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TIINA MERKULJEVA supervision as one of the opportunities to avoid burning out. Supervision was seen to serve several purposes: (1) sharing experiences and thoughts, (2) ventilation, and (3) increasing knowledge. Supervision was seen as one way of reducing stress.’? Child protection work is essentially complicated, multi-level and low-structured. This requires a high level of competence, self-management and other skills. A child protection worker is working with its client affected by the incidents that may be emotionally and ethically complex.” FORMS OF SUPERVISION IN CHILD PROTECTION The types of supervision, which is used in child protection work is: 1) individual supervision — dyadic form of supervision, one supervisor and one supervisee. The focus is on case supervision. 2) Group supervision — the participants are from different municipalities (all of them are child protection workers). The focus is on the opportunity to supply their own topics and working with the group resources. 3) Team supervision — the participants are from the same department and the focus of supervision is on team relationships, communication boundaries, team roles, the atmosphere in the team etc’*. 4) Network supervision — the participants are from different professions and areas related with child protection field and current cases. 5) Organisational supervision — Contributes to the effective functioning of the organization. It takes place through regular and supervised contacts of superiors and subordinates, and members of professional teams. The emphasis is on reflecting the relationship between the team and the wider organizational environment, on illuminating power positions, and on institutional and subjective understanding of roles and tasks. This organizational supervision approach contributes to organizational culture. Internal supervision is supervision within an organization/by a member of the organization. External supervision is supervision by an independent supervisor not responsible for the work of the supervisees and not taking a monitoring function on the work of the supervisees.!° 2 Toros, Assessment of Child Well-being, 133-134. K. Koppel, Necessary but under-funded: the inner and outer image of social work in Estonia, Journal of Social Work, 6 (2012) 39. ECVision. Supervision and Coaching in Europe: Concepts and Competences, Vienna, ANSE, 2015, 32-39. 15 Ibid. + 180 +
