Pub Date : 2022-07-21DOI: 10.1080/0312407X.2022.2078220
J. Moore, Sarah Wendt, Craig Rigney (Ngarrindjeri), C. Bastian
ABSTRACT There has been little research into what enables culturally safe collaboration between Aboriginal services and statutory child protection organisations, particularly when family violence is a concern. This article reports on a qualitative study that analysed working group data from practice between KWY Family Safety Services and the Department for Child Protection, South Australia, who came together to build culturally safe collaboration when working with Aboriginal families. The study found that when methods are put into place to deliberately make visible the power dynamics within this context, space for the development of meaningful collaboration with Aboriginal services become possible. However, open and regular communication to raise and work through issues of power as they arose was continually needed to ensure both agencies had the same information and decision making was shared. The implication for practice is that openness to work differently by statutory child protection was reinforced through respect for Aboriginal practice and strengths. IMPLICATIONS Collaboration between Aboriginal services and child protection organisations can be complex and challenging, especially due to the historical and continued discrimination experienced by Aboriginal people. Culturally safe collaboration is enabled through building sustainable relationships; shared understandings and accountability between agencies; redressing of unequal relationships, structures, and outcomes; and respect for Aboriginal ways of working.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-17DOI: 10.1080/0312407x.2022.2077121
Hannah Wells, M. Heinsch, Caragh Brosnan, F. Kay-Lambkin
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Pub Date : 2022-07-17DOI: 10.1080/0312407x.2022.2077120
Melissa Ziani, E. Khoury, Jérémy Boisvert-Viens, Ghislaine Niyonkuru, Naïma Bentayeb, Martin Goyette
This article describes the telehealth experiences of adolescents, young adults, and youth workers during the first and second waves of the COVID-19 pandemic in the province of Québec, Canada, where remote appointments was the recommended alternative to in-person meetings due to various public health restrictions. Four main themes emerged from individual interviews with nine adolescents and young adults (aged 15–25 years) and focus groups with 35 service providers: the trust relationship, loss of nonverbal communication, confidentiality concerns, and youth disengagement. Participants agreed that face-to-face psychosocial intervention is the preferred option for quality care and service. However, with appropriate support and infrastructure, telehealth could be a reliable alternate modality for reaching adolescents and young adults in remote and rural areas as well as for follow-up care for adolescents and young adults who have an established and trusted relationship with their service provider. For interventions to remain youth-friendly and person-centred, adolescents and young adults must always be offered a choice of modality. IMPLICATIONS Perspectives of adolescents, young adults, and youth workers intersect to provide a unique understanding of telehealth in a specific context. There is scant literature on the use of telehealth as a social work practice modality, specifically with adolescents, young adults and their families. This article attempts to fill this gap by providing an early look at the experiences of telehealth during the first two waves of the COVID-19 pandemic in Québec, Canada. Perspectives of adolescents, young adults, and youth workers intersect to provide a unique understanding of telehealth in a specific context.There is scant literature on the use of telehealth as a social work practice modality, specifically with adolescents, young adults and their families. This article attempts to fill this gap by providing an early look at the experiences of telehealth during the first two waves of the COVID-19 pandemic in Québec, Canada. [ FROM AUTHOR] Copyright of Australian Social Work is the property of Routledge and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full . (Copyright applies to all s.)
