Ethics and Supervision Process - Fundaments of Social Work Practice

The article intends to present the concepts of ethics and supervision and the importance of each of these two concepts in Romanian social work practice. Based on the idea that social work ethics can be defined in relation to its values and principles which emerge, we consider necessary to establish a conceptual definition to meet the need of knowledge of the social worker. Values and ethics are the foundation of social work mission and involved normative considerations of what should be done regarding the orientation of social work ethics. Social work is a field that is based on constitutive powerful ethical values, the social work domain being developed and improved by translating these values into principles and then into practice. Approaching social work ethics, we mention our opinion about the underlying values of social worker profession, both at constitutive as well as practical. One of instruments of the ethics implementation Supervision as an educational and training process based on providing support, training, monitoring, evaluation specialists of social work is a relatively new field of applied research in Romanian social context. In Romanian legislation, supervision was required for the first time in 2004, when the Romanian Government urged to implement this process in the minimum standards on human resources in the field of child and family protection. (C) 2013 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.