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Scientific Object Identifier: http://s-o-i.org/1.1/TAS-10-78-84
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.15863/TAS.2019.10.78.84
Language: English
Citation: Nunev, S. T. (2019). Social work supervision with students as an environment for forming sensitivity towards clients and providing opportunities for change and development. ISJ Theoretical & Applied Science, 10 (78), 453-462. Soi: http://s-o-i.org/1.1/TAS-10-78-84 Doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.15863/TAS.2019.10.78.84 |
Pages: 453-462
Published: 30.10.2019
Abstract: In the article analyses the problems of social work supervision in the practical training of students as an environment in which conditions for stimulating their sensitivity to their own and to clients’/users’ thinking, feelings, actions and behaviour and the readiness for change and development are created. The research was conducted with 252 students in Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in the Social Work specialty at the University of Ruse, Bulgaria, between 2014–2018. Its purpose is to identify the respondents’ attitudes towards creating the environment and conditions in supervision in practical training to promote sensitivity to dynamic thinking, feelings, client’s/users’ experiences and those of the respondents related to them, as well as the aspiration and readiness for continuous change and development. The methodology of empirical research is pursuant to its purpose and tasks. The quantitative and qualitative analysis of empirical data reveals a dominant positive trend of students’ attitudes towards social work supervision in their practical training in the analysed field. The necessary evidence is presented in order to highlight the contribution and importance of student supervision to the realization of learning with the characteristics of facilitation, reflexivity and the provision of opportunities and resources to forming sensitivity in its various aspects and to achieve development in the process of integrating theory and practice, assimilation of experience and improving competence. The supervisor has the responsibility to create the conditions for interaction between the supervised students’ cognitive, affective, behavioural, personal and educational development. In synthesis, this contributes to the formation in students of an objective and critical attitude to their own activities, to promoting the readiness to achieve change and development, and to improve the quality and effectiveness of practical training.
Key words: supervision of social work students; attitudes towards conducted supervision; sensitivity in certain aspects; improving competence; student development; effectiveness of practical training
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