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ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Public Health and Health Services | Family Care | Sociology | Family and Household Studies | Family Care | Community psychology | Comparative and Cross-Cultural Education | Sociology of family and relationships | LOTE, ESL and TESOL Curriculum and Pedagogy (excl. Māori) | Education Policy | Developmental Psychology and Ageing | Social Policy | Specialist Studies in Education | Policy and Administration | Specialist Studies in Education not elsewhere classified | Social Policy And Planning | Social and Community Psychology | Social Policy
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Families and Family Services | Families | Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Society | Social Structure and Health | Expanding Knowledge in Education | Expanding Knowledge in Psychology and Cognitive Sciences | Youth/child development and welfare | Education and Training not elsewhere classified | Learner Development | Carers development and welfare (i.e. Carers for the aged, disabled) |
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Publications
People of Diverse Genders and/or Sexualities and Their Animal Companions: Experiences of Family Violence in a Binational Sample
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 09-11-2018
Subjectivity in sexology practice and research
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-2012
Transgender young people’s narratives of intimacy and sexual health: implications for sexuality education
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 19-07-2017
Let's Go to the Movies: Filmic Representations of Gay Foster and Adoptive Parents
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 05-2011
The Disability and Diagnosis Nexus: Transgender Men Navigating Mental Health Care Services
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Date: 2017
Australian heterosexual women’s experiences of healthcare provision following a pregnancy loss
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2018
DOI: 10.1016/J.WOMBI.2017.11.002
Abstract: Despite increased awareness of the psychological impact of pregnancy loss, a lack of recognition continues with regards to women's experiences. Healthcare professionals have an important role to play in supporting women following a pregnancy loss, yet to date only a relatively small body of research has examined women's experiences with healthcare providers. This paper seeks to contribute to the literature on women's engagement with healthcare professionals by exploring the experiences of an Australian s le. Fifteen heterosexual women living in South Australia were interviewed about their experiences of pregnancy loss. A thematic analysis was undertaken, focused on responses to one interview question that explored experiences with healthcare professionals. Three themes were identified. The first theme involved negative experiences with healthcare providers, and included four subthemes: (1) 'confusing and inappropriate language and communication', (2) 'the hospital environment', (3) 'lack of emotional care', and (4) 'lack of follow-up care'. Under the second theme of positive experiences, the sub-themes of (1) 'emotionally-engaged and present in idual staff', and (2) 'the healthcare system as a whole' were identified. Finally, a third theme was identified, which focused holistically on the importance of healthcare professionals. The paper concludes by discussing the importance of training for healthcare professionals in supporting women who experience a pregnancy loss, and the need for further research to explore the experiences of other groups of people affected by pregnancy loss.
Projecting threat: Managing subjective investments in whiteness
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 08-2004
The capacity of South Australian primary school teachers and pre-service teachers to work with trans and gender diverse students
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2017
Masculinity, Injury, and Death: Implications for Anti-Knife-Carrying Messages
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 18-01-2019
Abstract: Although knives are the most common homicide instrument in Britain, factors that influence knife-carrying tolerance (i.e., the extent to which it is seen as acceptable and justified) and perceptions of anti-knife messages (i.e., slogans and posters aimed at reducing knife crime) have not been examined, which the current article will cover by featuring progressively related studies. In Study 1, 227 men took part in a study on factors associated with knife-carrying. In Study 2, 200 participants took part in an experimental study on anti-knife slogans. In Study 3, 169 men took part in a study on existing anti-knife injury posters. In Study 4, 151 men took part in a study on anti-knife CGI posters featuring an avatar with different types of knife injury. Study 1 proposes a structural equation model that shows the intercorrelations between physical defense ability, limited trust in authority, limited control over one’s status and the need for respect, and how they predict aggressive masculinity (i.e., macho culture), which, in turn, predicts knife-carrying tolerance. The model also reveals two significant latent factors: saving face inter-male competition (i.e., honor) and perceived social ecological constraints (i.e., socioeconomic limitations). Study 2 shows that the injury slogan was rated as most persuasive. Study 3 shows that the fresh injury poster was rated as most persuasive, emotional, and believable. Study 4 shows that it was the eye injury that was rated as most persuasive, emotional, and believable. The article supports protection motivation theory and offers practical insights into tackling knife crime.
Attitudes Towards Parents of Trans Children and Their Rights: An Australian Study
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 27-05-2023
DOI: 10.1007/S13178-022-00737-4
Abstract: Trans children and their parents face challenges in both their private and public lives. In terms of the latter, public attitudes toward trans children and their parents can significantly impact experiences of inclusion or exclusion, including in terms of rights. Yet, to date, while a substantive body of research has focused on attitudes toward trans people in general, lacking is a focus on trans children and their parents. The study reported in this paper involved data collected in 2021 with a convenience s le of people living in Australia, who were asked to respond to a series of vignettes featuring accounts of parents of children of different gender modalities and genders, and participants were asked to rate the parents of the children in the vignettes. Participants also completed measures about traditional views of motherhood and fatherhood, a social dominance measure, a measure of values, and a measure of attitudes towards trans rights. The findings suggest mothers were rated more negatively than fathers, those with more traditional views about mothers and fathers rated all vignettes more negatively, and those with more positive attitudes toward trans rights rated all vignettes more positively. There were no differences in ratings of parents based on the gender modality of the child however, parents of non-binary children were rated most negatively. Together, the findings suggest broad support for trans children and their parents among the s le. The findings suggest that any restrictions to the rights or inclusion of trans children and their parents would likely not align with the views of people living in Australia.
The health and well-being implications of emotion work undertaken by gay sperm donors
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 11-2009
Abstract: As reproductive health clinics both within Australia and internationally continue to face a shortfall in the number of available sperm donors, so there exists a growing demand for men willing to donate to clinics. At the same time, and where an increasing number of countries move toward legislating for the release of identifying information about donors to children conceived of their sperm, fewer men report a willingness to act as donors. This article suggests that this is at least in part caused by the considerable ‘emotion work’ involved in sperm donation. Drawing on 21 interviews conducted with gay Australian sperm donors, the article provides a thematic analysis of instances of such emotion work and explores the implications of this for the health and well-being of gay men who donate sperm both to clinics and in private arrangements.
'You don't do it in public': Racism, respectability and responsibility in Celebrity Big Brother
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 07-2011
Support for family diversity: a three-country study
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-02-2018
DOI: 10.1080/02646838.2018.1434491
Abstract: To understand levels of support for differences between families in terms of sexuality and mode of family formation across three countries. Previous research has found that attitudes towards family ersity continue to improve over time, although differences remain. Subjects were 1605 people living in Australia, the United Kingdom or the United States who completed a questionnaire which sought to explore levels of support for a erse range of family forms and modes of family formation. Religiosity, political leanings and beliefs about the importance of genetic relatedness were all correlated with level of support. Gender of participant was a predictor of level of support. Cluster analysis indicated three clusters (unsupportive, neutral and supportive) for level of support, for which both sexuality and parent status were predictors. Findings highlight the normative status of reproductive heterosex, and demonstrate the considerable value accorded to genetic relatedness.
