based categories were translated into
interview domains for the study. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with
7 entry-level social workers from Family Service Centres. To summarize the findings; (1) elements in good supervision; (2) the processes of how good
supervision were formed; (3) the experiences within good supervision; and (4)
the outcomes of good supervision, were elicited. To integrate the findings derived from the construct and experience of supervision, the Amalgamated
Construct-Experience Supervision model was proposed. Finally, future research
directions and implications on social work practice and policy were discussed.
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2020-10-26
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