Rethinking social work supervision: is a ‘radical supervision’ model possible?

Professional supervision is considered a key aspect of effective social work practice. In much the world, front-line practitioners prioritise as essential to ensuring supportive working environment. This crucially case while in ethically and politically contentious environments (such with refugees). Despite its centrality practice, access professionally meaningful nowadays seen by employers ‘luxury’, rather than an integral part On many occasions, responsibility for accessing paying delegated practitioners. Different models have been proposed over years. article provides unique reflection on creation function ‘radical supervision’ approach, developed academics Greece deal complex professional emotional dilemmas that emerged context refugees. By supervision’, participants authors refer non-hierarchical, peer-support model also prioritises collective action mobilisation regards structural challenges, thus departing from traditional individualistic approach supervision. The group consisted seven two academics. All worked field refugee services. supervisory met regularly period eight months December 2020 July 2021. followed principles participatory research analyse report findings reflections, analysis, well procedure per se, were based liberation health model.