‘If they didn’t support me, I most likely wouldn’t be here’: Transgender young people and their parents negotiating medical treatment in Australia
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 20-11-2019
Constructions of the âBest Interests of the Childâ in New South Wales Parliamentary Debates on Surrogacy
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Date: 2014
Social Representations and Identity
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Date: 2007
Developmentalism and the Rhetoric of Best Interests of the Child
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 20-07-2006
The family and romantic relationships of trans and gender diverse Australians: an exploratory survey
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-01-2015
Heteronormativity in online information about sex: A south australian case study
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 03-2013
DOI: 10.2304/CIEC.2014.14.1.72
Abstract: Whilst sex education in Australia has moved beyond a focus solely on abstinence, it is still in many instances shaped by what Silin refers to as the ‘silences' that accompany topics considered unspeakable to young people. The present article focuses specifically on one such silence, namely the representation of non-heterosexual sexualities and non-gender-normative people in the context of sex education. By focusing on three South Australian websites that act as first ports of call in terms of information about sex and sex education to young people and their parents, the analysis provided suggests that two of the three websites evoke a range of heteronormative and gender-normative assumptions, with one of these sites more explicitly emphasising reproductive heterosex, and the other adopting a liberal approach that nonetheless fails to adequately challenge stereotypes about non-heterosexuality and non-gender normativity. The third site, by contrast, provides relatively progressive inclusion of a range of genders and sexualities, and addresses homophobia and its effects. The article concludes by suggesting that websites providing information about sex to young people and their parents must make a substantive shift away from perpetuating the silencing of marginal sexualities and genders, and towards contributing to open public discussion about young people and sex.
Australian mental health professionals’ competencies for working with trans clients: a comparative study
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 26-05-2016
Understanding history as a rhetorical strategy: Constructions of truth and objectivity in debates over Windschuttle's fabrication
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2004
Speaking out on GBT men's health: a critique of the Australian government's Men's Health Policy
Publisher: IMR Press
Date: 09-2013
Public and private families: a comparative thematic analysis of the intersections of social norms and scrutiny
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2016
'25 degrees of separation' Versus the 'ease of doing it closer to home': Motivations to Offshore Surrogacy Arrangements Amongst Australian Citizens
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Date: 03-2015
Abstract: At present, onshore commercial surrogacy is illegal in all Australian states and territories. By contrast, offshore commercial surrogacy is legal in all bar one territory and two states. As a result, significant numbers of Australian citizens undertake travel each year to enter into commercial surrogacy arrangements. The present paper reports on findings derived from interview data collected with 21 Australian citizens who had children through an offshore commercial surrogacy arrangement, either in India or the United States. Framed by an understanding of the vulnerability that arises from the demand of reproductive citizenship, the analysis focuses specifically on whether or not the participants would have entered into an onshore commercial surrogacy arrangement had this been legal at the time. The findings suggest that for some participants, undertaking surrogacy ‘at a distance’ was perceived to be safer and provided a degree of privacy, whilst for other participants surrogacy closer to home would have removed some of the more challenging aspects of offshore arrangements. With these findings in mind, the paper concludes by considering Jenni Millbank's (2014) suggestion that Australian states and territories should legalise onshore commercial surrogacy, and the barriers that may exist to the uptake of such potential legal change.
“It will be hard because I will have to learn lots of English”: experiences of education for children newly arrived in Australia
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2016
Impact validity: a politics of possibilities
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 12-2013
DOI: 10.1111/JOSI.12042
The Ethics of Biomedical Tourism
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Date: 03-2015
Towards a 'non-indifferent' account of child protection
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-2008
Lesbian mothers, gay sperm donors, and community: Ensuring the wellbeing of children and families
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-2008
Gay men's experiences of surrogacy clinics in India
Publisher: BMJ
Date: 28-10-2014
DOI: 10.1136/JFPRHC-2013-100671
Abstract: While growing numbers of Australian gay men are entering into 'offshore' surrogacy arrangements in order to become parents, little empirical research has been conducted with this population. This article reports on a qualitative analysis of interviews with 12 gay men who had entered into surrogacy arrangements in India. The findings outline both positive and negative experiences in terms of support pre-conception, during the birth and post-birth. Changes to legislation in India mean that gay men can no longer access surrogacy services there, but it is important to understand the experiences of men who had previously accessed those services. The article concludes by highlighting aspects of the data that demonstrate the particular experiences of gay men who undertake offshore surrogacy arrangements, especially with regard to their need for support and involvement in all aspects of the process. A more thoroughly developed network of care may help to facilitate such support and this may further increase the positive outcomes reported by gay men who form families through surrogacy arrangements.
Gay fathers' reproductive journeys and parenting experiences: A review of research
Publisher: BMJ
Date: 19-09-2014
DOI: 10.1136/JFPRHC-2013-100670
Abstract: Over the past decade growing numbers of gay men have sought and found ways to become parents, including through surrogacy, giving birth, adoption and fostering. These modes of family formation are situated alongside pre-existing modes of family formation available to gay men, specifically in heterosexual relationships and through donating sperm to lesbian recipients. This review article summarises the literature related to each of these modes of family formation. It highlights the discrimination that gay men may face as parents and the positive outcomes both for gay fathers and for the children they parent.
People of Diverse Genders and/or Sexualities Caring For and Protecting Animal Companions in the Context of Domestic Violence
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 13-11-2018
Abstract: This article reports on a thematic analysis of open-ended questions about how humans respond to violence directed toward animals in the context of violent human relationships, derived from an Australian-U.K. survey of people of erse genders and/or sexualities. From the 137 responses, three major themes were identified: (a) animals are an important source of support, (b) humans actively protect animal companions, and (c) witnessing animal abuse can trigger leaving violent relationships. The findings offer unique insights for practitioners into the help-seeking needs of people of erse genders and/or sexualities who live with animal companions in the context of domestic violence.
Transmission of and Views About Family Values in an Australian Convenience Sample: A Mixed Methods Study
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 21-02-2023
DOI: 10.1177/0192513X231158688
Abstract: Family values operate in both immediate (i.e., familial) and broader social contexts. This study used a mixed methods approach to examine both forms of family values in the Australian context. A convenience s le of 856 people completed a measure of family values about both their own values and their perceived values of one of their parents, and a measure of familism. Using a story completion approach, a majority of the s le also responded to three story stems focused on the perceived values held by fictional families. Quantitative findings identified relationships between participant and perceived parent values in terms of gender. Participants reported high levels of familism, predicted by religiosity, age, and being a parent. Qualitative findings suggested that some participants were mindful of discrimination faced by the fictional families, but many participants also provided deficit accounts.
Educators' experiences of working in Intensive English Language Programs: The strengths and challenges of specialised English language classrooms for students with migrant and refugee backgrounds
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 21-05-2015
Abstract: In this article, educators' experiences of working in erse classrooms designed to provide English language education as part of Intensive English Language Programs (IELPs) in South Australia are considered. To this end, responses to qualitative interviews with 14 educators working in three schools are examined using Braun and Clarke's method of qualitative thematic analysis. Results indicate that the model of education provided within IELPs is seen by teachers as the best approach to educating young refugees and migrants in Australia.
