Supervize perception of social workers depending on the length of their practice

This diploma thesis is dealing with topic of supervision, especially with its perception by social workers depending on length of their working experience. Supervision is mostly perceived as a resource for professional growth of employees or as prevention against burnout syndrome. Regardless of how supervision is perceived, we cannot disclaim it has significant influence in area of helping professions. The goal of practical part is to describe opinions of social workers on supervision according to the length of their working experience. To find this aim out were defined two research questions: 1. How social workers perceive supervision? 2. How their opinions have been changing in the course of their working experience? For reaching out this goal was chosen qualitative strategy, method of questioning. Interviews were not controlled. The obtained data were afterwards elaborated by method of clustering. Based on the obtained results I suppose goal of this thesis was fulfilled. I found out how social workers perceive the supervision with an effort to take into account the influence of increasing working experience on that perception with taking their working experience into consideration. Social workers perceive supervision very positively in general. As well they perceive supervision as part of their profession. The supervision is perceived more negatively during the high school or university studies. However opinions of respondents on supervision were not significantly changeable during working experience. Results of this diploma thesis may be used as informational material for employers which are responsible for provision of supervisions in social services organisations. As well may this thesis be a resource of interest for social workers who are unsatisfied with supervision and have negative attitude to it