ABSTRACT This paper reports on a supervision project that aimed to enhance a child welfare agency staff’s professional competence in family-centred practice through a strength-based approach. A qualitative study was designed to explore the effectiveness and the change agents of the supervision. Purposive sampling was used. Two agency supervisors and two social workers participated the study voluntarily. The findings indicated that after the period of supervision, the staff had changed in three respects: their conceptualisation of the meaning of family work in the care context; their understanding of the importance of relationship-based interventions with families; and their development of alternative ways of practice. The agents of change from the supervision were the consultants’ modelling effect and the co-worker experience of the consultants and the social workers. This supervision approach can discern the synergistic effect of supervision on an agency’s routine supervision and balance the cultural beliefs in qing, yuan and ‘face’ embedded in the supervisory process.

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为某儿童福利机构开展的以家庭为中心的实践督导项目

摘要 本文报告了一个监督项目，该项目旨在通过基于实力的方法提高儿童福利机构工作人员在以家庭为中心的实践中的专业能力。一项定性研究旨在探讨监督的有效性和变革推动因素。使用了有目的的抽样。两名机构主管和两名社会工作者自愿参加了这项研究。调查结果显示，经过督导期后，员工在三个方面发生了变化：他们对照顾环境中家庭工作意义的概念化；他们对基于关系的干预与家庭的重要性的理解；以及他们对替代实践方式的发展。督导改变的动因是咨询师的示范效应和咨询师与社工的合作经验。这种监管方式可以看出监管对机构日常监管的协同作用，平衡监管过程中的清、元、“面”等文化信仰。