Daughters and their mothers: The reproduction of pronatalist discourses across generations
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2017
On accountability: Towards a white middle-class queer 'post identity politics identity politics'
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 23-08-2010
Abstract: Writing about white middle-class queer subjectivities is a necessarily difficult task. Partly, this is because of ongoing debates over identity politics (and indeed post-identity politics), and partly because writing as a white middle-class queer always appears to invoke a particular ‘yes but’ (‘yes I am white and middle-class but I am also queer’). In this article I outline one way of engaging in a white middle-class queer praxis that takes into account these two issues, and uses them as a starting place from which to think about the intersections of whiteness, queerness and class in potentially novel ways. Drawing on the work of Jodi Dean, I elaborate what I term a ‘white middle-class queer post-identity politics identity politics’ that centres issues of reciprocity and accountability by considering the role of others in the constitution of the self. Recognizing the fundamental indebtedness that arises from this represents one means through which to negotiate a speaking position as a white middle-class queer that evokes an altogether different ‘yes but’, one that is mindful of race and class privilege.
The link between domestic violence and abuse and animal cruelty in the intimate relationship of people of diverse genders and/or sexualities: A bi-national study.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 21-04-2018
Abstract: Over the past three decades, a growing body of research has focused on experiences of domestic violence and abuse (DVA) among people of erse genders and/or sexualities. Missing, however, has been a focus on what is known as “the link” between DVA and animal cruelty with regard to people of erse genders and/or sexualities. The present article reports on a study of 503 people living in either Australia or the United Kingdom, who reported on both their intimate human relationships and their relationships with animals, including relationships that were abusive. In terms of “the link,” a fifth of respondents who had experienced violence or abuse also reported that animal cruelty had been perpetuated by the violent or abusive partner. Statistical interactions were found between having witnessed animal cruelty perpetrated by a partner, gender and sexuality, and both psychological distress and social connectedness. Female participants who had witnessed animal cruelty reported greater psychological distress and lower levels of social support, and both lesbian and bisexual participants who had witnessed animal cruelty reported lower levels of social support. The article concludes by considering the implications of these findings for future research and service provision.
Negotiating foster families: Identification and desire
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 05-02-2009
DOI: 10.1093/BJSW/BCM156
Institutional stressors and individual strengths: Policy and practice directions for working with Australian lesbian and gay foster carers
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2009
Playing at the edges: The use of playground spaces in South Australian primary schools with New Arrivals Programmes
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
Date: 26-07-2010
DOI: 10.5194/SG-5-25-2010
Role of foster family belonging in recovery from child maltreatment
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-2009
‘I Want to Bring Him from the Aeroplane to Here’: The Meaning of Animals to Children of Refugee or Migrant Backgrounds Resettled in Australia
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 19-11-2017
DOI: 10.1111/CHSO.12196
Characteristics of men willing to act as sperm donors in the context of identity-release legislation
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 18-11-2011
Abstract: Although ongoing legislative changes are important to protect the rights of all involved in assisted reproductive technologies, it cannot be guaranteed that legislation will ensure the successful operation of reproductive health clinics, as is indicated by ongoing reports of a dearth of donor sperm in clinics in some countries. Data were 1428 profiles taken from a website that aims to facilitate relationships between those seeking donor sperm and men willing to donate their sperm. Data were coded as three independent variables: age, relationship status and country, and four dependent variables: motivation to donate, willingness to be identified, willingness to be involved with children conceived of donations and beliefs about who should determine the level of involvement. Non-parametric testing indicated that men aged under 26 or over 46, and who were either single or in a same-sex relationship, were most likely to be willing to be identified to children (P< 0.05), and to desire involvement with children (P< 0.01). A significant proportion of men aged between 26 and 46 years of age (P< 0.001) were motivated by a desire to procreate and were unwilling to be identified, as were a significant number of men in opposite-sex relationships (P< 0.001). Although limited by its reliance upon a s le constituted by men living in western countries who completed a self-report profile and who had not received counselling about their potential role as donors, this study draws attention to the potential impact of age and sexual orientation upon intentions to donate.
The Role of Animals in Buffering Against Cisgenderism in and Beyond Family Contexts for Trans Young People Living in Australia
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 13-02-2023
DOI: 10.1007/S10896-023-00503-Z
Abstract: The purpose of the study reported in this paper was to explore the role of animals in buffering against cisgenderist violence experienced by trans young people. Interviews were conducted with 17 Australian trans young people and one of their parents who spoke with us about their relationships with their animals living in the home, including in terms of animals providing a protective function against the negative effects of cisgenderism. The transcribed interviews were analyzed thematically. Thematic analysis resulted in the development of three themes. First, at the psychological level, animals helped young people to combat feelings of dysphoria, wrought by the violent effects of social norms about gender. Second, at the interpersonal level, animals helped to soothe young people when they were faced with less than supportive or indeed hostile responses from family members and other people in their lives. Third, at the community level, the companionship provided by animals offered a buffer against feelings of marginalization premised on cisgenderist social norms. All three themes speak to the importance of conceptualizing violence in family contexts as more than just the obvious: as encompassing more subtle forms of marginalization that in their net effect may constitute forms of violence or microaggressions. As a counter to these subtle forms of violence, animals are thus perceived as playing an important role as confidantes, as offering a place of non-judgemental safety, and as a touchstone to the more-than-human.
The psychic life of colonial power: Racialised subjectivities, bodies and methods
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 27-10-2005
DOI: 10.1002/CASP.838
Whole-of-school approaches to supporting transgender students, staff, and parents
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-08-2017
They're all just little bits, aren't they: South Australian lesbian mothers' experiences of marginalisation in primary schools
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-2013
The desire for a child among a sample of heterosexual Australian couples
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 19-08-2016
Family Life During and Beyond COVID-19
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 07-02-2023
DOI: 10.1177/0192513X231155668
Abstract: This multi-method project examined how Australian caregivers navigated family life during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and subsequent impact on family health behaviours. Participants were invited to complete all three phases. In phase 1, 115 caregivers completed an online survey, focussed on 2020 experiences of COVID-19. In phase 2, 96 of the participants completed a use-of-time recall and 80 completed a dietary recall examining participants’ health behaviours including how they spent their time, their physical activity, and diet quality. Phase 3 involved 24 of the participants completing an online story completion task, focussed on understanding participants’ sense-making of COVID-19. Through triangulating analyses of the three phases, this project identified how poor relationship quality negatively affected families’ experiences of significant disruptions and transitions. This project provides a nuanced picture of how COVID-19 in 2020 impacted family life and highlights the importance of caregiver relationship quality for family health and wellbeing.
Imagining parenthood: the possibilities and experiences of parenthood among transgender people
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 25-06-2015
DOI: 10.1080/13691058.2015.1042919
Abstract: This paper reports on a qualitative study exploring the ways in which transgender adults imagine a place for parenthood in their lives, and/or the ways they have negotiated parenthood with their transgender identity. A total of 13 transgender adults (including parents and non-parents) were interviewed with respect to their thoughts and experiences about family, relationships and parenting. The study sought to understand the possibilities for parenthood that transgender people create, despite barriers imposed by restrictive laws, medical practices and cultural attitudes. Interview data showed how normative assumptions about gender and parenthood shape the way people imagined and desired parenthood. It also showed how participants re-appropriated and resisted normative cultural scripts by either re-imagining parenthood in different terms (such as step-parenthood) or by creating different family forms, such as co-parented families. Participants reported a variety of experiences with healthcare providers when it came to conversations about fertility preservation and family building.
