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Professional supervision has good goals and multiple models to practice supervision, but the process of achieving those goals is rarely smooth. Supervisors experience several dilemmas in offering supervision. This chapter will discuss six dilemmas narrated by supervisors. These are line-management supervision versus non-line-management (external) supervision, supervision in private practice, supervision via the phone and online (digital supervision), supervising social workers and non-social workers and new and experienced social workers, the role of the professional bodies in supervision, and the issue of developing qualities/character in supervisees. This chapter concludes by contemplating ways and means of resolving these and similar dilemmas.
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Pawar, M., Anscombe, A...W.(. (2022). Critical Dilemmas and Challenges in Professional Supervision. In: Enlightening Professional Supervision in Social Work. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18541-0_5
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