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0000-0002-5966-6400
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Flinders University
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University of Technology Sydney
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Publisher: Intellect
Date: 10-2013
DOI: 10.1386/CC.1.1.23_1
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 07-12-2022
DOI: 10.1177/10497323221144923
Abstract: Adverse childhood experiences, including childhood sexual abuse, have significant immediate and lifelong effects including higher risks of alcohol and other drug use and contact with the criminal justice system. The concept of trauma to describe adverse experiences and later behaviours provides potential to reshape prevention and responses for victims. We draw on survivor accounts to a national enquiry, the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, to examine the ways in which trauma is narrated in adverse childhood experiences, alcohol and other drug use and contact with the criminal justice system, and how trauma is interpreted by others in the context of policy and legal findings. These accounts showed damaging and unjust experiences of childhood, which were compounded by subsequent contact with the criminal justice system. Trauma seems to be important to both the experienced narrated by survivors and the synthesising of these experiences into narratives. National enquiries play important roles in listening to survivors and advocating for reform. There is a risk, however, that they will fail to result in substantive change, and function primarily as a forum for bearing witness to trauma, but not preventing it.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 04-09-2023
DOI: 10.1111/BLD.12549
Publisher: Social Policy Research Centre, UNSW Sydney, Sydney
Date: 2018
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-06-2023
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 28-09-2023
Publisher: University of Technology, Sydney (UTS)
Date: 13-11-2019
Publisher: University of Technology, Sydney (UTS)
Date: 1970
Abstract: The settler community must negotiate the difference of the stranger and the melancholy and violence of a past haunted by colonization and death. Through writing the details of everyday contact in a walk across the city this essay explores notions of community. It owes much to the writing of Linnell Secomb who writes of the haunted nature of the settler community in the Australian context. Secomb writes of community through the ideas of Jean Luc Nancy where community is a process of negotiation of difference, a listening to the unfamiliar other in conflict and acceptance. The work of Alphonso Lingis and Richard Sennett has informed my ideas of the stranger and the city while Kim Scott’s “Benang” has influenced how I think and write about the echo of the past in the present. These theoretical interruptions punctuate this writing of negotiating community.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 21-03-2023
DOI: 10.1080/09638288.2022.2049377
Abstract: This study explored the experiences of people with acquired brain injury and their families during the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on how they maintained their communities and sense of belonging, the strategies they found helpful, and advice they have for improving service provision and community connectedness. Semi structured interviews with pictorial mapping were conducted with ten adults with ABI and six of their family members. Participants responded to recruitment information circulated by a state-wide ABI peer support network in South Australia. Four primary themes were identified from the findings: (1) disruptions to routine (2) social isolation (3) using technology and (4) strategies for staying safe and keeping well. Results are discussed using a social and urban geography lens and a conceptual framework of belonging to explore the experiences of people with ABI and their communities. The study reinforces the role of robust peer/support networks to stay connected, stay well and support others. Government, health services and community groups must provide clear and accessible information and supports, and regularly reach out to ensure the safety and wellbeing of people with ABI and their families during the pandemic.IMPLICATIONS FOR REHABILITATIONPeople with acquired brain injury and their families experienced increased challenges to maintaining contact with their communities during the COVID-19 pandemic.The main challenges were disruptions to routine, social isolation, and use of technology for health, therapy and social contact.Strategies to support people with ABI to maintain connections, stay engaged, and access technology and information to stay safe and well during lock-down are presented.
Publisher: Social Policy Research Centre, UNSW Sydney, Sydney
Date: 2018
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2010
Publisher: Social Policy Research Centre, UNSW Sydney, Sydney
Date: 2018
Publisher: Social Policy Research Centre, UNSW Sydney, Sydney
Date: 2018
Publisher: Social Policy Research Centre, UNSW Sydney, Sydney
Date: 2018
Publisher: Social Policy Research Centre, UNSW Sydney, Sydney
Date: 2018
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Date: 05-2021
DOI: 10.1332/174426421X16143457505305
Abstract: The paper draws on empirical evidence from a project investigating service responses to disabled women and children experiencing domestic and family violence (DFV). Service provision in these sectors is often rationed due to resource constraints, and increasingly marketised, and disabled people often do not have their needs met. Their opportunities for participation in policy and practice are also constrained. Our aim is to bring critical studies of intersectionality into dialogue with ‘evidence-making’ scholarship on policy implementation, to allow for new analyses of the inclusion of lived experience expertise in policy. What are the potential drivers for new forms of practice and evidence making in policy and service settings? The multi-method study comprised literature and policy review and qualitative research about the experience and implementation of an early intervention violence prevention support programme. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with mothers (n=27) and children (n=7), and service providers (n=28). Many mothers did not identify as disabled, although they discussed the effects of impairment. However, children were all diagnosed, and diagnosis was a means of accessing funding and services. The service was focused on brokering responses to family needs, and formal participation mechanisms for clients were not prioritised. Resource constraints and workforce capacity are ongoing concerns in the disability and violence prevention sectors. Relationships that facilitate trust, agency and choice remain key. Insights from critical policy scholarship suggest opportunities to recognise existing relationships as participation, with implications for policy and practice.
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