The impact of pregnancy loss on men’s health and wellbeing: a systematic review
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 15-11-2017
Young white British men and knife-carrying in public: Discourses of masculinity, protection and vulnerability
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 06-07-2012
Intercountry adoption and the inappropriate/d other: Refusing the disappearance of birth families
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 04-04-2012
DOI: 10.1017/S1474746412000127
Abstract: Dominant social norms relating to families shape the lives of all people. This can have negative effects upon non-traditional families. This is especially the case in terms of adoption, where a focus solely on the adoptive family can often result in the ‘disappearance’ of the birth family. This paper explores the location of birth families in relation to adoptive families by examining a s le of children's storybooks aimed at adoptive children living with lesbian or gay parents as but one ex le of how policy makers may come to identify dominant cultural norms that circulate about birth families in the context of intercountry adoption. A number of key tropes are identified across these books, namely the ghostly presence of birth families, and the representation of birth parents as deviant (thus warranting the removal of their children).
Family matters: transgender and gender diverse peoples’ experience with family when they transition
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 21-09-2017
Hegemonic Masculinities and Heteronormativities in Contemporary Books on Fathering and Raising Boys
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Date: 03-2015
Abstract: Books published on fathering and raising boys are becoming increasingly popular. These books claim simply to describe boys and fathers. However we suggest that they make only specific identities available. We make this suggestion on the basis of a critical analysis of six books published since an initial study by Riggs (2008). In this article we extend Riggs’s analysis by identifying how the books analyzed draw upon hegemonic masculine ideals in constructing boys’ and fathers’ identities. The analysis also suggests that biological essentialism is used to justify the identities constructed. Five specific implications are drawn from the findings, focusing on understandings of males as well as females, the uptake of dominant modes of talking about males, and the ramifications of biological essentialism. The findings emphasize the need to pay ongoing attention to popular parenting books since, rather than offering improved strategies for raising boys, these books present assertions of what boys and fathers should be.
Trans young people and the media: transnormativity, agency, and social change
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 14-06-2022
Service Provider Recognition of the Significance of Animal Companionship Among Trans and Cisgender Women of Diverse Sexualities
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 07-02-2019
DOI: 10.1080/13691058.2019.1568577
Abstract: Extensive literature reveals the many health benefits animal companions can bring to the humans who live with them. However, much of this work has taken place with heterosexual and cisgender populations. To address this gap, we conducted qualitative interviews with 19 trans and cisgender women of erse sexualities in Australia who reported having significant relationships with animal companions. In this article, we explore the benefits of healthcare providers (e.g. doctors, counsellors) recognising the potential significance of interspecies companionship for the health of trans and cisgender women of erse sexualities. Findings relating to interactions with animal service providers are used to further illustrate themes of recognition and non-recognition as they relate to the women's genders, sexualities, and relationships with animal companions. In the discussion we consider some of the contextual challenges for such recognition to occur in service provision. Suggestions are then offered in relation to how providers might think about service provision which is both inclusive of all women and takes into account close connections with animal companions.
Built Pedagogy and Educational Citizenship in an Australian Alternative Learning Environment
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2023
Love and motherhood in Louis Theroux’s Mothers on the Edge
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 18-05-2020
Queer Theory
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Date: 2017
Australian lesbian and gay foster carers negotiating the child protection system: strengths and challenges
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 13-07-2011
Experiences of school belonging for young children with refugee backgrounds
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 07-2016
DOI: 10.1017/EDP.2016.9
Transitioning to Mainstream Education for Refugee and Migrant Children: A Longitudinal, Mixed-methods Study of School Engagement
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 07-2016
DOI: 10.1002/IJOP.12309
Constructions of Primary Caregiving Fathers in Popular Parenting Texts
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 13-09-2017
Abstract: Expectations and norms of fatherhood are evolving, with fathers now expected to be more involved in childcare. These changes have made it possible for a growing number of fathers to assume a primary caregiving role. Catering to these fathers, a growing number of books have been published focusing on primary caregiving fathers. The present article reports on a discourse analysis of nine such books. Four interpretative repertoires were identified, suggesting very specific ways in which it is deemed appropriate for men to take on primary caregiving. The findings emphasize the need to pay ongoing attention to popular parenting texts since, despite claims they encourage and support involved models of fathering, the books present and reproduce potentially limited accounts of fathers who are primary caregivers. As such, the findings highlight the importance of being critical of claims that fatherhood is evolving, given such evolution may be mitigated by ongoing normativity with regard to fathering.
“There’s no disenfranchisement when you’re sitting in that room”: Evaluating a South Australian loss and grief support group for foster and kinship carers
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2022
Research with Children of Migrant and Refugee Backgrounds: A Review of Child-Centered Research Methods
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 13-09-2014
Suicidality, self-harm, and their correlates among transgender and cisgender people living in Aotearoa/New Zealand or Australia
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 23-07-2020
Transgender People and Education
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Date: 2017
Making matter matter: Meanings accorded to genetic material among Australian gay men
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2018
(Un)Common Ground?: English Language Acquisition and Experiences of Exclusion Amongst New Arrival Students in South Australian Primary Schools
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 05-2011
White Australian Adoptive Mothers' Understandings of Birth Cultures and Families
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-05-2015
Transnormativity in the psy disciplines: Constructing pathology in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders and Standards of Care.
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Date: 11-2019
DOI: 10.1037/AMP0000545
Abstract: The psy disciplines (i.e., psychiatry, psychology, psychoanalysis, and psychotherapy) have played a significant role in shaping understandings of transgender people's lives in ways that are transnormative (i.e., by emphasizing one particular account of what it means to be transgender). This article documents (a) how the rise of the psy disciplines created opportunities for transgender people to access treatment (but that such access often required tacit acceptance of transnormativity), and (b) how transgender people have resisted transnormative accounts within the psy disciplines. More specifically, this article explores how both the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, and what is now the World Professional Association for Transgender Health's Standards of Care, have often enshrined highly regulatory accounts of transgender people's lives, while also changing over time, in part as a result of the contributions of transgender people. The article concludes by considering recent contributions by transgender people in terms of the use of informed consent models of care and clinical research, and highlights the ongoing marginalization of transgender people in terms of access to ethical, transcompetent care. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).
Indigenous Sistergirls’ Experiences of Family and Community
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-05-2017
Sexuality, Sexual and Gender Identities and Intimacy Research in Social Work and Social Care
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 28-03-2018
'The blighted germs of heterosexual tendencies': Reading Freud in (be)hindsight
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 28-02-2008
DOI: 10.1002/CASP.961
Parenting and Australian trans and gender diverse people: An exploratory survey
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-04-2016
Professional Carer Experiences of Working with Young People in Specialist Care Placements in South Australia
Publisher: The Centre for Excellence in Child and Family Welfare
Date: 29-01-2015
DOI: 10.1017/CHA.2014.50
Abstract: Despite the emphasis within Australian child protection upon family-based care as the preferred placement option, it has been increasingly recognised that some young people may be best served in specialist care placements, such as residential or therapeutic care. This paper presents a thematic analysis of 20 interviews undertaken with professional carers who, at the time, were working in a specialist care programme in South Australia known as In idual Packages of Care. The analysis suggests that three key issues were at stake for participants: (1) the impact of role conflict between engaging in caring relationships with young people and maintaining professional boundaries (2) the impact of additional stakeholders (such as mental health professionals) upon the stability of the placement and (3) the use of restraint as a form of behaviour management. The paper concludes by discussing the interesting relationship identified in the data between caring relationships and the use of restraint, and makes recommendations from the data for issues requiring further consideration with regard to specialist care placements.
