The Development of a Supervision Model of Social Work Practicum in Mainland China -- with Jinan Shandong as an Example.
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A myriad of problems has surfaced in supervision on social work practicum in Mainland China,from which a greater need of building teams of social work talents derives. This dissertation seeks to address the development of a supervision model of social work practicum in Mainland China. Although various developments have been made and theories have come up,collectively speaking,there is still a dearth of research on the significance of supervision on social work practicum. With the concept of social constructionism as the cornerstone,the researcher model as proposed adopts the long interview method,falling under the umbrella of qualitative research. The researcher carried out interviews with nine college supervisors,eight agency supervisors on social work practicum and nine supervisees who were undergraduate students in social work programmes from eight universities in Jinan,Shandong. This research probes into the values,goals,process,roles,relationship,authority,contradictions and the influencing contextual factors of social work practicum supervision in Mainland China. Based on the findings,the researcher develops a dynamically and contextually-oriented supervision model of social work practicum in Mainland China. This research discovers that the context influencing the social work practicum supervision in Mainland China is a "multi-layered,multi-faceted and a vigorous contextual system". The model is relational and contextual,various contexts to which the model relates include: the individual context,the institutional context,the context of society at large and national policies,and the context of international professional discourse,the physical field context,human field context and the context of knowledge. The contribution of this research lies in the fact that it fills one of the growing gaps in the study of social work practicum supervision and lays a foundation for future studies. Meanwhile,it is hoped that the proposed localized model will provide certain inspiration for present and future social work practice supervisors in Mainland China. According to this research,future studies should focus more on the "ought-to-be" aspects of social work practicum supervision,comparative studies and in-depth study of each of the factors explored in this model.