Barbara Fawcett
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 389489 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Barbara Fawcett |
| NOMBRES | Barbara |
| APELLIDO | Fawcett |
| FIRMA | FAWCETT B |
| AFILIACIONES | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2116-9919 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 111 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1994 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Gender and Sexuality in Childhood Emotional Abuse
This article reports on a research project that aimed to generate new knowledge about the social dimensions of childhood emotional abuse. The driving research question for the overarching study asked how social context shapes and structures childhood emotional abuse, with the two sub-questions specifically relevant to this paper asking how the severity of childhood emotional abuse might vary according to the gender and sexual identity of victim-s…
Older People, Loneliness, Social Isolation and Technological Mitigations
In this article, the effects of social isolation which can lead to increasing feelings of loneliness and abandonment for some are examined. The article analyses findings which emerged from a qualitative study carried out with older people in three distinct areas in Scotland (city, rural and urban) who were shielding during Covid-19. It focuses on the ways in which social isolation affected them and the extent to which information and communicatio…
Feminisms in social work and social care
The various feminisms create a complex and sometimes contradictory picture. Within social work and social care, there has been a mixed reception. However, it is maintained that a gendered analysis in a profession where women remain in the majority remains highly relevant. In particular, the continuing and increasing pay gap and the relatively low numbers of women in senior positions are used as markers. Similarly, comparisons between ‘choice’ fem…
Birmingham Taking the Initiative
Turning rhetoric into reality and fully embracing the principles and practice of the Care Act 2014 in innovative, citizen-focused and creative ways has been a journey constructively embraced in Birmingham over the last two years. This has been a journey with critical learning points which incorporate theoretical reflection, managerial and practitioner innovation and an emphasis on citizen-focused co-production. This article considers the context,…
Contrasts and reflections
This article compares field supervision in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to practices in a major city in England in order to contextualize the academic training of students. It considers practical dimensions and incorporates a qualitative study carried out in England exploring how the process of supervision in social work affects student learning and development from the supervisor’s perspective. In the study, particular attention is paid to field supp…
Refocusing on Early Intervention and Family Support
Since 2000, the New South Wales (NSW) Government in Australia has pursued major child welfare reforms. Responding to the ‘crisis in child protection’ and informed by a public health approach, key aims were to prevent child maltreatment and promote child welfare by ‘expanding and enhancing early intervention and family services’. This article critically reviews the aims, approach and main developments in NSW. The article argues that in several res…
Turning Ideas Into Research
Part One: Thinking about research Chapter One: Why do research? Chapter Two: Partnerships in research Chapter Three: Ethical considerations Part Two: Thinking differently about knowledge and researching Chapter Four: Creating viable research from good ideas Chapter Five: Designing a research project: Qualitative researching Chapter Six: Designing a research project: Quantitative and mixed method researching Chapter Seven: Evaluative researching C…
Social Work Research in Practice
D’Cruz and Jones have produced a second edition of a highly successful book originally published in 2004. As the authors highlight, they have retained the structure and themes of the first edition
Well-Being and Older People
This article draws from research carried out in Australia, but makes connections with policy and practice in the four countries that comprise the UK into the relationship between the use of day clubs, sometimes referred to as day centres, and enhanced social connectedness, resilience, and mental and physical health. As part of this process, interpretations of commonly used terminology such as ‘care’, ‘protection’ and ‘vulnerability’ are subject t…
A National Disability Insurance Scheme
This paper appraises key features of the recently proposed National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) in Australia and explores underpinning conceptualisations of ‘disability’, ‘autonomy’, ‘choice’ and ‘assessment’. In particular, it examines the ways in which the Scheme reconfigures a continuation of individualised payments and care package policies. These proposals can be seen to have international significance in terms of how new policy is fo…
Children and disability
In the arena of disability, disabled children and young people continue to be positioned in a variety of ways with some of these affording opportunities and others continuing to focus on deficit and constraint. Social workers occupy a pivotal position at the interface between policy and practice, and can effectively counter circular processes of disablement. In this article, a frame of reference is employed which, by incorporating key areas such …
International Perspectives on Mental Health
"Spanning an international evidence base, this book traces the development of contemporary theory, policy, and practice within the field of mental health. Drawing on snapshots from across the lifespan, it assesses the impact of issues such as gender and sexuality, and explores the range of global perspectives on mental ill health"
Mental Health and Older Women
Older women tend to be either rendered invisible in relation to considerations of mental health or, conversely, constructed as potential mental health problems. In this article, we draw attention to the position of older women with regard to current debates in the mental health field. It is argued that, within the UK and Australia, the prioritization of the management of risk and what an older woman cannot do rather than what she can adversely af…
Vulnerability