Domestic Violence Service Providers' Capacity for Supporting Transgender Women: Findings from an Australian Workshop
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 20-09-2016
DOI: 10.1093/BJSW/BCW110
Out in Psychology: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Queer Perspectives -- Recognizing Race in LGBTQ Psychology: Power, Privilege and Complicity
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 2008
Healing from intergenerational trauma: narratives of connection, belonging, and truth-telling in two Aboriginal healing camps
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 25-09-2023
“The Contented Faces of a Unique Australian Family”: Privilege and Vulnerability in News Media Reporting of Offshore Surrogacy Arrangements
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-09-2014
Intersectionality, sexuality and psychological therapies: Working with lesbian, gay and bisexual div -- Intersecting Identities
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 04-04-2012
The transition to parenthood for Australian heterosexual couples: expectations, experiences and the partner relationship
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 22-08-2018
Teaching cultural competency for working with lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans clients
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 2010
Abstract: Whilst currently not mandated as a part of psychological studies in Australia, awareness of the mental health issues facing lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) people is necessary to provide culturally appropriate services to this population. The findings reported in this paper represent one attempt at developing a workshop for psychology students on psychological practice with LGBT people, with a specific focus on the effects of heteronormativity. Measures assessed before and after the workshop showed significant changes on attitudes, knowledge, behavioural intent, and cultural competency. It is suggested that workshops such as this may usefully contribute to ensuring that psychology graduates in Australia are aware of evidence-based practice as it pertains to working with LGBT people, and that they are able to apply this to best meet the needs of LGBT clients.
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer psychology: An introduction
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 04-2010
Abstract: This exciting and engaging textbook introduces students to the psychology of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer lives and experiences. It covers a broad range of topics including ersity, prejudice, health, relationships, parenting and lifespan experiences from youth to old age. The book includes 'key researcher' boxes, which outline the contributions of significant in iduals and their motivations for conducting their research in their own words. Key issues and debates are discussed throughout the book, and questions for discussion and classroom exercises help students reflect critically and apply their learning. There are extensive links to further resources and information, as well as 'gaps and absences' sections, indicating major limitations of research in a particular area. This is the essential textbook for anyone studying LGBTQ psychology, psychology of sexuality or related courses. It is also a useful supplement to courses on gender and developmental psychology.
Motherhood and Philosophy -- The media proudly presents; 'Lessons' from celebrity moms
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 13-08-2010
Teaching & Learning Guide for: Queer Theory and its Future in Psychology: Exploring Issues of Race Privilege
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 09-2009
All the boys are straight: Heteronormativity in books on fathering and raising boys
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Date: 09-2008
DOI: 10.3149/THY/0202.186
Experiences of separation and divorce among foster and adoptive families: the need for supportive responses
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 08-02-2017
Abstract: Separation and orce are realities faced by many families. Yet in the case of foster and adoptive families, only a small number of studies have looked at the way such experiences affect them. This article seeks to fill this gap by exploring the nature and consequences of separation and orce among foster and adoptive families in Australia and the United States. A thematic analysis of primary and secondary data collected by the authors identified three dominant themes: (1) that orcing foster families experience variable responses from service providers (2) that some adoptive parents perceive that relationship breakdowns compound adoption-related losses and (3) that some adoptees challenge the assumption that the nature and experience of separation and orce among adoptive families is unique. The article concludes by advocating for the provision of clear guidelines for foster and adoptive families experiencing separation or orce, and highlights the need for supportive community responses to help those affected.
The terms on which child abuse is made to matter: Media Representations of the Aurukun Case
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2012
Sperm donors' account of lesbian recipients: Heterosexualisation as a tool for warranting claims to children's 'best interests'
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 14-03-2014
Hegemonic masculinity versus a caring masculinity: Implications for understanding primary caregiving fathers
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 03-2017
DOI: 10.1111/SPC3.12307
Young men view things differently
Publisher: BMJ
Date: 10-05-2011
DOI: 10.1136/BMJ.D2903
'Serosameness' or 'serodifference'? Resisting polarized discourses of identity and relationality in the context of HIV
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 10-2006
Abstract: HIV promotion c aigns and common sense understandings of gay men’s identities and sexuality often depict gay men’s lives as being structured around serostatus. One outcome of this is that some gay men may feel the need to engage in practices, such as barebacking, with the intention of seroconversion. Such practices may be motivated by a desire to ‘overcome difference’, the assumption being that this is a useful way to relate to one another as gay men. In this article I examine how narratives of barebacking evidence particular neo-liberal understandings of freedom and control and the impact this has upon some gay men’s sexual practices. By drawing attention to the problems that may arise from relying on an in idualized, biologically driven discourse of ‘HIV polarity’, I propose that gay men need to critically examine how a reliance upon such polarities may only feed into stereotypical constructions of gay men’s sexuality. To counter this, I outline the notion of ‘working through difference’ and suggest that it is important to examine how practices such as barebacking may be mediated by access to privilege.
Critical kinship studies: An introduction to the field
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Date: 2016
Queer(y)ing rights: Psychology, liberal individualism and colonisation
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 07-2006
Queering evidence-based practice
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 18-01-2011
Decompensation: A Novel Approach to Accounting for Stress Arising From the Effects of Ideology and Social Norms
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 26-05-2016
DOI: 10.1080/00918369.2016.1194116
Abstract: To date, research that has drawn on Meyer's (2003) minority stress model has largely taken for granted the premises underpinning it. In this article we provide a close reading of how "stress" is conceptualized in the model and suggest that aspects of the model do not attend to the institutionalized nature of stressors experienced by people with marginalized identities, particularly lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender in iduals. As a counter to this, we highlight the importance of a focus on the effects of ideology and social norms in terms of stress, and we argue why an intersectional approach is necessary to ensure recognition of multiple axes of marginalization and privilege. The article then outlines the concept of decompensation and suggests that it may offer one way to reconsider the effects of ideology and social norms. The decompensation approach centers on the need for social change rather than solely relying on in iduals to be resilient.
Formal and informal support and counselling for embryo donation and receipt: An Australian qualitative study
Publisher: Hindawi Limited
Date: 12-12-2019
DOI: 10.1111/HSC.12926
Abstract: Despite growing numbers of people engaging in embryo donation for the purposes of family building, public access to information about the process may be limited. As such, support and counselling - both formal (i.e. through clinics) and informal (i.e. through online communities) - can play an important role in information provision. This article draws on a sub-s le of nine people from a qualitative study of embryo donation and receipt in Australia undertaken in 2017-2018. Themes developed suggest that formal support and counselling provided by clinics can be useful, though can require persistence to access and may not sufficiently address needs. In terms of informal support, themes developed suggest that sharing lived experiences in online communities can be important however, there may also be challenges associated with differing viewpoints and threats to anonymity. The article concludes with a discussion of the ongoing importance of formal support and counselling while also suggesting that informal support is an avenue requiring further investigation.
