Susan Gair
Biographic Data
| ID | 165814 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susan Gair |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susan |
| FAMILY NAME | Gair |
| SIGNATURE | GAIR S |
| AFFILIATIONS | James Cook University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2139-0269 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 139 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Intersecting stigmas place young mothers at risk of abuse and ongoing family violence
Evidence suggests that stigma is a pervasive aspect of the social climate surrounding teenage motherhood. Domestic and family violence disproportionately can be experienced by teenage girls, and teen mothers may experience unique forms of stigma and violence. This article presents findings from a recent PhD study that explored the experiences and reflections of former teenage mothers regarding how they navigated their lives from adolescent mother…
Upholding Professional Judgement in Social Work amid the Rise of Artificial Intelligence
In recent times, as Journal Editor I have been in a heightened state of alertness about the growing use of generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) in social work practice, research, and publish...
Decolonising Social Work and Implementing Restorative Practice
Honouring the Legitimacy and Power of Shared Lived Experience in Social Work
Reflecting on Resilience, Recovery, and Needs-Based Service Delivery
At-risk Youth Peer Researchers Highlight Safety and “The Bonds You Make With Staff and Peers”
The over-representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in the juvenile justice system is an ongoing social justice issue. Here we report on our latest research project within an ongoing industry partnership between staff at The Lighthouse and social work researchers from a regional Queensland University. The Lighthouse is a diversionary service provided by the Townsville Aboriginal and Islander Health Service (TAIHS) that suppo…
The Prevailing Contexts of Domestic and Family Violence and Child Protection
Artificial Intelligence and Implications for the Australian Social Work Journal
Using Photography to Capture Young People’s Views About Community and Local Service Delivery
Youth offending has received significant attention in recent years in Queensland and across Australia. While the voices of young people who are offending or at risk of offending are evident in some studies, other reports do not identify them as key stakeholders. A recent university–industry research collaboration sought to prioritise the voices of young people engaging with The Lighthouse, a diversionary service within Townsville Aboriginal and I…
The Voices of “At Risk” Young People About Services They Received: A Systematic Literature Review
In Australia young people who are at risk of offending have attracted much media and policy attention. In recent times, policy reform has seen increased funding for social services delivery to support young people at risk of entering, or are currently in, the juvenile justice system. However, there is limited literature that explores how young people experience services delivered to them. This article reports on a systematic literature review exp…
Social Work Research with Industry: A Systematic Literature Review of Engagement and Impact
Current research agendas in developed countries focus on academics engaging collaboratively with communities and industry partners to achieve research outcomes that demonstrate reach and significance. Social work academics are in a prime position to undertake collaborative research that has specific project benefits and wider social impacts. This article reports on a systematic literature review of articles in social work journals that reported o…
In the Firing Line’: Grandparent Carers at Risk of Family Violence
Grandparent Carers, Child Protection Practice, and the Best Interests of Children: A Case Study
Increasingly, grandparents are involved in the care of grandchildren, particularly after child safety concerns. Some grandparents, because of changed circumstances, relationships, or decisions made, can experience reduced or lost contact with grandchildren. A recent qualitative, collaborative study explored how relationships between grandparents and their grandchildren could be optimised after child safety concerns. Many grandparents in that stud…
Convenient Yet Neglected: The Role of Grandparent Kinship Carers
Grandparents are increasingly involved in the care and protection of grandchildren. The qualitative Australian study reported here explored how contact between grandparents and their grandchildren could be optimised after child-safety concerns. Interviews and focus groups with seventy-seven participants were undertaken in 2016. In total, fifty-one grandparents and aunties in grand parenting roles, twelve parents, six foster-carers and eight child…
Grandparents matter: Optimizing grandparents' involvement after child safety concerns
Across Australia and internationally, growing numbers of grandparents are becoming primary carers for grandchildren, both within and outside of formal state care arrangements. Underlying factors include family breakdown, family circumstances where parents are unable to care for their children, or where there are child safety concerns. Some grandparents report a pattern of initially providing care for grandchildren but then experiencing reduced or…
Mature-aged Social Work Students: Challenges, Study Realities, and Experiences of Poverty
