Abstract: As a human-caring profession, the aim and priority of supervision for social work is to ensure that social workers are always in a good working condition through promoting self-efficiency and professional resilience, so as to guarantee the quality of professional service. Supervision means super vision, great view or different insight from its original essence. Thus, supervision for social work from a perspective of empowerment focuses on enhancing confidence and ability of social workers by facilitating them to find both potential power and accessible resource and to surpass current issues. Correspondingly, the procedure of supervision for social work assists social workers to approach goals on problem-solving or performance-achieving by exploring within themselves the different layers of barriers which are hidden in current problem and having an insight into potentials and resource beyond the barriers through applying techniques of questions and dialogues between supervisor and supervised social workers.

Key words: social work supervision, empowerment, procedure of supervision