Anti-Asian sentiment amongst a sample of white Australian men on gaydar
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 02-2013
Implementing a brief E-training opportunity for mental health practitioners working with non-binary clients
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-05-2021
Representations of Surrogacy in Submissions to a Parliamentary Inquiry in New South Wales
Publisher: Philosophy Documentation Center
Date: 2012
Abstract: Whilst feminist commentators have long critiqued surrogacy as a practice of commodification, surrogacy as a mode of family formation continues to grow in popularity. In this paper we explore public representations of surrogacy through a discourse analytic reading of submissions made in Australia to an Inquiry regarding surrogacy legislation. The findings suggest that many submissions relied upon normative understandings of surrogates as either ‘good women’ or ‘bad mothers’. This is of concern given that such public representations may shape the views of those who utilize surrogacy services in ways that limit attention to the ethics of surrogacy.
An Evidence‐Based Model for Understanding the Mental Health Experiences of Transgender Australians
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-2015
DOI: 10.1111/AP.12088
Diversity in intensive English language centres in South Australia: sociocultural approaches to education for students with migrant or refugee backgrounds
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 20-04-2016
Reports of Animal Abuse in Child Protection Referrals: A Study of Cases from One South Australian Service
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 02-10-2022
DOI: 10.1002/CAR.2720
Abstract: There is a well‐established link between animal‐ and human‐directed violence. Reports of animal abuse in child protection referrals may indicate more severe cases of child abuse. Cross‐reporting of abuse is important, both in the context of child protection and animal welfare. ‘There is a well‐established link between animal‐ and human‐directed violence’
Reassessing the Foster-Care System: Examining the Impact of Heterosexism on Lesbian and Gay Applicants
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 2007
DOI: 10.1111/J.1527-2001.2007.TB01153.X
Abstract: In this essay, Riggs demonstrates how heterosexism shapes foster-care assessment practices in Australia. Through an examination of lesbian and gay foster-care applicants’ assessment reports and with a focus on the heteronormative assumptions contained within them, Riggs demonstrates that foster-care public policy and research on lesbian and gay parenting both promote the idea that lesbian and gay parents are always already “just like” heterosexual parents. To counter this idea of “sameness,” Riggs proposes an approach to both assessing and researching lesbian and gay parents that privileges the specific experiences of lesbians and gay men and resists the heterosexualization of lesbian and gay families by focusing on some potentially radical differences shaping lesbian and gay lives.
Origin of the Tudun Cu–Ni sulfide deposit in the eastern Tianshan, NW China: Constraints on the geochemistry of platinum group elements
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2015
North American universalism in RuPaul's Drag Race: Stereotypes, linguicism, and the construction of Puerto Rican Queens
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2017
Experiences of vicarious trauma among Australian foster parents providing long-term care to non-indigenous children
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2021
Domestic violence and companion animals in the context of LGBTpeople’s relationships
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 17-02-2017
Abstract: The link between domestic violence and animal abuse has now been well established, indicating that where there is one form of abuse, there is often the other. Research on this link, however, has almost exclusively focused on heterosexual cisgender people’s relationships. Lacking, then, is an exploration of the possibly unique links between domestic violence and animal abuse in the context of lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) people’s relationships. In this article we adopt a feminist intersectional approach informed by Critical Animal Studies to advocate for a non-pathologising approach to understanding LGBT people’s relationships with regard to the link between domestic violence and animal abuse.
Australian Heterosexual Men’s Experiences of Pregnancy Loss: The Relationships Between Grief, Psychological Distress, Stigma, Help-Seeking, and Support
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 17-12-2018
Abstract: This study explores experiences of pregnancy loss via a questionnaire completed by a convenience s le of 48 Australian cisgender heterosexual men. The questionnaire included measures of support following pregnancy loss, recognition of loss, perceived utility of help-seeking, perceived stigma attached to help-seeking, perinatal grief, and depression and anxiety. The questionnaire also included open-ended questions focused on help-seeking and support. Higher levels of grief were related to higher levels of both depression and anxiety. Perceptions about stigma were related to the perceived utility of help-seeking. While a majority of participants had accessed formal support services, feeling supported was unrelated to either grief or depression. Participants emphasized the utility of men’s groups where members have experienced pregnancy loss, though barriers to support were also identified in terms of the unavailability of support or the perceived need to focus on a partner’s loss.
The ‘pet effect’ and trans people: Associations between living with animal companions and wellbeing, social support, and trans-related marginalization in three international studies
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 15-07-2023
Australian foster carers' negotiations of intimacy with agency workers, birth families and children
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Date: 11-2015
DOI: 10.1332/204674314X14008543149659
Abstract: This article seeks to examine what are argued to be a particular set of non-normative relationships between Australian foster carers, the children in their care, the children’s birth parents, and agency workers who act as legal guardians for children who are removed from their birth parents. Eightyfive Australian foster carers participated in interviews on the topic of foster family life. Coding of responses to questions related to agency workers, abuse allegations and birth parents suggested a novel topic of ‘intimacy’ in regards to foster carers’ experiences of these three areas. Findings indicate three key themes within the overarching focus on intimacy: (a) the impact of abuse allegations on foster family intimacy, (b) the intimate presence of birth families and (c) what are termed ‘awkward intimacies’ with agency workers. While such intimacies may be viewed as non-normative, they nonetheless would appear to play a formative role in interactions between all parties, and thus warrant ongoing attention.
The Invisibility of Lesbian Mother Families in the South Australian Premier’s Reading Challenge
Publisher: Project MUSE
Date: 2014
Understanding Non-Monogamies
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 02-02-2010
Gaslighting in the context of clinical interactions with parents of transgender children
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 28-02-2018
Men, trans/masculine, and non-binary people negotiating conception: Normative resistance and inventive pragmatism
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-2020
Australian mental health nurses and transgender clients: Attitudes and knowledge
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 28-01-2016
Abstract: As increasing numbers of transgender people access mental health services, so with this comes the requirement that mental health professionals are capable of providing inclusive and informed care. In Australia, mental health nurses play a key role in the mental health workforce, and are increasingly likely to engage with transgender people across a range of practice contexts. The research reported in this paper sought to explore the experience, knowledge and attitudes of a s le of Australian mental health nurses with regards to working with transgender people. A total of 96 mental health nurses completed a survey that included an attitudinal measure and a measure of clinical knowledge. Our findings indicated that a majority of the s le had worked with a transgender client before, but only a minority had undertaken training in working with transgender clients. Training was related to more positive attitudes and both training and experience were related to greater clinical knowledge. Female and/or older participants had greater clinical knowledge, whilst more religious participants had less positive attitudes. The paper concludes by commenting on the dearth of competency and practice documents specific to mental health nurses working with transgender people, and it outlines the Australian standards that would mandate their development.
