The concepts of supervised internship and internship supervision

what does the production of knowledge in Social Work reveal?

Abstract

 In this paper, we present partial results of research conducted during a postdoctoral internship with the Graduate Program in Social Work at the Federal University of Santa Catarina. This text will discuss the first methodological procedure adopted in the research, namely, the literature review on the topic. For this review, we selected articles published in Brazilian journals specific to Social Work, classified between quality strata A1 and A4, covering the period from January 2020 to April 2024. The descriptors used for identifying the sources were: supervised internship and internship supervision. In summary, we can say that the internship is understood primarily from different perspectives: as a didactic-pedagogical activity, as training for professional practice, and as a privileged moment for the development of theoretical-practical syntheses. As for internship supervision, it is identified as a responsibility exclusive to the social worker, as a tool for monitoring and evaluating intern students, and as a curricular component that connects education and professional work. In our view, these understandings highlight disagreements about the internship and supervision when the identified perspectives are related to the principles and guidelines of the current social work training project.