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University of South Australia
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Publisher: Wiley
Date: 12-2004
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 29-12-2017
Abstract: This article explores how nine lesbian women in Australia embody and imagine ‘home’. Using visual methodology, each woman was invited to bring along an artefact and tell a story about how it represents home for her. The methods for producing the data involved a focus group and in idual interviews. Following a school of thought known as the sociology of emotions, the data were analysed for insights connected to participants’ emotions. The study highlights the importance of the internal journey in how these women primarily embody and imagine home.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-2013
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 20-11-2008
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-05-2201
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 17-08-2022
DOI: 10.1002/AJS4.178
Abstract: “Forgotten Australians” are the estimated half a million children who were placed in institutional care in Australia from the 1920s to the 1980s. Increasing numbers are entering older age but many are poorly positioned to age well and with the supports they need. This is often because the lasting effects of childhood institutional care have contributed to poor housing outcomes, including housing insecurity, reliance on social housing, prevalence of rental stress and experiences of homelessness. This paper presents a review of the evidence on the housing experiences and outcomes of people who spent time in childhood institutional care. The evidence review was complemented by qualitative interviews with community service practitioners and representatives of advocacy groups. Based on the prior evidence and fieldwork, we identify data and service gaps that are likely to undermine the capacity of the housing and aged care sectors to improve the care and supports available for Forgotten Australians. We suggest potential improvements to service delivery for people who experienced institutional care as children and directions for further research. This paper contributes to a stronger evidence base around the housing and care needs of Forgotten Australians in mid‐ and later life.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 18-05-2023
DOI: 10.1177/00208728221094420
Abstract: This article provides new social work knowledge about the parenting practices of Papuan parents, which includes their perceptions of marriage and having children. This qualitative ethnographic study included participant observation and in idual semi-structured interviews with 49 Papuan parents (34 mothers and 15 fathers), who were interviewed across five different Papuan regencies: Supiori, Jayapura, Jayawijaya, Boven Digul and Mimika. A key finding was that communal parenting and having multiple children were perceived to be a community responsibility, which burdened Papuan women who were continuously occupied in childbearing and rearing.
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 25-07-2014
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2015
DOI: 10.1016/J.JAGING.2015.07.003
Abstract: This paper explores how the residential aged care sector could engage with residents' sexual expression and intimacy. It is informed by a study of 19 aged care staff members and 23 community members, and initially designed on the principles of Appreciative Inquiry methodology. The data were collected through focus groups and interviews and analyzed using discourse analysis. We found that staff members mainly conceptualize sexual expression as a need to be met, while community members (current and prospective residents) understand it as a right to be exercised. We conclude that the way in which sexual expression is conceptualized has critical implications for the sector's engagement with this topic. A 'needs' discourse informs policies, procedures and practices that enable staff to meet residents' needs, while a 'rights' discourse shapes policies, practices and physical designs that improve residents' privacy and autonomy, shifting the balance of power towards them. The former approach fits with a nursing home medical model of care, and the latter with a social model of service provision and consumption.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 21-04-2016
DOI: 10.1002/9781118663219.WBEGSS010
Abstract: Homelessness is a gendered issue. However, homelessness has been conceptualized and responded to using a male‐centric lens that stereotypes gender and does not always make explicit gender, race, and class differences central to the phenomenon of homelessness. Feminist theorizing questions masculinized definitions of homelessness. Intersectional feminism highlights that gender intersects with other social categories, such as class, ethnicity, race, religion, age, sexuality, and ability, to shape the experiences of men and women who are defined as homeless.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 25-09-2015
Abstract: This article explores the discourses employed by social work educators in their constructions of social work identity, practice and education. The research data for this qualitative study was collected from in-depth interviews with social work educators from two South Australian universities, who were eligible for membership with the Australian Association of Social Workers. Using Gee’s discourse analysis framework, the key discourses used by social work educators to construct social work, social workers, clients and social work educational institutions are identified. Social work educators drew on professional, helping/caring, emancipatory and social control discourses to highlight the ‘typical’ story of ‘social work’ and construct social workers and social work educators as ‘a who doing a what’, to distinguish social work from other professions. Despite being constructed as having the power to act as ‘gate keepers’ to the profession, very little research examines how social work educators reflect on their practice as social workers and social work educators. Further national and international research is required to examine how social work students, service users, employers and other disciplines interpret these social work discourses.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 02-09-2021
Abstract: A range of service providers support mothers and children who are experiencing domestic violence (DV). However, research tends to focus on the role of service providers in child protection services and DV services. This potentially excludes valuable insights from a wider range of nongovernment service providers on the systemic issues that mothers experiencing DV and child separation may experience. This research explored the perspectives of 16 different nongovernment service providers about working with women who have had their children removed while experiencing DV. The study used an intersectional feminist approach that highlighted intersecting gendered and racialized power relations in service responses functioning to reinforce multiple dimensions of disadvantage. The study found that mother blame was a pervasive issue both within and outside of child protection services. Service providers described the challenges of navigating a system that revictimizes women, with particular impacts for Aboriginal and culturally erse mothers. The findings reinforced the importance of preventing mother blame, holding perpetrators of DV more accountable, and improving collaboration across services and for more flexible responses to women living with violence.