There has been a substantial increase in mature-aged students enrolled in higher education in recent decades. Equally, mature-aged women, often with family responsibilities, are well represented in social work degree programs. In this article, the findings from the National Study of Social Work Students (NSSWS) are examined in relation to mature-age students to better understand their study experiences, and factors that may be impeding their abil…
Upholding social justice: Obligation or optional extra in social work? Critical reflections on a classroom-based inquiry
Internationally, the pursuit of social justice is core to social work and social work education. In Australia, since British colonization, Indigenous peoples have suffered significant human rights violations, oppression, and racial discrimination. Some key literature suggests that cultivating empathy can facilitate action to challenge human rights violations and reduce racism. Previous research with social work students at a regional Australian u…
Australian Social Work Students Balancing Study, Work, and Field Placement: Seeing it Like it Is
Completing tertiary studies can involve personal and financial sacrifices for some students. Equally, past and more recent research has highlighted financial pressures for students undertaking courses with compulsory field placements, although larger national Australian studies appear to be limited in number. In a recent study, a sample of 2,320 social work students from 29 Australian universities completed an online survey on the impact of low l…
Pondering the Colour of Empathy: Social Work Students’ Reasoning on Activism, Empathy and Racism
Australia is a multicultural society. However, its history of British colonisation has contributed to enduring overt and covert discrimination, racism and black/white racial divisions. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are the recipients of ongoing racial discrimination, they are the most disadvantage groups in Australia and they are significantly overrepresented as social work clients. An anti-racist stance is core to social work pra…
Sharing Qualitative Research: Showing Lived Experience and Community Narratives
New media technologies and the narrative turn in qualitative research has expanded the methods through which we gather data about and share findings of groups who have traditionally been written about by others rather than telling their own stories to reveal the complexities of their experiences.This chapter explores two projects that use storytelling and technology in an effort to change public perceptions about disadvantaged a community or coho…
Missing Grandchildren: Grandparents’ Lost Contact and Implications for Social Work
The critical importance of maintaining family contact and intergenerational relationships for ongoing wellbeing is known to social work. Equally known is the damage caused by severed relationships. Recent literature has suggested an increased incidence of grandparents raising their grandchildren, often after family breakdown. Less evident in the literature is grandparents’ experience of reduced, lost, or denied contact with their grandchildren. I…
Racism Unmasked: The Experiences of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Students in Social Work Field Placements
Attracting more Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to the social work profession is an important strategy in responding to Indigenous disadvantage. The literature suggests that the inclusion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, knowledge, and skills in social work is impeded by racism and white privilege. This article reports on a research project that aimed to explore the field education experiences of Aboriginal and Torres…
Unspeakable stories: When counter narratives are deemed unacceptable
Purpose Qualitative researchers embrace insider narratives and affirm an environment where stories of lived experiences are acceptable and welcomed. Equally, subjective narratives often are presented for publication with an assumption that they will reach a readership, after a rigorous but empathic review process. Such assumptions and expectations underpin Indigenous, postmodern, feminist, critical and narrative research and writing approaches, a…
Feeling Their Stories: Contemplating Empathy, Insider/Outsider Positionings, and Enriching Qualitative Research
Empathy is a very familiar term in the helping and caring literature. What appears to link empathy in the helping literature to the aims and goals of qualitative research and, in particular, to the argument underpinning insider/outsider debates, is a discernible common quest. That quest is to be able to hear, feel, understand, and value the stories of others and to convey that felt empathy and understanding back to the client/storyteller/particip…
Exploring Empathy Embedded in Ethics Curricula: A Classroom Inquiry
Empathy is considered to be a crucial ingredient in social work practice. Research on empathy is abundant although literature describing the teaching and learning of empathy, and in what contexts empathy might be taught best, is less common. The primary aim of this exploratory, classroom-based research undertaken in 2011 was to explore empathy with second year, social work students, thereby building on previous research, and linking it to educati…
Feeling Their Stories: Contemplating Empathy, Insider/Outsider Positionings, and Enriching Qualitative Research
Empathy is a very familiar term in the helping and caring literature. What appears to link empathy in the helping literature to the aims and goals of qualitative research and, in particular, to the argument underpinning insider/outsider debates, is a discernible common quest. That quest is to be able to hear, feel, understand, and value the stories of others and to convey that felt empathy and understanding back to the client/storyteller/particip…
