Annual of social work, Vol. 18 No. 2, 2011.
Review article
ETHICAL RULES IN SUPERVISION
Maca Cicak
; Social Care Centre Zagreb, Pešćenica office
Abstract
Supervision is a helping practice which is an ethical activity itself. Its main participants, a supervisor and a supervisee establish a very personal and delicate cooperation relationship essentially marked by support, confidentiality, openness, closeness and delicateness. In order to meet its purpose it should be performed within a clear value framework. There are several approaches to ethics in supervision, and one of them being the code of ethics model. It includes ethical rules, principles and standards which lead a supervisor in the decision-making process and behaviour in challenging situations such as: individual approach, self-determination of a supervisee in processing supervision questions, disclosure of confidential data, acquaintance and cooperation of a supervisor and a supervisee outside the supervision and similar. This paper creates a link between supervision and ethics, it attempts to articulate an ethical framework applicable in everyday supervision practice, gives a concise presentation of individual ethical rules (for instance: self-determination, welfare, trust, mutual relationship, informed consent) and describes adherence to them or their violation in the supervision relationship.
Keywords
supervision; ethical values; ethical rules
Hrčak ID:
74081
URI
Publication date:
18.11.2011.
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