English Vulnerability is a policy and practice concept which is often ascribed a fixed meaning with universal connotations. In this article, different conceptualizations of vulnerability are examined. It is argued that this exploration militates against the erosion of self-determination and autonomy and revitalizes working relationships between service users and professionals. French Vulnérabilité est un concept de politique et de pratique auquel…
The 'return to community
In Australia and the United Kingdom over the past two decades, the way human service professionals have been involved in 'communities', whether defined by 'place', 'interest' or 'exclusion', has varied with the political complexion of the government in power. This has resulted in both opportunities for and constraints on human services practice and community participation. In this article, the terminology and the conceptual frames associated with…
Neoliberalism, New Public Management and the human service professions
Child sexual abuse and Aboriginal communities in Australia
In this article, a particular event which occurred in the Northern Territory in Australia in 2007 is used to examine and constructively critique a government strategy that prioritised an invasive and non-participatory form of intervention. The justification for this course of action was the protection of Aboriginal children from sexual abuse. In order to examine both the action taken and the ongoing implications, a case study approach is adopted …
Consistencies and Inconsistencies
In relation to mental health, it is clear that medicalized underpinnings, the provision of a clinically orientated evidence base for practice and the need to contain ‘risk’ continue to be prioritized, particularly when compulsory intervention is considered. This is despite the increasing influence of a citizenship and social justice agenda which is being promoted by psychiatrists involved in the development of ‘postpsychiatry’, as well as by serv…
Community involvement and Primary Care Trusts
This article looks at the different and sometimes conflicting policy drivers for a move towards greater community involvement in primary health care. In this context, research findings focusing on community involvement initiatives that have taken place within general practices, Primary Care Groups (PCGs) and Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) are explored and the key issues for implementation are appraised. Using an evaluation of a team set up to foster …
Researching others
This article examines the possibility and challenges of carrying out research, especially \nqualitative and ethnographically-orientated research, into areas such as gender, disability, \nethnicity and racialization, without the researcher having direct experience of those specific \nsocial divisions and oppressions. Discussion of these questions is framed by four differential \nunderstandings of the concept of ‘otherness’ and linked with debates …
Contemporary Child Care Policy and Practice
No
Reconstructing Mental Health Law and Policy
(2003). Reconstructing Mental Health Law and Policy. Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law: Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 97-100
Convergence or divergence? Responding to the abuse of disabled women
This paper examines three competing perspectives about appropriate positionings for disabled women in relation to abuse. It concludes that structural oppression must be challenged and proposes that the issue of disabled women and abuse is worthy of much greater attention and collaborative discussion
Disability and Social Work
Social Policy for Social Change
Researching others
This article examines the possibility and challenges of carrying out research, especially \nqualitative and ethnographically-orientated research, into areas such as gender, disability, \nethnicity and racialization, without the researcher having direct experience of those specific \nsocial divisions and oppressions. Discussion of these questions is framed by four differential \nunderstandings of the concept of ‘otherness’ and linked with debates …
Neoliberalism, New Public Management and the human service professions
Vulnerability
English Vulnerability is a policy and practice concept which is often ascribed a fixed meaning with universal connotations. In this article, different conceptualizations of vulnerability are examined. It is argued that this exploration militates against the erosion of self-determination and autonomy and revitalizes working relationships between service users and professionals. French Vulnérabilité est un concept de politique et de pratique auquel…
A National Disability Insurance Scheme
This paper appraises key features of the recently proposed National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) in Australia and explores underpinning conceptualisations of ‘disability’, ‘autonomy’, ‘choice’ and ‘assessment’. In particular, it examines the ways in which the Scheme reconfigures a continuation of individualised payments and care package policies. These proposals can be seen to have international significance in terms of how new policy is fo…
Consistencies and Inconsistencies
In relation to mental health, it is clear that medicalized underpinnings, the provision of a clinically orientated evidence base for practice and the need to contain ‘risk’ continue to be prioritized, particularly when compulsory intervention is considered. This is despite the increasing influence of a citizenship and social justice agenda which is being promoted by psychiatrists involved in the development of ‘postpsychiatry’, as well as by serv…
Mental Health and Older Women
Older women tend to be either rendered invisible in relation to considerations of mental health or, conversely, constructed as potential mental health problems. In this article, we draw attention to the position of older women with regard to current debates in the mental health field. It is argued that, within the UK and Australia, the prioritization of the management of risk and what an older woman cannot do rather than what she can adversely af…
Feminism and child abuse
This article explores some of the issues raised by feminists who are engaging with the debates within postmodernism and poststructural ism. It specifically examines contributions in the areas of knowledge, gender and power. It then goes on to identify key debates within the field of gender and child abuse. It argues that areas of concern, cur rently, cohere around the kinds of theory required and how power and gender should be understood. The art…
Social Work Research in Practice
D’Cruz and Jones have produced a second edition of a highly successful book originally published in 2004. As the authors highlight, they have retained the structure and themes of the first edition
