Maintaining front-line workers in child protection: a case for refocusing supervision

By Judith Gibbs. 2001

175 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Public Administration

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In Clinical Psychology

1. Stewart A. Collins
2. Bob Lonne
3. Eric U. Russ
4. T. Morrison
5. Y. Darlington
6. G. Kinman
7. Louise Grant
8. Sweta Rajan-Rankin

In Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

1. T. Morrison
2. Stewart A. Collins

In Public Administration

1. Stewart A. Collins
2. T. Morrison
3. Louise Grant
4. G. Kinman
5. Sweta Rajan-Rankin

Citations in the corpus

• Emotional Intelligence, Emotion and Social Work: Context, Characteristics, Complications and Contribution (2006, background): “…of social work services within integrated service delivery systems (Ehrle et al., 2004; Cm 5860, 2003); problems of recruitment and retention (Gibbs, 2001); ambivalent and confused public understanding of its role (Davidson and King, 2005); and negative perceptions particularly with regards…”
• Using Resilience to Reconceptualise Child Protection Workforce Capacity (2009, background): “Unsurprisingly, organisational responses continue to rely predominantly on individual coping through inoculation approaches and personal counselling (Bell, Kulkarni, & Dalton, 2003; Gibbs, 2001).”
• Statutory Social Workers: Stress, Job Satisfaction, Coping, Social Support and Individual Differences (2008, background): “In a qualitative study of front line child protection workers in Australia, it was found that supervision gave insufficient attention to the emotional demands of work and to the workers’ self-esteem and resilience (Gibbs, 2001).”
• The surprisingly weak evidence base for supervision: Findings from a systematic review of research in child welfare practice (2000–2012) (2013, background): “This means moving beyond a focus on task and prescription, and providing opportunities for reflective supervision, as Gibbs (2001) and Munro (2011) among others have argued.”
• Resilience and Burnout in Child Protection Social Work: Individual and Organisational Themes from a Systematic Literature Review (2015, unknown): “24 Gibbs 2001 Australia GS • Supervision – Review of practice.”
• Enhancing Wellbeing in Social Work Students: Building Resilience in the Next Generation (2012, unknown): “As well as helping social workers manage work-related stress, reflective supervision can help create space for emotional thinking and reflection upon ethical and practice-related issues, providing conditions in which practitioners can be nurtured (Gibbs, 2001; Banks, 2006; Ruch, 2009).”