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Liability Issues In Social Work Supervision, Frederic Reamer

Frederic G Reamer

Supervision is recognized widely as a central role in social work practice. Beginning with the work of the Charity Organization Societies in the nineteenth century, supervision has been the principal means for transmitting professional knowledge and skill from the experienced to the inexperienced, from the trained to the untrained, and from field instructor to student. Although social workers have learned significantly more about pedagogical and technical aspects of supervision in recent years, one important aspect of the supervisory role has been neglected: liability risks faced by the social work supervisor. Until recently, a lawsuit against a mental health professional was …