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 25-11-2016
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 21-06-2021
DOI: 10.1177/14733250211025086
Abstract: This study draws on Carol Bacchi’s What’s the problem represented to be? (WPR) framework, to deconstruct policy discourses of women’s alcohol consumption. It examines Australian policies such as in the National Alcohol Strategy (2019–2028) and Australian Guidelines to Reduce Health Risks from Drinking Alcohol ( NHMRC, 2009, 2020 ). It found that policy discourses particularly focus on the effects of women’s alcohol consumption as ‘harms’ to unborn children, by emphasising women’s assumed reproductive roles, such in pregnancy and when breastfeeding. Social policy tends to reproduce medicalising and normative gendered discourses about women’s alcohol consumption, with disempowering effects on women. This discourse analysis of drug and alcohol policies can contribute to broadening how social workers understand policy representations and the effects of policy discourses on women. The disciplinary power of the medicalisation and acceptable/unacceptable categorisation of women’s alcohol consumption means that women can internalise shame and stigma, which is often an obstacle for women attempting to seek assistance. More research is needed about how social workers can co-design policies and research projects with women of erse sexualities and cultural backgrounds who have been subjugated by these policy discourses.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 31-07-2014
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 29-01-2016
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 29-09-2016
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 13-08-2009
Abstract: Social workers’ bodies and identities are gendered. This article examines gender relations in social workers’ accounts of their practices using data from a qualitative study that focused on social workers’ responses to homelessness in three Australian cities. Themes in the data relate to essentialist notions of gender gender functioning as an invisible form of oppression heterosexual assumptions in client—worker relationships and the preferability of feminist approaches, particularly when working with women’s homelessness that is a result of domestic violence.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 27-07-2016
Abstract: Intimate partner violence (IPV) is an extreme ex le of gender inequality that compromises women’s citizenship. This article discusses the effects of IPV on women’s housing circumstances based on the findings of a large national Australian survey. The analysis found that IPV erodes women’s citizenship, which includes their access to safe and affordable housing, connections to “home,” and participation in community life. Drawing on notions of gendered citizenship, this article provides new understandings about how women negotiate housing as a key dimension of citizenship in the context of IPV.
Publisher: Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI)
Date: 10-2019
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 20-07-2017
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-2011
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2015
Publisher: Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI)
Date: 03-2020
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 2010
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 17-05-2013
Abstract: In this article I critically reflect on how white power and privilege constitutes my personal power and professional experiences as a social work practitioner and social work educator in Australia. I explore my white privilege in the context of the colonization of Australia and social work practice in child protection.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-11-2016
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 10-2019
Abstract: Home and belonging are emerging areas of social work research. Very few studies in the social work discipline critically examine how home is broadly experienced or understood. Whilst the notion of home is contested, social work researchers can explore meanings of home in their quest to understand how social workers can contribute to developing a sense of community and belonging. This article presents the findings of an intersectional qualitative study that explored meanings of home in a capital city of Australia, drawing implications for social work. A thematic analysis of 13 semi-structured interviews found that home was experienced as both a material and emotional place. Home was associated with (1) the material security of housing, including homeownership and the safety of suburbs and neighbourhoods (2) a connection to multiple homes and the making of home in migration, such as when re-settling in a new country (3) belonging to a family, including emotional connections to lost family members or acknowledging a supportive family and (4) religious, ethnic and cultural self-expression. This paper argues that researching meanings of home is relevant to social work as a discipline that espouses human rights and social justice because a sense of home is central to the politics of belonging to a safe community and society.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Date: 2016
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 08-04-2012
Abstract: • Summary: Professional social work identity emerges from particular historical, sociopolitical and organizational contexts. This article examines social work practices and identities in the context of Australian social work responses to homelessness. It draws on historical and contemporary literature and a qualitative study that interviewed 39 social workers employed in the area of homelessness in Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney, Australia. • Findings: The findings of this research indicate that social workers employed in the field of homelessness constructed their professional identities by drawing on historical debates in social work literature including structural and/or in idual approaches to social problems, as well as by reflecting on the personal and professional tensions that arise from their practice contexts. It also found that professional social work identity is overshadowed by managerial organizational contexts, influencing social work practice in the field of homelessness. • Application: Debates have existed about social work identity since its inception. A critically informed approach to social work research, practice and literature provides significant insights into the challenges faced by social workers in this new and emerging area of practice and enables social workers to question social inequalities that disadvantage people experiencing homelessness. Further research is needed to identify differences and similarities between Australian and international social worker experiences in homelessness services.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-08-2018
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 18-11-2014
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