1607 - Social Work
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This collection contains Flinders' staff research in Social Work, reportable as part of Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA), from 2001-
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Item Teaching Letters(2005) Cooper, Lesley LeighItem Psycho-Social Perspectives in Policy and Professional Practice Research(Palgrave Macmillan, 2008) Miller, Christopher Jan; Hoggett, Paul; Mayo, MarjorieItem From refugee to settlement case worker: cultural brokers in the contact zone and the border work of identity(2007) Rainbird, Sophia Jane; Schech, Susanne Barbara; Haggis, JaneOur starting point in this paper is the notion of the 'contact zone' first elaborated by Mary Louise Pratt (1992) to reconceptualise colonialism as a space of cross-cultural interaction and agency rather than as a static picture of domination and incorporation. The paper draws upon our research on refugee settlement in Australia to explore the hypothesis that the concept of the 'contact zone' expresses the contemporary global border between developed and developing societies, structuring and framing the people flows of refugees and labour that characterise the contemporary moment. Our attention is on how the settlement process deals with difference. By difference we mean a range of possibilities: racialised difference, cultural difference, and the difference of development and modernity. The border also has its uses in conceptualizing the character of this contact zone. Somerville and Perkins (2003) develop a model of the contact zone as a range of specific kinds of 'border work' undertaken by actors: sometimes maintaining, sometimes crossing, borders of difference. Newly arrived refugees in Australia enter a complex settlement program through which they receive support from government agencies and NGOs. Settlement case workers provide individual and community support on a range of needs such as housing, household formation, assistance with school enrolments, advice and referrals to services such as counselling, health employment and education. Within this workforce are former refugees, often having experienced careers entirely different to that of the welfare industry. These workers act as cultural brokers liaising, communicating and interpreting between service providers and their ethnic communities (Whitehead 1983). This paper considers the extent to which community member, employee, ethnic representative and refugee form aspects of their multifaceted identity. In so doing, this paper suggests that movement within a hierarchy of identities according to need, operates as a coping mechanism, allowing the cultural broker to shift between refugee, case worker, community member and employee in the process accomplishing the 'border work' of the contact zone.Item Contested concepts in violence against women: 'intimate', 'domestic' or 'torture'?(2006) Cooper, Lesley Leigh; Anaf, Julia Margaret; Bowden, MargaretItem The systematic abrogation of practice standards in foster care(2004) Gilbertson, Robyn Lynette; Barber, J GItem Ethical dilemmas of front-line regeneration workers(The Policy Press, 2007) Mayo, Marjorie; Hoggett, Paul; Miller, Christopher JanItem Working with Clients on the Telephone(Allen and Unwin, 2004) Miller, KeithItem Becoming parent: Lesbians, gay men, and family(Post Pressed, 2007) Riggs, Damien WayneItem Disrupted adolescents in foster care: their perspectives on placement breakdown(2003) Gilbertson, Robyn Lynette; Barber, J GItem Identity, life history and commitment to welfare(2006) Hoggett, Paul; Beedell, Phoebe; Jimenez, Luis; Mayo, Marjorie; Miller, Christopher JanItem Backing Australia's future: teaching and learning in social work(2007) Cooper, Lesley LeighItem On relationships not things: exploring disabilty and spirituality(Jessica Kingsley Publishing, 2008) Hallahan, Lorna ElizabethItem Cultural safety in child protection: Application to the workplace environment and casework practice(2004) Zon, Annie; Lindeman, Melissa; Williams, Anne; Hayes, Colleen; Ross, David; Furber, MargaretItem Parent and child therapy: an attachment-based intervention for children with challenging problems(2006) Chambers, Heather; Amos, Jacqueline; Allison, Robert Stephen; Roeger, Simon LeighItem Is the third way the best way?: Social work intervention with children and families(2004) Leigh, Sarah; Miller, Christopher JanItem Community use of intranasal midazolam for managing prolonged seizures(2006) Kyrkou, Margaret Rose; Harbord, Michael Geoffrey; Kyrkou, Nicole E; Kay, Debra; Coulthard, Kingsley PItem Fun days out: normalising social experinces for refugee children(2008) Hallahan, Lorna Elizabeth; Irizarry, Carol RiegerItem Can social workers and police be partners when dealing with bikie-gang related domestic violence and sexual assault?(2008) Anaf, Julia Margaret; Cooper, Lesley Leigh; Bowden, MargaretItem Grief and loss: the needs of the whole population(2004) Currow, David ChristopherItem Preteens in double jeopardy: supporting developmental growth through natural friendship group(Columbia University Press, 2005) Irizarry, Carol Rieger; Appel, Yetta H