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- Title
How Perceptive Are You As a Case Supervisor?
- Authors
Kendrew, Mary Hylan
- Abstract
The article focuses on the relationship between case supervisors and workers. Perceptiveness of a case supervisor includes the awareness of a worker's mood as he moves about the facility. A worker who is happy about his work and enjoys it has a tendency to proclaim it for all to see. Minor failures and momentary disappointments do not etch themselves into the bearing of the worker whose agency relationships are satisfactory. Facial expressions suggestive of depression can be indicative of a need for the supervisor to evaluate carefully the quality of the supervisory relationship and the methods used. An error that is easily made is to expect that the structure of the conference will carry and substitute for lack of adequate relationship. In other words, one may be confused with the other through lack of realization that the two are quite distinct and serve different purposes. A supervisor will need to evaluate the extent to which she is able to "do what comes naturally" and to what extent, being unable to, she foists responsibility onto structure.
- Subjects
SUPERVISORS; SUPERVISION; INTERPERSONAL relations; SOCIAL case work; FACIAL expression; MEETINGS; PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
Social Work, 1956, Vol 1, Issue 4, p62
- ISSN
0037-8046
- Publication type
Article