‘Being together really helped’: Australian transgender and non-binary people and their animal companions living through violence and marginalisation
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 28-01-2020
Abstract: This article explores the intersections of human and animal lives in the context of violence and marginalisation. It draws on two studies, the first involving a sub-s le of 23 open-ended survey responses completed by transgender and non-binary (TNB) people taken from a larger study exploring the intersections of animal- and human-directed violence, and the second involving eight interviews with TNB people focused on the meaning of animal companionship. Together, the findings suggest that animal companionship can be a protective factor for TNB people experiencing marginalisation and/or distress, whether in the context of domestic violence and abuse (DVA) or in the context of other forms of intra- or inter-personal points or adversity. The findings suggest that animal companions can provide TNB people with comfort and non-judgemental emotional interactions in the face of DVA and other life stressors. However, the risk of violence directed towards animals must also be considered. The article concludes with discussion of the implications for DVA service provision and research.
Erasure and agency in sexuality and relationships education and knowledge among trans young people in Australia
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 28-12-2022
Experiences of Disenfranchised Grief Arising from the Unplanned Termination of a Foster Placement: An Exploratory South Australian Study
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 07-2012
DOI: 10.1177/030857591203600206
Abstract: When a child who has been in your primary care — a child whom you have loved, helped in times of need, comforted when upset and celebrated with in times of happiness — is taken from you unexpectedly, and when this care arrangement was thought to be long term, the sense of loss and grief is likely to be significant. Furthermore, the significance of this might be compounded if it is not adequately recognised. The findings reported by Damien W Riggs and Stacey Willsmore affirm this supposition by exploring four case studies of South Australian foster carers who experienced an unplanned placement termination. The findings indicate that the participants experinced their grief as disenfranchised, in that it was not adequately recognised nor adequately dealt with. The case studies highlight the need for recognition of the fact that foster carers are not simply ‘paid babysitters’ but form enduring and meaningful attachments with the children in their care, and that the ending of a placement, specially one intended to be long term, will likely bring with it significant issues of loss and grief.
Narratives of Choice amongst white Australians who undertake Surrogacy Arrangements in India
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 15-02-2016
DOI: 10.1007/S10912-015-9330-Z
Abstract: This paper reports on a rhetorical analysis of interviews with fifteen white Australian citizens who had undertaken offshore commercial surrogacy in India. Extending previous research, the findings suggest that genetic relatedness was valorized, and surrogacy constructed as a less tenuous route to family formation. The paper concludes with a discussion of the need for further research on 1) how the contentious nature of offshore commercial surrogacy may prevent full consideration of its ethical implications, 2) the differing belief systems between India and Australia in terms of children as alienable objects, and 3) ongoing consideration of how and when genetic-relatedness is made to matter.
Queer theory and its future in psychology: exploring issues of race privilege
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 11-2007
Stressed spaces: mental health and architecture
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 07-2013
DOI: 10.1177/193758671300600408
Abstract: To present a comprehensive review of the research literature on the effects of the architectural designs of mental health facilities on the users. Using a team of cross-disciplinary researchers, this review builds upon previous reviews on general and geriatric healthcare design in order to focus on research undertaken for mental health care facility design. Sources were gathered in 2010 and 2011. In 2010 a broad search was undertaken across health and architecture in 2011, using keywords and 13 databases, researchers conducted a systematic search of peer reviewed literature addressing mental health care and architectural design published between 2005 to 2012, as well as a systematic search for academic theses for the period 2000 to 2012. Recurrent themes and subthemes were identified and numerical data that emerged from quantitative studies was tabulated. Key themes that emerged were nursing stations, light, therapeutic milieu, security, privacy, designing for the adolescent, forensic facilities, interior detail, patients' rooms, art, dementia, model of care, gardens, post-occupancy evaluation, and user engagement in design process. Of the 165 articles (including conference proceedings, books, and theses), 25 contained numerical data from empirical studies and 7 were review articles. Based on the review results, especially the growing evidence of the benefits of therapeutic design on patient and staff well-being and client length of stay, additional research questions are suggested concerning optimal design considerations, designs to be avoided, and the involvement of major stakeholders in the design process.
'Children out of place' : representations of foster care in the Australian news media
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-2009
Locating control: psychology and the cultural production of 'healthy subject positions'
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2005
DOI: 10.1080/13691050412331291405
Abstract: This paper addresses some of the ways in which psychological constructs, which have been traditionally positioned as intra-psychic phenomena, may be more productively understood as local performances of intelligible 'healthy subject positions'. More specifically, it focuses on the cultural location of psychological epistemologies, and the assumptions of universality (based upon the normative subject position 'white middle-class heterosexual male') that shape them. Through an analysis of traditional locus of control research, it explores the ways in which in idualistic notions of 'personality traits' enact a form of governmentality over subjects who are expected to inhabit specific, fixed subject positions. Thus, traditional research on locus of control can be seen as instantiating the very subject positions that it seeks to measure. To counter this, the paper draws upon experience as a methodological tool in order to examine some of the ways in which neo-liberal discourses of control work to homogenize the broad range of experiences that construct intelligible subject positions. In particular, the focus is on the potentialities and limitations of drawing on such discourses of control to understand non-heterosexual experiences, and it is suggested that we need to examine how such experiences may render in iduals complicit with heterosexist 'practices of self'.
Attitudes toward parenting in a lesbian and gay community convenience sample
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 20-01-2009
Moving beyond homonormativity in teacher training: experiences from South Australia
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-2013
Intimate relationship strengths and challenges amongst a sample of transgender people living in the United States
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 23-10-2021
Support Experiences and Attitudes of Australian Parents of Gender Variant Children
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 17-06-2015
“There’s Something to Remind You that Everything Is Okay”: Australian Trans Young People and the Presence of Animals in Interactions With Healthcare Professionals
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 24-03-2023
DOI: 10.1177/10497323231163723
Abstract: While animals have long been a focus in therapeutic spaces for young people via approaches such as animal-assisted therapies, there is a sense in which such approaches overlook the broader contribution that animals play by being present in young people’s lives. In this article, we explore how the presence of animals (both physical and psychological) in interactions with healthcare professionals may hold specific meaning for trans young people living in Australia. Participants were recruited through Parents of Gender Diverse Children. Interviews were conducted in November 2021 with 17 trans young people and one of each of their parents living in Australia. All interviews were audio recorded, transcribed, and analyzed using thematic analysis. Two main themes were developed: (1) how healthcare professionals respond to conversations about animals and (2) the beneficial role of the presence of animals. The article concludes by discussing the importance of thinking about the presence of animals beyond existing frameworks and recognizing the value placed on the presence of animals by trans young people.
Representations of reproductive citizenship and vulnerability in media reports of offshore surrogacy
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2013
Embryo donation and receipt in Australia: views on the meanings of embryos and kinship relations
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-10-2018
Can computer-mediated communication increase adolescents' sexually risky behaviours?
