ABSTRACT
This chapter explores some of the important issues associated with support and supervision. It explains the nature of stress inherent in working with children and suggests the support and supervision needs of the worker with an emphasis on the importance of helping the worker to bring to awareness some of the unconscious processes that arise in the task of helping troubled children. Idealism coupled with dedication and concern are positive motivating forces which sustain workers in very stressful circumstances and over long periods of time. Part of the process of becoming an effective worker with children is to acquire more awareness of the nature of stress as it affects any particular individual and to adopt strategies to deal with it. The chapter investigates the support and supervision needs of the worker with an emphasis on the importance of helping the worker to bring to awareness some of the unconscious processes that arise in the task of helping troubled children.
