This article discusses the issues and challenges facing social work supervision in the twenty-first century. The key issues explored concern: (1) the evolving nature of supervision and its relationship to the professionalization of social work practice; (2) the influence of changes within health and social service organizations, professions and regulatory authorities upon supervision; and (3) the influence of evidence-based practice discourse on social work supervision. The challenges arising from this discussion pertain to: (i) the need to reconstruct the theory of social work supervision to align with the plurality and diversity of supervision practices; (ii) the case for revisiting the sanctioning, mandating and regulation of supervision; and (iii) the development of a future research agenda for supervision that focuses on how supervision contributes to social work practice with clients and the social work practitioner's competence. The article concludes with suggestions regarding how social work scholars can contribute to the development of supervision both locally and internationally.

本文討論社會工作督導在21世紀面對的問題和挑戰。文中探討的關鍵問題包括：1)督導不斷變化的本質和它與社會工作實務專業化的關系；2)健康與社會服務機構、專業及監管部門內部因督導的改變而帶來的影響；3)證據為本實務的論述對社會工作督導的影響，以及其所延伸的相關挑戰：i)需要重構社會工作督導的理論以配合督導的多樣性和多元化；ii) 重新審視督導時獎懲、指令與規範；iii)發展未來督導研究的議程–集中討論督導如何有利於社會工作實務中的案主和提升社會工作實踐者的能力。文章最後就社會工作學者如何貢獻本地和國際的督導發展提出建議。

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