Mature-aged Social Work Students: Challenges, Study Realities, and Experiences of Poverty
There has been a substantial increase in mature-aged students enrolled in higher education in recent decades. Equally, mature-aged women, often with family responsibilities, are well represented in social work degree programs. In this article, the findings from the National Study of Social Work Students (NSSWS) are examined in relation to mature-age students to better understand their study experiences, and factors that may be impeding their abil…
Australian Social Work Students Balancing Study, Work, and Field Placement: Seeing it Like it Is
Completing tertiary studies can involve personal and financial sacrifices for some students. Equally, past and more recent research has highlighted financial pressures for students undertaking courses with compulsory field placements, although larger national Australian studies appear to be limited in number. In a recent study, a sample of 2,320 social work students from 29 Australian universities completed an online survey on the impact of low l…
Racism Unmasked: The Experiences of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Students in Social Work Field Placements
Attracting more Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to the social work profession is an important strategy in responding to Indigenous disadvantage. The literature suggests that the inclusion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, knowledge, and skills in social work is impeded by racism and white privilege. This article reports on a research project that aimed to explore the field education experiences of Aboriginal and Torres…
Distress and depression in new motherhood: Research with adoptive mothers highlights important contributing factors
Feminist, sociological literature concerned with mothering and motherhood reveals that the reality of mothering within the sometimes contradictory and invalidating context of western society may bring forth a range of emotional responses, some of which are unexpected negative responses. In a recent study with adoptive mothers in Queensland, Australia, experiences at significant points across the adoption life cycle were explored. These experience…
Convenient Yet Neglected: The Role of Grandparent Kinship Carers
Grandparents are increasingly involved in the care and protection of grandchildren. The qualitative Australian study reported here explored how contact between grandparents and their grandchildren could be optimised after child-safety concerns. Interviews and focus groups with seventy-seven participants were undertaken in 2016. In total, fifty-one grandparents and aunties in grand parenting roles, twelve parents, six foster-carers and eight child…
Missing Grandchildren: Grandparents’ Lost Contact and Implications for Social Work
The critical importance of maintaining family contact and intergenerational relationships for ongoing wellbeing is known to social work. Equally known is the damage caused by severed relationships. Recent literature has suggested an increased incidence of grandparents raising their grandchildren, often after family breakdown. Less evident in the literature is grandparents’ experience of reduced, lost, or denied contact with their grandchildren. I…
Social Work Students' Thoughts on Their (in)Ability to Empathise with a Birth Mother's Story: Pondering the Need for a Deeper Focus on Empathy
Empathy is considered in the literature to be crucial to any successful therapeutic engagement. But how to teach, learn and ‘do’ empathy seems much less clear. Susan Gair discusses how, through the use of selected narratives in a classroom-based inquiry, second-year social work students at a regional Australian university were guided to define the concept of empathy and to reflect on their ability to empathise. Findings illuminated some students'…
Coping with Differences in Mothering Adopted Children considering a Broader Model
Grandparents matter: Optimizing grandparents' involvement after child safety concerns
Across Australia and internationally, growing numbers of grandparents are becoming primary carers for grandchildren, both within and outside of formal state care arrangements. Underlying factors include family breakdown, family circumstances where parents are unable to care for their children, or where there are child safety concerns. Some grandparents report a pattern of initially providing care for grandchildren but then experiencing reduced or…
Pondering the Colour of Empathy: Social Work Students’ Reasoning on Activism, Empathy and Racism
Australia is a multicultural society. However, its history of British colonisation has contributed to enduring overt and covert discrimination, racism and black/white racial divisions. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are the recipients of ongoing racial discrimination, they are the most disadvantage groups in Australia and they are significantly overrepresented as social work clients. An anti-racist stance is core to social work pra…
It Takes a Community
Most lesbian and gay people are traumatized by being raised in a society that denigrates and devalues their sexual orientation. Experiences of trauma during identity development are non-mirroring and can be psychic assaults. The ever-presence of the trauma renders it hidden and difficult for the patient and therapist to address. This paper will examine the psychic impact of this trauma and treatment concerns, particularly problems of shame, hidin…
Attempting suicide and help-seeking behaviours: Using stories from young people to inform social work practice
