A strengths perspective on supervision of social workers within a social development context : a best practice vignette

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dc.contributor.authorEngelbrecht, Lambert K.
dc.date.accessioned2014-06-09T12:43:13Z
dc.date.issued2013-11
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dc.descriptionEngelbrecht, L. K. 2013. A strengths perspective on supervision of social workers within a social development context : a best practice vignette in Lawler, J. & Hafford-Letchfield, T. (eds). Perspectives on management and leadership in social work. Whiting & Birch Ltd. 67-81.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractINTRODUCTION: Th e emergence of new public management measures as an operationalisation of neoliberal ideas is evident in various social work contexts all over the world. Consequential changes in conditions of service delivery, control and accountability create an infusion of supervision mechanisms for bureaucratic standardisation in social service delivery; and have the potential to exchange the traditional client-practitioner relationship for marketisation, resulting in a buyer-seller relationship (Bradley et al, 2010; Hughes and Wearing, 2007). Indeed, this growing global discourse has an immense impact on management and leadership practices in social work as welfare organisations and social workers are subjected to ever increasing performance pressures, exacerbated by a dominant defi cit-based work orientation (Engelbrecht, 2010). Th ese stressors, coupled in many instances with a traditional Western paternalistic and imperialist male worldview of social work supervision (O’Donoghue, 2002) as imbedded in the management and leadership models employed at social welfare organisations, need to be addressed by a critical theory beyond a defi cits approach as an interpretative framework.en_ZA
dc.description.versionPublishers' Versionen_ZA
dc.embargo.lift2050-12-31
dc.embargo.terms2050-12-31en_ZA
dc.format.extent15 p.
dc.identifier.citationEngelbrecht, L. K. 2013. A strengths perspective on supervision of social workers within a social development context : a best practice vignette in Lawler, J. & Hafford-Letchfield, T. (eds). Perspectives on management and leadership in social work. Whiting & Birch Ltd. 67-81.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issnISBN-10: 1 861770 88 X
dc.identifier.issnISBN-13: 978 1 861770 88 2
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/86882
dc.language.isoen_ZAen_ZA
dc.publisherWhiting & Birch Ltden_ZA
dc.rights.holderLawler, J.en_ZA
dc.rights.holderHafford-Letchfield, T.en_ZA
dc.subjectSocial work administration -- South Africaen_ZA
dc.subjectSocial workers -- Supervision of -- South Africaen_ZA
dc.subjectSocial service -- South Africaen_ZA
dc.titleA strengths perspective on supervision of social workers within a social development context : a best practice vignetteen_ZA
dc.title.alternativePerspectives on management and leadership in social worken_ZA
dc.typeChapters in Booksen_ZA
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