Well-Being and Older People
This article draws from research carried out in Australia, but makes connections with policy and practice in the four countries that comprise the UK into the relationship between the use of day clubs, sometimes referred to as day centres, and enhanced social connectedness, resilience, and mental and physical health. As part of this process, interpretations of commonly used terminology such as ‘care’, ‘protection’ and ‘vulnerability’ are subject t…
Children and disability
In the arena of disability, disabled children and young people continue to be positioned in a variety of ways with some of these affording opportunities and others continuing to focus on deficit and constraint. Social workers occupy a pivotal position at the interface between policy and practice, and can effectively counter circular processes of disablement. In this article, a frame of reference is employed which, by incorporating key areas such …
Older People, Loneliness, Social Isolation and Technological Mitigations
In this article, the effects of social isolation which can lead to increasing feelings of loneliness and abandonment for some are examined. The article analyses findings which emerged from a qualitative study carried out with older people in three distinct areas in Scotland (city, rural and urban) who were shielding during Covid-19. It focuses on the ways in which social isolation affected them and the extent to which information and communicatio…
Feminisms in social work and social care
The various feminisms create a complex and sometimes contradictory picture. Within social work and social care, there has been a mixed reception. However, it is maintained that a gendered analysis in a profession where women remain in the majority remains highly relevant. In particular, the continuing and increasing pay gap and the relatively low numbers of women in senior positions are used as markers. Similarly, comparisons between ‘choice’ fem…
Contrasts and reflections
This article compares field supervision in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to practices in a major city in England in order to contextualize the academic training of students. It considers practical dimensions and incorporates a qualitative study carried out in England exploring how the process of supervision in social work affects student learning and development from the supervisor’s perspective. In the study, particular attention is paid to field supp…
The 'return to community
In Australia and the United Kingdom over the past two decades, the way human service professionals have been involved in 'communities', whether defined by 'place', 'interest' or 'exclusion', has varied with the political complexion of the government in power. This has resulted in both opportunities for and constraints on human services practice and community participation. In this article, the terminology and the conceptual frames associated with…
Child sexual abuse and Aboriginal communities in Australia
In this article, a particular event which occurred in the Northern Territory in Australia in 2007 is used to examine and constructively critique a government strategy that prioritised an invasive and non-participatory form of intervention. The justification for this course of action was the protection of Aboriginal children from sexual abuse. In order to examine both the action taken and the ongoing implications, a case study approach is adopted …
Disability and Social Work
Feminism and child abuse
This article explores some of the issues raised by feminists who are engaging with the debates within postmodernism and poststructural ism. It specifically examines contributions in the areas of knowledge, gender and power. It then goes on to identify key debates within the field of gender and child abuse. It argues that areas of concern, cur rently, cohere around the kinds of theory required and how power and gender should be understood. The art…
Disability and Social Work
Convergence or divergence? Responding to the abuse of disabled women
This paper examines three competing perspectives about appropriate positionings for disabled women in relation to abuse. It concludes that structural oppression must be challenged and proposes that the issue of disabled women and abuse is worthy of much greater attention and collaborative discussion
Reconstructing Mental Health Law and Policy
(2003). Reconstructing Mental Health Law and Policy. Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law: Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 97-100
Researching others
This article examines the possibility and challenges of carrying out research, especially \nqualitative and ethnographically-orientated research, into areas such as gender, disability, \nethnicity and racialization, without the researcher having direct experience of those specific \nsocial divisions and oppressions. Discussion of these questions is framed by four differential \nunderstandings of the concept of ‘otherness’ and linked with debates …
Contemporary Child Care Policy and Practice
No
Community involvement and Primary Care Trusts
This article looks at the different and sometimes conflicting policy drivers for a move towards greater community involvement in primary health care. In this context, research findings focusing on community involvement initiatives that have taken place within general practices, Primary Care Groups (PCGs) and Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) are explored and the key issues for implementation are appraised. Using an evaluation of a team set up to foster …
Consistencies and Inconsistencies
In relation to mental health, it is clear that medicalized underpinnings, the provision of a clinically orientated evidence base for practice and the need to contain ‘risk’ continue to be prioritized, particularly when compulsory intervention is considered. This is despite the increasing influence of a citizenship and social justice agenda which is being promoted by psychiatrists involved in the development of ‘postpsychiatry’, as well as by serv…
Child sexual abuse and Aboriginal communities in Australia
In this article, a particular event which occurred in the Northern Territory in Australia in 2007 is used to examine and constructively critique a government strategy that prioritised an invasive and non-participatory form of intervention. The justification for this course of action was the protection of Aboriginal children from sexual abuse. In order to examine both the action taken and the ongoing implications, a case study approach is adopted …
