Line Worker, Supervisor, and Manager Perceptions of Supervisory Practices and Tasks in Child Welfare

A Quantitative Analysis of Perceived Leadership Practices in Child Welfare Organizations

“…Mentorship provided opportunities to validate caseworker skills and develop weak areas of practice'' (p. 17). These findings confirmed a larger California Social Work Education Center (Cal SWEC) study that found knowledge and personal support to be the most essential indicators valued by line workers (Clark et al, 2008).…”

The Effective Child Welfare Unit Supervisor

“…S. Government Accounting Office, 2003;Zlotnik, DePanfilis, Daining, & Lane, 2005). Other research related to child welfare supervision has focused on clinical supervision (Dill & Bogo, 2009;Lietz & Rounds, 2009) and the stress and job satisfaction of the supervisor (Collins-Camargo et al, 2009;Lee & Ashworth, 1993;Regehr, Chau, Leslie & Howe, 2004;Silver, Poulin & Manning, 1997) Only a handful of studies have addressed supervisory practice in child welfare (Clark et al, 2008;Dill & Bogo, 2009;Lietz & Rounds, 2009;Rushton & Nathan, 1996). Dill and Bogo (2009) found that the organizational context of child welfare has a large impact on the quality of clinical supervision.…”

“…Limited research, however, has been done to identify the characteristics of effective supervision from the perspective of supervisors. Clark et al (2008) surveyed a large sample of line workers, supervisors and managers (n = 1,000) in one state comparing their diverse perceptions of supervisory practice. Supervisory practices and tasks were divided into four domains: professional role, personal support, knowledge, and agency support.…”

“…On the other hand, line workers ranked the need for supervisors to share work-related information and advocacy/support of workers as essential. Communication was ranked as the most essential task of the supervisor followed by promoting and developing the team and teamwork (Clark et al, 2008). Lietz and Rounds (2009) surveyed 789 administrators, supervisors and case managers as a first step toward developing a strengths-based supervisor training.…”

Promoting Outcome Achievement in Child Welfare: Predictors of Evidence-Informed Practice

“…Child welfare supervision research has grown over the last decade (e.g., Clark et al, 2008;Dill & Bogo, 2009;Giddings, Cleveland, Smith, Collins-Carmargo, & Russell, 2007;Leitz, 2008). Over time, the empirical literature has documented the influence of social work supervision on organizational, worker, and client outcomes on many levels.…”