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SUPERVISION DEVELOPMENT IN LATVIA: ATTITUDE OF CONSUMERS TOWARD SUPERVISION
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The demand for supervision is currently developing rapidly globally and in Latvia. Since 2014, the profession of a supervisor/consultant, monitor appears in the section of lead experts of the Classification of Professions. The Latvian Association of Supervision includes 58 certified supervisors, has published two books and numerous articles of supervision. This profession can be acquired in three institutions of higher education (RISEBA, RSU, LKrA), and two doctoral dissertations related to supervision have been defended. The aim of the study is to describe the development of the service supervision and to explore the attitudes of consumers towards supervision, by including the group of respondents recipients of service: social workers and those employed by public and municipal entities. The author made attitude survey (all three dimensions included in the survey: emotional, cognitive and behavioral) consisted of 23 statements which were evaluated on a Likert-type scale with four values. The study has led to a conclusion that supervision service rapidly evolving in Latvia and attitudes of consumers are generally positive.
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