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ABSTRACT
The use of “dual supervision” is unique to social work education. Instead of one primary supervisory relationship between the student and field instructor, social work education involves three relationships: student-field instructor, student-faculty liaison, and faculty liaison-field instructor. By applying Murray Bowen's work in the development of family triangles to the field work triad, this paper explores the dangers in the development of triangular relationships between members of the field triad. Faculty liaisons are encouraged to take responsibility in preventing the formation of such triangles by (1) helping field education programs identify clear role expectations for the faculty liaison, (2) avoiding long-term assignment to the same field agencies, (3) better training for the faculty liaison role, and (4) training for students in appropriate use of the supervision.