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Date: 2013
DOI: 10.1037/A0033631
Learning Difference
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-02-2007
Reframing Reproduction
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Date: 2014
Jazz Jennings and Evie Macdonald: trans child celebrities, transnormativity, and childhood ‘innocence’
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-09-2022
What makes a man? Thomas Beattie, embodiment and 'mundane transphobia'
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 14-03-2014
Abstract: Critical scholars have long examined the ways in which identity categories are forcibly written upon bodies through the functioning of social norms. For many marginalised groups, such critiques have been central to challenging pathologising understandings of identity categories, often by uncoupling bodies from identities. Yet despite this, normative accounts of embodiment are still forcibly written upon the bodies of many groups of people, albeit often in mundane ways. Nowhere is this perhaps more evident than in the lives of trans people. This paper explores one instance of this by examining in close detail some of the key discursive strategies deployed by Oprah Winfrey in her first interview with Thomas Beatie. It is argued that Beatie is constantly drawn into a logic of ‘bodily evidence’ that demands of him an aetiological account of himself as a man, and from which, Winfrey concludes, he is always left lacking.
Challenging the monoculturalism of psychology: Towards a socially accountable pedagogy and practice
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2004
Intending fathers: heterosexual men planning for a first child
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 24-05-2017
The management of accusations of racism in Celebrity Big Brother
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 05-2010
Abstract: The 2007 UK series of Celebrity Big Brother drew considerable attention to Britain as a result of the alleged racist bullying of Bollywood film star Shilpa Shetty by four British celebrity housemates. At stake in these allegations was any perception that Britain as a country promotes inclusivity and discourages racism. In this article, we examine, through an analysis of the exit interviews conducted with the four housemates in question, how accusations of racism were made by the host of Big Brother, and how racism was almost made to disappear in the interviews. Specifically, we elaborate on how racism was constructed not simply as an in idual aberration, but more precisely as a matter of perception. We then explore how the host of the interviews avoided making accusations of racism herself by implying that it was others who perceived the behaviours of the housemates as racist, and by using other words (such as ‘bullying’) rather than explicitly referring to racism. We conclude by outlining the implications of our findings for future discursive research on racism, and we emphasize the need to further explore how rhetorical strategies aimed at denying racism operate in the service of shoring up privileged identities.
The Role of School Counsellors and Psychologists in Supporting Transgender People
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2015
DOI: 10.1017/EDP.2015.19
Expanding and improving trans affirming care in Australia: experiences with healthcare professionals among transgender young people and their parents
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 13-11-2020
The value and meaning attached to genetic relatedness among Australian sperm donors
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2011
Ideological dilemmas in accounts of primary caregiving fathers in Australian news media
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2017
Family support and discrimination and their relationship to psychological distress and resilience amongst transgender people
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-10-2018
Transgender and non-binary Australians’ experiences with healthcare professionals in relation to fertility preservation
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 18-03-2019
DOI: 10.1080/13691058.2019.1580388
Abstract: While transitioning gender historically precluded many transgender people from conceiving (more) children, there is now the option to undertake fertility preservation. However, the uptake of this option to date has been low. In order to extend existing limited research on the topic, this paper draws on responses to a questionnaire survey provided by 409 transgender and non-binary adults in Australia, which explored their experiences related to fertility preservation. The paper specifically focuses on the experiences of 295 participants who responded to open-ended questions about their experiences with, and views of, healthcare professionals in regard to fertility preservation. A thematic analysis indicated that healthcare professionals undertake a range of roles with regard to fertility preservation, some viewed positively (e.g. as providers of information), and some viewed negatively (e.g. as potential gatekeepers). The paper concludes by arguing that professionals need to ensure that transgender and non-binary people are provided with enough information, support and opportunity to make an informed decision about fertility preservation. The discussion includes a consideration of interweaving factors, particularly costs, and recommendations for further research that may inform clinical guidelines and training.
Fertility preservation decision making amongst Australian transgender and non-binary adults
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 25-10-2018
Healthcare experiences of gender diverse Australians: a mixed-methods, self-report survey
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 06-03-2014
Care for Children with Migrant or Refugee Backgrounds in the School Context
Publisher: The Centre for Excellence in Child and Family Welfare
Date: 27-07-2016
DOI: 10.1017/CHA.2016.24
Abstract: Whilst teachers are increasingly being asked to provide ‘care’ for students in their classrooms, very little research has explored what care might look like for students with migrant or refugee backgrounds. This paper reports on the findings of a study conducted with children when they began school in Australia in the Intensive English Language Program (IELP), with a focus on how care might be provided and defined. Participants were 63 migrant or refugee children aged between 5 and 13 years of age ( M = 7.40 years, SD = 2.39), and 14 IELP teachers. The aims of the broader study of which this paper forms one part were to explore experiences at school through a mixed-methods, participatory methodology. The current paper takes a deductive approach, and focuses specifically on the relationships between students and teachers as one dimension of care for students. We found that students had positive relationships with their teachers, and reported feeling safe at school. Teachers reported some challenges in relation to their relationships with students, particularly in the case of students with refugee backgrounds. We suggest that the concept of care for children with refugee and migrant backgrounds needs further work, particularly in mainstream education settings.
Exploring anti-asexual bias in a sample of Australian undergraduate psychology students
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 23-07-2022
Proving the Case: Psychology, Subjectivity, and Representations of Lesbian and Gay Parents in the Media
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc.
Date: 2006
Educational Diversity
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Date: 2012
‘That’s my job’: accounting for division of labour amongst heterosexual first time parents
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-04-2018
“It’s just what you do”: Australian middle-class heterosexual couples negotiating compulsory parenthood
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 15-12-2016
Abstract: A distinction is often made between the “choice” of not having children and the claim that having children is “natural”. What disappears in this distinction is the fact that having children is most often a choice. This choice, however, is rendered invisible through the naturalisation of parenthood as a normatively expected aspect of adulthood. Whilst this argument is not new, the topic of how heterosexual couples come to decide to have children has received relatively little attention within the academic literature. This paper reports on findings from the first stage of a longitudinal interview study focused on Australian middle-class heterosexual couples planning for a first child. A thematic analysis of interviews conducted with 10 couples found that a paired contrast was often made between what were constructed as “childless others”, and a “natural” or “innate” desire to have children. The naturalisation of a desire to have children, however, was problematised when participants spoke about expectations from family members that participants should have children. The paper concludes by considering how the relationship between parenthood and adulthood may be a specifically class-based narrative.
Evaluating outcomes from an Australian webinar series on affirming approaches to working with trans and non-binary young people
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 29-03-2021
Young people's experiences of receiving Individual Packages of Care in South Australia
Publisher: The Centre for Excellence in Child and Family Welfare
Date: 11-02-2014
DOI: 10.1017/CHA.2013.42
Abstract: The aim of this study was to explore the role that professional foster care – and specifically In idual Packages of Care (IPC) in South Australia – plays in providing an alternative care option for young people who are unable to live with their birth parents due to issues of abuse or neglect, but who also, due to behavioural concerns, are not well suited to a traditional foster care placement. Participants in the study were nine young people who had previously lived in an IPC placement. The findings highlight participants’ experiences of living in the context of an IPC placement, experiences that were at times challenging, but which also provided opportunities for growth and positive change that may not have been possible in a traditional foster care placement.
Foster fathers and carework: Engaging alternate models of parenting
Publisher: Men's Studies Press, LLC
Date: 2010
DOI: 10.3149/FTH.0801.24
Gender differences in cisgender psychologists’ and trainees’ attitudes toward transgender people.
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Date: 04-2017
DOI: 10.1037/MEN0000047
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