This book is a call for confident, skilled and knowledgeable practice in social work.The current managerialist agenda has restricted judgement and the exercise of discretion in the profession, and, more damagingly, has played down the social justice components of social work, as well as the responsibilities for therapeutic and change-orientated interventions. This book explores how, through strong self-leadership, social workers can both explain and demonstrate how social work can ...

This book will help experienced practitioners, newly qualified social workers and students alike to prepare for supervision. Guidelines, examples of good and bad practice and checklists make this book a useful tool for understanding what supervision means.