Vulnerability
English Vulnerability is a policy and practice concept which is often ascribed a fixed meaning with universal connotations. In this article, different conceptualizations of vulnerability are examined. It is argued that this exploration militates against the erosion of self-determination and autonomy and revitalizes working relationships between service users and professionals. French Vulnérabilité est un concept de politique et de pratique auquel…
The 'return to community
In Australia and the United Kingdom over the past two decades, the way human service professionals have been involved in 'communities', whether defined by 'place', 'interest' or 'exclusion', has varied with the political complexion of the government in power. This has resulted in both opportunities for and constraints on human services practice and community participation. In this article, the terminology and the conceptual frames associated with…
Neoliberalism, New Public Management and the human service professions
Mental Health and Older Women
Older women tend to be either rendered invisible in relation to considerations of mental health or, conversely, constructed as potential mental health problems. In this article, we draw attention to the position of older women with regard to current debates in the mental health field. It is argued that, within the UK and Australia, the prioritization of the management of risk and what an older woman cannot do rather than what she can adversely af…
International Perspectives on Mental Health
"Spanning an international evidence base, this book traces the development of contemporary theory, policy, and practice within the field of mental health. Drawing on snapshots from across the lifespan, it assesses the impact of issues such as gender and sexuality, and explores the range of global perspectives on mental ill health"
Well-Being and Older People
This article draws from research carried out in Australia, but makes connections with policy and practice in the four countries that comprise the UK into the relationship between the use of day clubs, sometimes referred to as day centres, and enhanced social connectedness, resilience, and mental and physical health. As part of this process, interpretations of commonly used terminology such as ‘care’, ‘protection’ and ‘vulnerability’ are subject t…
A National Disability Insurance Scheme
This paper appraises key features of the recently proposed National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) in Australia and explores underpinning conceptualisations of ‘disability’, ‘autonomy’, ‘choice’ and ‘assessment’. In particular, it examines the ways in which the Scheme reconfigures a continuation of individualised payments and care package policies. These proposals can be seen to have international significance in terms of how new policy is fo…
Children and disability
In the arena of disability, disabled children and young people continue to be positioned in a variety of ways with some of these affording opportunities and others continuing to focus on deficit and constraint. Social workers occupy a pivotal position at the interface between policy and practice, and can effectively counter circular processes of disablement. In this article, a frame of reference is employed which, by incorporating key areas such …
Turning Ideas Into Research
Part One: Thinking about research Chapter One: Why do research? Chapter Two: Partnerships in research Chapter Three: Ethical considerations Part Two: Thinking differently about knowledge and researching Chapter Four: Creating viable research from good ideas Chapter Five: Designing a research project: Qualitative researching Chapter Six: Designing a research project: Quantitative and mixed method researching Chapter Seven: Evaluative researching C…
Social Work Research in Practice
D’Cruz and Jones have produced a second edition of a highly successful book originally published in 2004. As the authors highlight, they have retained the structure and themes of the first edition
Refocusing on Early Intervention and Family Support
Since 2000, the New South Wales (NSW) Government in Australia has pursued major child welfare reforms. Responding to the ‘crisis in child protection’ and informed by a public health approach, key aims were to prevent child maltreatment and promote child welfare by ‘expanding and enhancing early intervention and family services’. This article critically reviews the aims, approach and main developments in NSW. The article argues that in several res…
Contrasts and reflections
This article compares field supervision in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to practices in a major city in England in order to contextualize the academic training of students. It considers practical dimensions and incorporates a qualitative study carried out in England exploring how the process of supervision in social work affects student learning and development from the supervisor’s perspective. In the study, particular attention is paid to field supp…
Birmingham Taking the Initiative
Turning rhetoric into reality and fully embracing the principles and practice of the Care Act 2014 in innovative, citizen-focused and creative ways has been a journey constructively embraced in Birmingham over the last two years. This has been a journey with critical learning points which incorporate theoretical reflection, managerial and practitioner innovation and an emphasis on citizen-focused co-production. This article considers the context,…
Feminisms in social work and social care
The various feminisms create a complex and sometimes contradictory picture. Within social work and social care, there has been a mixed reception. However, it is maintained that a gendered analysis in a profession where women remain in the majority remains highly relevant. In particular, the continuing and increasing pay gap and the relatively low numbers of women in senior positions are used as markers. Similarly, comparisons between ‘choice’ fem…
Older People, Loneliness, Social Isolation and Technological Mitigations
In this article, the effects of social isolation which can lead to increasing feelings of loneliness and abandonment for some are examined. The article analyses findings which emerged from a qualitative study carried out with older people in three distinct areas in Scotland (city, rural and urban) who were shielding during Covid-19. It focuses on the ways in which social isolation affected them and the extent to which information and communicatio…
Social Policy for Social Change
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