PROBLEMS OF SUPERVISION IN CARITATIVE SOCIAL WORK

The article deals with the specific character andmain principles of supervision in caritative social work describing the contentof the notion caritas and developmentof the caritative social work as a new profession in Latvia. The article analyses thecommon methodological sources of caritative social work and its supervision:Tradition of the social ministry of the Church, patristic anthropology, andsocial agenda of Europe. The articleemphasizes the transformative and ethical nature of supervision, and theanthropological centre of the process of supervision as a source of the professionalidentity and caritas capability. KEY WORDS: caritative social work, supervision,caritative supervision, patristic anthropology, professional identity, helpingprofessions