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ABSTRACT
Within current neoliberal discourses, critical reflection provides opportunity for innovation in social work practice. This article describes a thinking aloud process used with supervisor–supervisee dyads in community-based child welfare social work to assist critical reflection via the use of open-ended questioning and inquiry. The strength of thinking aloud permitted a deeper appreciation of how the supervision session is utilised to reflect on practice and provided a learning tool within supervision. The feedback from the dyads concurred that thinking aloud assisted in stimulating reflection, developing solutions to the key issues discussed, and was transformative in recognising areas for future development. The process of thinking aloud supports the opportunity and space for the supervisor and supervisee to articulate meaning, critically develop insight, reconstruct, and transport this into future practice. Thinking aloud offers an example of how knowledge can be co-constructed by practitioners within practice and critical reflection captured within qualitative research approaches.
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Matt Rankine
Dr Matt Rankine works as a Lecturer at the University of Auckland in Aotearoa/New Zealand and is involved in the delivery of social work theory and practice skills papers, child protection for the Bachelor of Social work and Masters (Professional) degrees and Postgraduate Professional Supervision papers. Matt has provided external supervision to a range of inter-professional disciplines for many years and has practised in social work working with children, young people and families in Aotearoa/New Zealand and in the United Kingdom.