Abstract
This paper presents the results of qualitative research in terms of supervision in social work organizations during the COVID-19 pandemic. The data were collected by applying an interview guide, to which 22 social workers responded. The results of the research refer to how the measures taken during the pandemic affected social workers. It is also presented to what extent the supervision done within the organizations responded to the needs of social workers in this period of crisis. This research confirms the fact that supervision is an indispensable activity in social work organizations, especially in Romania, where, as a professional activity, it is still in the beginning.
Highlights
Social work requires vocation, involvement, and professionalism
This paper presents the results of qualitative research in terms of supervision in social work organizations during the COVID-19 pandemic
If vocation is an aptitude, a calling, an affinity with a certain field of activity or with a certain profession, and if involvement mostly depends on the amount of professional passion each social worker invests in the process, when discussing professionalism, we refer to a broader concept, which is built over time and which involves both a solid theoretical basis, and practice and experience
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Involvement, and professionalism. If vocation is an aptitude, a calling, an affinity with a certain field of activity or with a certain profession (https://dexonline.ro/definitie/voca%C8%9Bie), and if involvement mostly depends on the amount of professional passion each social worker invests in the process, when discussing professionalism, we refer to a broader concept, which is built over time and which involves both a solid theoretical basis, and practice and experience.Social work implies “learning the art and science of social work” and it “involves several domains of competency and requires development of a metacognitive-level intellectual space within which competing theories and strategies may be held and assessed for use in a given situation.” (Garner, 2011, p. 259).In social work, as in other areas of humanities, learning is an ongoing process. Social work implies “learning the art and science of social work” and it “involves several domains of competency and requires development of a metacognitive-level intellectual space within which competing theories and strategies may be held and assessed for use in a given situation.” The constant development of social workers, known as continuous professional training, is part of what supervision in social work involves and I shall look into this matter in the following paragraphs. For many years, in Romania there have been discussions regarding the need to supervise social workers – relevant studies being conducted in this respect – the Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Braşov Series VII Vol 14(63) No 2 - 2021 supervision process has only recently been perceived as a useful and specific concept related to social work, by introducing the Occupation of Supervisor in Social Services within the Classification of Occupations in Romania by Government Order 198/2017, with the code 263513
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