SOCW-6520: Social Work Field Education III
Week 4: Role of Supervision response to 3 colleagues
Refer to the topics covered in this week’s resources and incorporate them into your blog.
By Day 3
Respond to the blog post of three colleagues in one or more of the following ways:
• Validate an idea in your colleague’s post with your own experience.
• Share an insight from having read your colleague’s posting.
Role of Supervision
Role of Supervision at the PHP
The director of the PHP is responsible for the supervision of the MSW’s and the interns. She will provide supervision individually as well as in small groups such as staff meetings and inservices. As the director she is also responsible for the clinic nurse and the behavioral nurse practitioner. Supervision within the social work field experience is defined as the guiding and development of a person by a professional with more knowledge, skills, and experience. (Birkenmaier & Berg-Weger, 2018). The director’s role is to supervise the interns to make sure that they are learning the correct skills, addressing client barriers, successfully working with families, providing case management/discharge planning, community relations, and facilitating therapy groups with clients. The partial hospitalization program at Parkland Medical Center in an IOP (intensive outpatient program) where the clients attend group sessions for 5 and a half hours a day learning coping strategies for their behaviors. Therapeutic therapies based on CBT (cognitive behavioral therapy) and DBT (dialectical behavioral therapy) are used at the PHP and the director is responsible for maintaining that her staff, including the interns, document on all the clients and the groups that they attended for the day.
Leadership Style
My field instructors leadership style is very much a democratic style, she supports collaboration, is fair, and loves creativity. Although she has the final say, she always listens to the group and what they have to say. When it comes to clients she always will hear what the clinician has to say and talk it out with them before giving her opinion or suggestion, then will make a decision if needed to address any potential issues. Dayna is really amazing at her job, from day one she has made me feel welcomed, and has really supported me and listened while I ask a million questions. Over the last couple of weeks I have shadowed the clinicians in the groups and the end of last week and this week I was shadowed while I ran a couple of groups. For my first two I was pretty awkward, but I am feeling much more comfortable. Dayna sits with me at least an hour a week, which is usually more than that as we throw around ideas for the day and for the week to come.
Dayna’s leadership style is an excellent style to have for promoting the learning agreement as she has such a collaborative aproach to learning. The amount of information that is needed to work with groups of people that have mental illness is amazing. When I ask questions about why we do things one way she has great answers, but will then turn to me and say “well, what are your thoughts? How would you handle that? or What style would you use and why?” I really appreciate that encouragement. Dayna and I have the same leadership styles which in this situation is working out incredibly well and I beleive that the definition of mentor will soon follow as we work closely together over the next few months.
Reference
Birkenmaier, J., & Berg-Weger, M. (2018). The practicum companion for social work: Intergrating class and fieldwork (4th ed.). Pearson
Djelika Siby New
Posted by Djelika Siby at Wednesday, September 21, 2022 10:33:53 AM
• An explanation of the role of supervision in your field education experience
I meet at least one time every week with my field supervisor for supervision but sometimes more than one time if we have an assessment because she is the clinical director taking care of any assessment, intake, PCP, and referral. Another supervisor’s role focuses on day-to-day activities, educating and guiding me through the daily assignments, and providing feedback on how to process my duties. According to Birkenmaier & Berg-Weger (2018), supervision ensures that field education is useful and changes the experience and the supervisor gives productive, honest, and direct feedback as well as assesses my self-awareness and functioning. The supervision also focuses on different areas which are such as development and improvement. Supervisors also carry an important role of self-reflection such as stopping any boundary issues to occur, worker burnout, and protecting the employers from any violence coming from the client.
• A description of your field instructor’s leadership style and an explanation of whether the leadership style will promote your agency learning agreement during your field education experience
A field instructor’s leadership style is not far from connecting to the model of transformational leadership. A style in which the leader acknowledges essential change develops the vision of that change, drives others to act for that change, and implements the change as a team (Tafvelin, S., Hyvönen, U., and Westerberg, K. 2014). So, a leader’s guidance and trustworthiness are important for interns because that way they will develop confidence and be prepared to challenge themselves. Conversely, the transformational leader will encourage confidence in others by welcoming ideas, a creative indication, and encouraging by showing genuine willingness for the vision.
It will be useful to the agency learning agreement during the field education experience because it helps the team be successful by having the same inspiration or collaboration to make things work and focus more on the goals. Transformational leaders promote creative thinking and significant input about new ways of doing things and facilitate interest that questions assumptions, to furnish educated stimulation of their supporters. Lastly, transformational leaders give individualized consideration when coaching and mentoring.
References
Birkenmaier, J., & Berg-Weger, M. (2018). The practicum companion for social work: Integrating class and fieldwork (4th ed.). New York, NY: Pearson.
Tafvelin, S., Hyvönen, U., & Westerberg, K. (2014). Transformational leadership in the social work context: The importance of leader continuity and co-worker support. British Journal of Social Work, 44(4), 886–904. https://doi-org.ezp.waldenulibrary.org/10.1093/bjs…
Week 4 Blog Jaime Brenay New
Posted by Jaime Brenay at Tuesday, September 20, 2022 12:34:35 PM
An explanation of the role of supervision in your field education experience:
My supervisor and I meet at least once daily to talk about what we are going to do that day, what students I will be seeing and if there is any concerns that we need to discuss. We also meet at the end of the day to talk about how the day went and to debrief. There are many times that she is in a meeting with other schools in the district so I am on my own when working with certain students. We meet on Wednesdays for our one hour a week supervision, where we talk about my level of comfort and also she gives me feedback about the notes that I have been taking, which students she feels needs to be seen more often and also come up with a plan for the following week. This is also a time for us to discuss if we have students that need outside help, if we need to talk with the teachers in the building, or if we need to talk to the parents. She is very hands on when it comes to problem solving, but also hands off in a way that she has allowed me to take my own case load and let me run with it.
A description of your field instructor’s leadership style and an explanation of whether the leadership style will promote your agency learning agreement during your field education experience:
Social work educational programs delegate a major portion of the responsibility for evaluating students’ practice competence to field instructors in the practicum (Bogo, M., & et al. 2007). My supervisor has a very democratic leadership style, she is there when I have questions and need support, but has expressed that she has faith in me to meet with students and have my own case load. She has walked me through the paperwork that needs to be filled out and talked to me about what I should be addressing with each student. The supervisor-supervise relationship is an extremely important aspect of the social work students’ educational experience (Birkenmaier, J., & Berg-Weger, M. 2018). I feel like her leadership style matches the way that I would want to be a leader, so I feel like it is going to help promote the learning agreement, she worked side by side with me while finishing that assignment to help see where we might be doing something on the action list and when we wouldn’t. We were about to talk about things that weren’t typically done at the agency, and talk about ways that we could change that and create action plans for those activities. She has expressed that she wants me to succeed and wants me to know everything that she knows and then some. Knowing that she has been working in this population for over 15 years and been working with this specific grant for the past 5 years, gives me hope that when I walk away from this internship not only will I have fulfilled my learning agreement, but also that I will walk away with as much knowledge of this population as possible.
References:
Birkenmaier, J., & Berg-Weger, M. (2018). The practicum companion for social work: Integrating class and fieldwork (4th ed.). New York, NY: Pearson.
Bogo, M., Regehr, C., Power, R., & Regehr, G. (2007). When values collide: Field instructors’ experiences of providing feedback and evaluating competence. The Clinical Supervisor, 26, 99-117.
McTighe, J. P. (2011). Teaching the use of self through the process of clinical supervision. Clinical Social Work Journal, 39(3), 301-307.
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