John Drayton
Biographic Data
| ID | 1250487 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Drayton |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Drayton |
| SIGNATURE | DRAYTON J |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Queensland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6688-1694 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Supporting the Recovery of NDIS Participants With Psychosocial Disability: A Narrative Literature Review
This narrative literature review examines key issues surrounding psychosocial disability support in the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). It highlights the NDIS's neoliberal approach to support, which has underpinned a lack of clarity around the conceptualisation of psychosocial disability and recovery. Several studies identified a mismatch between the episodic nature of mental illness and the NDIS's permanent disability criteria. Addi…
Understanding and responsiveness in the trauma-informed adult ESL classroom
This paper reports the findings of a critical qualitative study on trauma-informed teaching of English as a second language (ESL) at Australian universities. Post-traumatic stress affects verbal learning, yet most ESL teachers do not receive training in trauma-informed teaching. The field has suffered from a dearth of empirical studies and absence of student voice. This study used a validated tool to measure the post-traumatic stress of 39 partic…
Mind the gap: Incorporating writing skills into practice simulations
Writing skills are an essential component of social work practice. Writing skills include both reflective writing skills, that is writing about one’s practice, and professional writing skills, that is writing in practice. The latter includes emails, letters, reports, referrals and applications for resources. Classroom-based simulations are intended to promote holistic competency and provide an ideal context for the development of both reflective …
Social work, contradiction and belief: The liminal space between faith and fact
This article considers a commonplace aspect of conversation as a marker of spiritual experience with significance for social work theory and practice. Working from the notion of spirituality as an active construction of meaning in which sectarian belief and practice play a non-essential role (if any), data from a series of interviews with bereaved research participants are used to explore statements denoting a problematization of linear rationali…
Scrutinising the Other: Incapacity, Suspicion and Manipulation in a Death Investigation
In common law countries like England, Australia, the USA and Canada, certain deaths come to be investigated through the coronial system. These include sudden, unnatural or suspicious deaths as well as those which appear to be the result of naturally occurring disease but the precise cause is unknown. When a reportable death occurs in Australia, a number of professional groups become involved in its investigation – police, coroners, pathologists a…
Bodies-in-Life/Bodies-in-Death: Social Work, Coronial Autopsies and the Bonds of Identity
This paper addresses an aspect of bereavement which has received scant attention: the various meanings of the dead body for the bereaved person and the practical implications of these for social workers in the field of grief and loss. The discussion is embedded within a consideration of the role of social work in the field. The practice context is discussed and the literature of attachment in bereavement and conceptualisations of the dead body br…
Organ Retention and Bereavement: Family Counselling and the Ethics of Consultation
Taking organisational responses to the ‘organ retention scandals’ in the United Kingdom and Australia as a starting point, this paper considers the role of social welfare workers within the medico-legal system. Official responses to the inquiries of the late 1990s have focused on issues of consent and process-transparency, leaving unaddressed concerns expressed by the bereaved about the impact of organ retention on both their experience of grief …
Scrutinising the Other: Incapacity, Suspicion and Manipulation in a Death Investigation
In common law countries like England, Australia, the USA and Canada, certain deaths come to be investigated through the coronial system. These include sudden, unnatural or suspicious deaths as well as those which appear to be the result of naturally occurring disease but the precise cause is unknown. When a reportable death occurs in Australia, a number of professional groups become involved in its investigation – police, coroners, pathologists a…
Bodies-in-Life/Bodies-in-Death: Social Work, Coronial Autopsies and the Bonds of Identity
This paper addresses an aspect of bereavement which has received scant attention: the various meanings of the dead body for the bereaved person and the practical implications of these for social workers in the field of grief and loss. The discussion is embedded within a consideration of the role of social work in the field. The practice context is discussed and the literature of attachment in bereavement and conceptualisations of the dead body br…
Organ Retention and Bereavement: Family Counselling and the Ethics of Consultation
Taking organisational responses to the ‘organ retention scandals’ in the United Kingdom and Australia as a starting point, this paper considers the role of social welfare workers within the medico-legal system. Official responses to the inquiries of the late 1990s have focused on issues of consent and process-transparency, leaving unaddressed concerns expressed by the bereaved about the impact of organ retention on both their experience of grief …
Organ Retention and Bereavement: Family Counselling and the Ethics of Consultation
Taking organisational responses to the ‘organ retention scandals’ in the United Kingdom and Australia as a starting point, this paper considers the role of social welfare workers within the medico-legal system. Official responses to the inquiries of the late 1990s have focused on issues of consent and process-transparency, leaving unaddressed concerns expressed by the bereaved about the impact of organ retention on both their experience of grief …
Bodies-in-Life/Bodies-in-Death: Social Work, Coronial Autopsies and the Bonds of Identity
This paper addresses an aspect of bereavement which has received scant attention: the various meanings of the dead body for the bereaved person and the practical implications of these for social workers in the field of grief and loss. The discussion is embedded within a consideration of the role of social work in the field. The practice context is discussed and the literature of attachment in bereavement and conceptualisations of the dead body br…
Scrutinising the Other: Incapacity, Suspicion and Manipulation in a Death Investigation
In common law countries like England, Australia, the USA and Canada, certain deaths come to be investigated through the coronial system. These include sudden, unnatural or suspicious deaths as well as those which appear to be the result of naturally occurring disease but the precise cause is unknown. When a reportable death occurs in Australia, a number of professional groups become involved in its investigation – police, coroners, pathologists a…
Social work, contradiction and belief: The liminal space between faith and fact
This article considers a commonplace aspect of conversation as a marker of spiritual experience with significance for social work theory and practice. Working from the notion of spirituality as an active construction of meaning in which sectarian belief and practice play a non-essential role (if any), data from a series of interviews with bereaved research participants are used to explore statements denoting a problematization of linear rationali…
Mind the gap: Incorporating writing skills into practice simulations
Writing skills are an essential component of social work practice. Writing skills include both reflective writing skills, that is writing about one’s practice, and professional writing skills, that is writing in practice. The latter includes emails, letters, reports, referrals and applications for resources. Classroom-based simulations are intended to promote holistic competency and provide an ideal context for the development of both reflective …
Understanding and responsiveness in the trauma-informed adult ESL classroom
This paper reports the findings of a critical qualitative study on trauma-informed teaching of English as a second language (ESL) at Australian universities. Post-traumatic stress affects verbal learning, yet most ESL teachers do not receive training in trauma-informed teaching. The field has suffered from a dearth of empirical studies and absence of student voice. This study used a validated tool to measure the post-traumatic stress of 39 partic…
Supporting the Recovery of NDIS Participants With Psychosocial Disability: A Narrative Literature Review
This narrative literature review examines key issues surrounding psychosocial disability support in the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). It highlights the NDIS's neoliberal approach to support, which has underpinned a lack of clarity around the conceptualisation of psychosocial disability and recovery. Several studies identified a mismatch between the episodic nature of mental illness and the NDIS's permanent disability criteria. Addi…
Psychology (7 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Psychotherapist (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Grief (2 works) · History (2 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (2 works) · Law (2 works)