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0000-0003-3264-6933
Current Organisation
Bond University
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Publisher: Queensland University of Technology
Date: 29-07-2013
Publisher: Bond University
Date: 05-02-2023
DOI: 10.53300/001C.70233
Abstract: In Australia, family reports are an influential expert assessment of a family usually undertaken in contentious family law parenting matters by social workers or psychologists, known as family report writers. This article presents findings from in-depth interviews with 10 private family report writers about their experience of undertaking assessments, particularly in cases where domestic and family violence is alleged. The study reveals a number of concerns that mirror the findings of previous Australian and international research in this area. For ex le, concerns were raised about the quality and efficacy of training and access to other resources, professional isolation, the efficacy of the family report assessment process, and ergence in understandings of domestic and family violence. A critical issue raised in the study relates to the pro-contact and co-parenting culture of the Australian family law system, which can significantly impact the family report writing process and may have repercussions for the safety of victims of domestic and family violence and their children. Responding to and drawing from the family report writers’ lived experiences, we offer suggestions for reform that aim to improve the efficacy of the family report assessment process and therefore the justice and safety of outcomes in matters where a family report is deemed necessary.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 23-03-2015
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 03-2016
Publisher: Queensland University of Technology
Date: 16-12-2019
Abstract: Research confirms law students and lawyers in the US, Australia and more recently in the UK are prone to symptoms related to stress and anxiety disproportionately to other professions. In response, the legal profession and legal academy in Australia and the UK have created Wellness Networks to encourage and facilitate research and disseminate ideas and strategies that might help law students and lawyers to thrive. This project builds on that research through a series of surveys of law teachers in the UK and Australia on the presumption that law teachers are in a strong position to influence their students not only about legal matters, but on developing attitudes and practices that will help them to survive and thrive as lawyers. The comparative analysis reveals several differences, but also many similarities with law teachers in both countries reporting negative effects from neoliberal pressures on legal education programs that impact their wellbeing, performance as teachers and ability to adequately respond to student concerns.
Publisher: Queensland University of Technology
Date: 03-08-2015
DOI: 10.5204/JLD.V8I2.238
Abstract: class="p1" em Empirical evidence in Australia and overseas has established that in many /em em university disciplines, students begin to experience elevated levels of /em em sychological distress in their first year of study. There is now a considerable /em em body of empirical data that establishes that this is a significant problem for /em em law students. Psychological distress may h er a law student’s capacity to /em em learn successfully, and certainly hinders their ability to thrive in the tertiary /em em environment. We know from Self-Determination Theory (SDT), a conceptual /em em branch of positive psychology, that supporting students’ autonomy in turn /em em supports their well-being. This article seeks to connect the literature on law /em em student well-being and independent learning using Self-Determination /em em Theory (SDT) as the theoretical bridge. We argue that deliberate instruction /em em in the development of independent learning skills in the first year curriculum /em em is autonomy supportive. It can therefore lay the foundation for academic and /em em ersonal success at university, and may be a protective factor against decline /em em in law student psychological well-being /em
Publisher: Queensland University of Technology
Date: 17-06-2010
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-10-2014
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