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Pub Date : 2022-07-17DOI: 10.1080/0312407X.2022.2055483
L. Whitaker, Fiona Smith, M. Petrakis, L. Brophy
ABSTRACT The Australian social work course accreditation standards aim to ensure graduates have an understanding of the social, cultural, and political structures that influence psychosocial wellbeing. Unlike the previous standards, the current standards do not require the curricula to address specific knowledge and skills for working with people who live with severe mental distress or mental health conditions that might result in diagnoses such as schizophrenia, personality disorders, and bipolar disorder. Anticipating the revision of curricula resulting from these recent changes to the accreditation standards, four social work academics from across three Australian universities engaged in a peer review of mental health social work curricula. By exploring the purpose, emphasis, and challenges in curriculum design, this stage of the review aimed to identify the positioning of future curricula to prepare graduates who embrace the complex array of opportunities and demands of social work practice in this field. Our investigations confirmed diversity in mental health social work practice, revealing mental health social work curricula must meet multiple and evolving agendas. IMPLICATIONS International calls for transformative approaches to mental health present opportunities for enhanced recognition of the social justice orientation of social work. The absence of an accreditation requirement to address social work practice with people who live with severe mental distress or low prevalence mental health conditions might prove a regrettable gap in Australian Social Work Education Accreditation Standards 2021. Further collegial discussion and debate about the beneficial outcomes of mental health social work curricula are desirable.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-13DOI: 10.1080/0312407X.2022.2049580
Bindi Bennett, S. Gillieatt
As with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander tradition, we acknowledge and pay our respects to the First People and Traditional custodians of the lands and waterways of that we work and live in. We thank them for their continued hospitality. We acknowledge and celebrate the continuation of a living culture. We acknowledge Elders past and present as well as our emerging leaders of tomorrow and thank them for their wisdom and guidance as we walk in their footsteps.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.1080/0312407x.2022.2043921
Monique Sinclaire, Peter Young, Clare Tilbury
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Pub Date : 2022-03-20DOI: 10.1080/0312407x.2021.1988664
Rosalie Pockett, K. Hobbs
This special issue is the culmination of work undertaken in a long-term, academic–practitioner partnership that began over a decade ago. Supported by interdisciplinary oncology networks and long careers in hospital social work and later in academia, a research agenda has been pursued that explored the scope of oncology social work practice in Australia. The motivations for this agenda included the need to increase its visibility, the encouragement of practice-based research, and the contribution of social work perspectives to the wider knowledge base of oncology practice. An imperative in this agenda was the repositioning of social understandings that emphasised differing world views and ontological stances in the psycho-oncology field. Health and social inequalities, social justice perspectives, socioecological frameworks, and wide-lens views of individual circumstances were all part of reconceptualising “the social” in psychosocial care and giving this greater prominence through practice research and evidenceinformed practice. Within the competitive environment of the health sector, social workers as members of interdisciplinary teams need to ensure that their unique contribution to patient care is clearly communicated, well articulated, and informed by ontological stances that bring other perspectives to the bio-medical lens. Although a body of international literature about oncology social work existed, particularly from the US, there was very little published about Australian practice. From the results of our early research, it was clear that the social work oncology workforce was a highly skilled but small group who were interested in undertaking research into their practice (Pockett et al., 2016). Workforce issues are researched further in this special issue with recommendations that social workers be acknowledged as key providers of psycho-social care in oncology with formal recognition of advanced training. Australian oncology social workers are active in such groups as the Clinical Oncology Society of Australia (COSA) and have their own well-established society, Oncology Social Work Australia and New Zealand (OSWANZ), and we are grateful to many members of these groups for their participation and ongoing support of the various studies we have undertaken. The call for papers encouraged social work practitioners and academics to submit papers about their practice, which would contribute to the national and international body of knowledge in the field. We believe that this collection of papers achieves this aim, bringing together research findings about the social circumstances of those affected by cancer, including patients, family members, health professionals, and social workers. These findings inform practice and bring new insights into service delivery, collectively representing an emerging critical mass of expertise in the field. New insights into the cancer experience of groups that are harder to reach and about which little has bee
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Pub Date : 2022-03-20DOI: 10.1080/0312407x.2021.1988665
M. Krishnasamy
I write this opinion piece as a cancer nurse. It is my privilege to have this opportunity to present my perspective on the contribution of oncology social workers as a clinician who has worked alongside, learnt from, and partnered with oncology social work colleagues in Australia, and the United Kingdom. There will be much that I am unaware of regarding the nuanced specialisation of social work practice because so much of what social workers do, like nurses, is invisible to the untrained eye and happens behind closed doors. And yet it has profound impact on peoples’ capacity to tolerate and live through, or with, a diagnosis of cancer. Cancer is a disease of the collective. Its utterance in a clinical consultation irrevocably changes the lives of all impacted by its unwelcomed presence. It is, as Kleinman (1988) so powerfully articulated, defined by, and experienced through the personal and social.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-09DOI: 10.1080/0312407x.2022.2044258
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