Pub Date : 2023-03-27DOI: 10.1080/0312407X.2023.2176733
S. Gair
Domestic and family violence and child protection are core practice and research contexts for social work, and many articles in this Issue address these topics. As we know, domestic and family violence and child abuse constitute dangerous, violent and damaging episodes, often with life-threatening and even fatal outcomes for Australian women and children. We are reminded regularly through research findings, and in the media on a daily basis, that gender-based violence against women is widespread across Australia and the world. Violence is an ongoing, severe threat to the safety, freedom, health and wellbeing of women, children, families, and communities. A standout theme in this Issue is the intensely difficult practice context of domestic and family violence and child protection work. Equally evident are the targeted efforts by practitioners, policymakers, and researchers who sought to improve outcomes for women, children and families and, in undertaking this vital work, their commitment to optimising relationship-based collaborations. Recent published reports (Commission for Children and Young People, 2022; Commission for Children and Young People WA, 2022; Queensland Family and Child Commission, 2022) informed us of the Australian incidence and prevalence of both child protection and domestic and family violence, and the many programs and interventions initiated. Yet we know this violence prevails. Marginalised groups and those individuals and families dealing with difficult and interrelated circumstances such as poverty, trauma, housing instability, mental health concerns, significant drug and alcohol issues, and those living in regional and remote areas with a lack of accessible services, remain overrepresented as victims/survivors and perpetrators. The severe and even fatal outcome for some children who come to the attention of child protection systems is indicated in several recent Queensland reports, including the Queensland Family and Child Commission (2022) Deaths of Children and Young People report. This Report identifies deaths of children aged 0–17 years from natural causes, accidents, fatal assaults, unexplained causes, neglect, and suicides between July 2021 and June 2022. The Report showed 69 children died who were known to child protection services in the 12 months prior to their deaths, an increase from 53 deaths in 2020 to 2021. The 2021–2022 Annual Report of the Commission for Children and Young People (2023) in Victoria identified premature case closures and a lack of effective early intervention as recurrent themes emerging from the Commission’s inquiries into the deaths of children known to child protection. A recently published international study by Katz and Fallon (2022) of child protective services in 12 countries, including Australia, indicates broad and varied impacts of COVID-19 in relation to child abuse and child protection responses, and we are not yet free from COVID. Equally, highlighting gender differences and
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Pub Date : 2023-02-22DOI: 10.1080/0312407x.2022.2160266
M. Newcomb, Alyssa Venning
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Pub Date : 2023-02-20DOI: 10.1080/0312407x.2022.2156802
A. King, Helena Roennfeldt, Catherine Brasier, L. Byrne, T. Fortune, L. Brophy
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Pub Date : 2023-02-16DOI: 10.1080/0312407X.2022.2156801
Vinnitta Mosby
ABSTRACT This study explored the resettlement experiences of Torres Strait Islanders who moved to the Australian mainland. In-depth semi-structured interviews were conducted with 11 individuals, using a grounded theory method. Findings suggest that Torres Strait Islander contemporary out-movers are adjusting rather than assimilating to the Australian mainstream culture. The concept of “living in two worlds” required managing the crossing between the obligations of island life and demands and expectations of the mainstream. As people made sense of their experiences, out-movers developed strategies to “manage the crossings” from one world to another- the simpler lifestyle of “island life” that offered a greater sense of certainty and familiarity, and “mainstream” which may present many challenges, competing demands and expectations. While Torres Strait Islander out-movement is internal, there are similarities to international migration experiences, and like other internal movements, this movement tended to go unnoticed. Migration is an important area of social work practice that needs the attention of social workers, particularly with the predicted increases in out-movements that may occur in response to economic and climate-related change. IMPLICATIONS Torres Strait Islander internal migration is absent from social work literature. There is a gap in knowledge of how contemporary migrants experience and make sense of life on the mainland. Social work can learn from this movement to prepare for future migration responding to environmental and economic imperatives, both internally and internationally.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-12DOI: 10.1080/0312407x.2022.2162943
S. Gair, I. Zuchowski, Daisy Jebichii, S. O’Reilly, Raechelle Rauwerda, Nikkola Savuro
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Pub Date : 2023-02-12DOI: 10.1080/0312407x.2022.2161403
Peter Young, Monique Sinclaire, Jane Fowler
{"title":"Barriers to Studying Social Work in Australia for Unvaccinated People","authors":"Peter Young, Monique Sinclaire, Jane Fowler","doi":"10.1080/0312407x.2022.2161403","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0312407x.2022.2161403","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47275,"journal":{"name":"Australian Social Work","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41285918","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.1080/0312407x.2022.2160265
Natasha Long, F. Gardner, S. Hodgkin, J. Lehmann
{"title":"Developing Social Work Professional Identity Resilience: Seven Protective Factors","authors":"Natasha Long, F. Gardner, S. Hodgkin, J. Lehmann","doi":"10.1080/0312407x.2022.2160265","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0312407x.2022.2160265","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47275,"journal":{"name":"Australian Social Work","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41304214","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-19DOI: 10.1080/0312407x.2022.2142142
M. Frederico, S. Muncy, Janelle Young, C. Picton
{"title":"Responding to the Needs of Internally Displaced Persons: A Social Work Perspective","authors":"M. Frederico, S. Muncy, Janelle Young, C. Picton","doi":"10.1080/0312407x.2022.2142142","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0312407x.2022.2142142","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47275,"journal":{"name":"Australian Social Work","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43993374","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-12DOI: 10.1080/0312407x.2022.2146518
Chris Horsell
{"title":"Utopian Thinking, Social Work, and Homelessness: Critiquing Ideas Regarding Welfare Dependence","authors":"Chris Horsell","doi":"10.1080/0312407x.2022.2146518","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0312407x.2022.2146518","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47275,"journal":{"name":"Australian Social Work","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43452046","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/0312407x.2023.2148322
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