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0000-0002-2317-4981
Current Organisations
Northumbria University
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Southern Cross University
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Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 07-04-2022
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 29-10-2012
DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-2788.2012.01647.X
Abstract: This research describes issues related to human rights as they arose within the everyday lives of people in nine personal support networks that included adult Australians with an intellectual disability (ID). The research was part of a wider 3-year ethnographic study of nine personal support networks. A major criterion for recruitment was that people in these networks were committed to actively developing the positive, meaningful future of an adult family member with an ID. Data were collected from November 2007 to March 2011 via interviews, participant observations and analysed within the framework of situational analysis. Findings were checked with network members. The issue of rights was challenging to network members. Subtle rights violations could have a major impact on an in idual with a disability. Network members worked to protect the rights of people with ID by building and maintaining an empathic and respectful support network, developing the person's self-confidence and autonomy and ensuring that the person with an ID was an active member of the personal support network. The maintenance of rights within a supportive environment remains a difficult task. It can be facilitated by a deep knowledge and respect for the person being supported, the promotion of his or her active participation in the planning and provision of support, and an experimental and reflective approach.
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Ltd.
Date: 2022
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 22-01-2019
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 05-01-2023
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 22-03-2022
Publisher: Southern Cross University
Date: 2021
DOI: 10.25918/REPORT.126
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 18-05-2020
DOI: 10.1111/COBI.13494
Publisher: School of Human Services and Social Work, Griffith University
Date: 31-08-0010
DOI: 10.36251/JOSI.130
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-2017
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-2013
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Ltd.
Date: 2022
Publisher: School of Human Services and Social Work, Griffith University
Date: 30-12-2018
DOI: 10.36251/JOSI.138
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 17-07-2022
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-11-2021
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-08-2019
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 09-09-2021
Abstract: When graduates of Australian social work courses embark on a career in mental health, the systems they enter are complex, fragmented and evolving. Emerging practitioners will commonly be confronted by the loneliness, social exclusion, poverty and prejudice experienced by people living with mental distress however, social work practice may not be focused on these factors. Instead, in accordance with the dominant biomedical perspective, symptom and risk management may predominate. Frustration with the limitations evident in this approach has seen the United Nations call for the transformation of mental health service delivery. Recognising paradigmatic influences on mental health social work may lead to a more considered enactment of person centred, recovery and rights-based approaches. This paper compares and contrasts influences of neo-liberalism, critical theory, human rights and post-structuralism on mental health social work practice. In preparing social work practitioners to recognise the influence of, and work more creatively with, intersecting paradigms, social work educators strive to foster a transformative approach to mental health practice that straddles discourses.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 04-2001
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 25-09-2023
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 13-07-2020
DOI: 10.1093/BJSW/BCAA054
Abstract: Social work practitioners are called on to be resilient in an increasingly complex and challenging human service environment. This study presents the results of a systematic scoping review aimed at understanding the role of social work education in developing students’ professional resilience in preparation for their future social work practice. The application of a comprehensive search strategy resulted in the inclusion of thirty-two articles, published between 2008 and 2018. A descriptive thematic analysis highlighted the political and contextual influences on this recent and emerging body of literature, together with three key themes. These themes centred around education building resilience through screening social work applicants, targeted knowledge provision and inclusive educational processes. The findings draw attention to the emphasis on social workers being in idually responsible and accountable for their professional resilience, with this potentially reinforced and facilitated through education processes. The findings identify the need for future research to investigate environmental influences on social workers’ resilience, including how educators support students to understand and shape them.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-09-2021
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 03-03-2021
DOI: 10.1093/BJSW/BCAB038
Abstract: Internationally, the evidence about the successful design of refugee settlement programs is limited. To help address this gap, we examined staff practices within a program that aimed to advance the education, employment and empowerment of women from refugee and migrant backgrounds in communities in Northern New South Wales and South East Queensland in Australia. We engaged staff in collaborative critical reflection about their practice. Viewed through intersectionality, our findings revealed the empowering practice of staff in program design, in the ways that they worked together as a team and in their collaboration with broader supportive social networks. This practice was crucial to the program’s success and informed staff’ conceptualisation of what constituted that success. In brief, this study revealed the complex, often subtle features of professional practice that strives to be empowering in both the delivery of social service programs in this field and in the conceptualisation of program success. Future research is needed to acknowledge and support the developing practice wisdom in this field.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 06-2009
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-05-2022
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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