Social Work Now, Issue 35, pages 4-7.
A fundamental area of social work and supervision is emotions and the way we work with our own and others’ in an articulate and responsive way. While social workers need to be able to explain why decisions are made in theoretical or legislative evidenced ways, it could be said that the heart of social work is about recognising, utilising and working with emotions competently. It is my experience that social workers who work successfully with others are able to clearly articulate theoretical and emotional language to describe their response to situations.