The role and importance of supervision in preventing the burnout of social workers

Abstract

Occupational burnout is a phenomenon which appears mostly among workers, whose jobs’ main goal is to provide help for other people. Too often the workers themselves are blamed for its development, when in fact it is usually unavoidable. Disappointment with your own job, leads to a decrease in effectiveness, which in turn, leads to multi- million loses. People, who are affected by burn-out, can seek help in ‘supervision’. This is a special working method which helps you to achieve set goals by having regular consultations with your supervisor and professional colleagues. This is a relatively new issue in Poland, which has become widely known only after the transformation of the political system. This method has been continually perfected over many years, taking full advantage of the theoretical knowledge about improving work efficiency.