Chapter 1: Introduction and Overview: Does Supervision Matter?.- Chapter 2: News of Difference in Social Work Supervision: What Works?.- Chapter 3: A Core Model of Supervision for the 21st Century: Explored and Explained.- Chapter 4: Keeping the Child in Mind, and at the Heart of Supervisory Reflections.- Chapter 5: Four Functions of Twenty-first Century Supervision; Safety.- Chapter 6: Four Functions of Twenty-first Century Supervision: Knowledge and Skill Development.- Chapter 7: Four Functions of Twenty-first Century Supervision: Management and Leadership.- Chapter 8: Four Functions of Twenty-first Century Supervision: Advocacy.- Chapter 9: Bringing it all Together, Integrating the Four Functions.
Dr Lynne McPherson is a senior lecturer, social work and social welfare in the School of Arts and Social Sciences, Southern Cross University Australia. Her publication and teaching interests are in the areas of child protection supervision, child, youth and family issues, post graduate learning and harm experienced by children in sport. She is currently involved in a major research project examining the implementation of the Integrative Model of Supervision.
Prior to becoming an academic, Lynne spent more than 25 years as a senior social work manager and practice leader in child protection and the wider child, youth and family sector. She has undertaken roles as a practitioner, manager, training consultant and senior policy advisor. For more than a decade she was senior manager of the State-wide Professional Development and Workforce Strategy Unit for the Department of Human Services, Victoria, Australia. In 1997, she was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to examine international best practice in child protection. In summary Lynne has considerable professional experience and expertise, significant leadership capability and strong national and international networks in the child protection industry.
Noel MacNamara is a social worker and has worked in
the field of child trauma and abuse and neglect for over 30 years.
He has worked in statutory and non-statutory settings in the UK and
Australia. In 2013 he was recognised for his contribution to the
field of child and family welfare by being awarded the Robin Clark
Memorial Award for inspirational leadership. For the last seven
years Noel has been the National Manager of the Australian
Childhood Foundation (ACF). The ACF is at the forefront nationally
of understanding how neuroscience can be translated into practical
applications in the areas of specialist therapeutic intervention
for traumatised children and their families, therapeutic foster
care, therapeutic kinship care, residential care programs, and
professional education initiatives. ACF has a strong reputation for
the delivery of effective, innovative and flexible trauma-informed
therapeutic services for traumatised children and young people, who
present with a complex matrix of needs and challenging behaviours
stemming from histories of multiple forms of abuse and neglect.
Noel is an author of a number of journal articles and regularly
presents at national and international conferences.
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