In recent decades Australia has recorded one of the highest youth suicide rates worldwide. Attempted suicide is considered to be up to 50 times more common than completed suicides. This small, qualitative study, undertaken in North Queensland, aimed to offer a window into young people's lives concerning their suicide attempt(s) and their help-seeking behaviours. In-depth interviews were undertaken with nine young people. Findings reveal help was …
The Voices of “At Risk” Young People About Services They Received: A Systematic Literature Review
In Australia young people who are at risk of offending have attracted much media and policy attention. In recent times, policy reform has seen increased funding for social services delivery to support young people at risk of entering, or are currently in, the juvenile justice system. However, there is limited literature that explores how young people experience services delivered to them. This article reports on a systematic literature review exp…
In the Firing Line’: Grandparent Carers at Risk of Family Violence
Pursing Indigenous-Inclusive Curriculum in Social Work Tertiary Education: Feeling my Way as a Non-Indigenous Educator
The retention and completion rates of Indigenous students undertaking tertiary studies continue to be disappointing. The contribution of Eurocentric curricula to such an outcome has been proposed in the Australian and international literature. Remaining very conscious of my status as a white, female, social work educator teaching at a regional university, over the last six years I have attempted to pursue the development of a more Indigenous-incl…
Artificial Intelligence and Implications for the Australian Social Work Journal
Upholding social justice: Obligation or optional extra in social work? Critical reflections on a classroom-based inquiry
Internationally, the pursuit of social justice is core to social work and social work education. In Australia, since British colonization, Indigenous peoples have suffered significant human rights violations, oppression, and racial discrimination. Some key literature suggests that cultivating empathy can facilitate action to challenge human rights violations and reduce racism. Previous research with social work students at a regional Australian u…
Unspeakable stories: When counter narratives are deemed unacceptable
Purpose Qualitative researchers embrace insider narratives and affirm an environment where stories of lived experiences are acceptable and welcomed. Equally, subjective narratives often are presented for publication with an assumption that they will reach a readership, after a rigorous but empathic review process. Such assumptions and expectations underpin Indigenous, postmodern, feminist, critical and narrative research and writing approaches, a…
Adoptive Mothers' Attitudes to Contact: Highlights from an Australian Study
The topic of contact and reunion can be a complex and emotional one for birth parents, adopted people and adoptive families. While the perspectives of birth parents and adopted people regarding contact are evident in the literature, the range of possible attitudes taken up by adoptive parents are not extensively discussed. In this paper Susan Gair explores coping positions or attitudes taken by adoptive mothers in Queensland on the topic of conta…
Honouring the Legitimacy and Power of Shared Lived Experience in Social Work
Reflecting on Resilience, Recovery, and Needs-Based Service Delivery
The Prevailing Contexts of Domestic and Family Violence and Child Protection
Using Photography to Capture Young People’s Views About Community and Local Service Delivery
Youth offending has received significant attention in recent years in Queensland and across Australia. While the voices of young people who are offending or at risk of offending are evident in some studies, other reports do not identify them as key stakeholders. A recent university–industry research collaboration sought to prioritise the voices of young people engaging with The Lighthouse, a diversionary service within Townsville Aboriginal and I…
Postnatal depression and the birthing process: Contrary evidence from the experience of adoptive mothers
‘Practice Forum’ is intended to provide a forum for social work practitioners to share their practice with others; to describe what they are doing and assess its effectiveness. We extend an invitation to all social work practitioners to submit articles for ‘Practice Forum’ and we look forward to receiving your contribution. Postnatal depression and the birthing process: Contrary evidence from the experiences of adoptive mothers In recent years mu…
Coping with Differences in Mothering Adopted Children considering a Broader Model
Distress and depression in new motherhood: Research with adoptive mothers highlights important contributing factors
Feminist, sociological literature concerned with mothering and motherhood reveals that the reality of mothering within the sometimes contradictory and invalidating context of western society may bring forth a range of emotional responses, some of which are unexpected negative responses. In a recent study with adoptive mothers in Queensland, Australia, experiences at significant points across the adoption life cycle were explored. These experience…
Adoptive Mothers' Attitudes to Contact: Highlights from an Australian Study
The topic of contact and reunion can be a complex and emotional one for birth parents, adopted people and adoptive families. While the perspectives of birth parents and adopted people regarding contact are evident in the literature, the range of possible attitudes taken up by adoptive parents are not extensively discussed. In this paper Susan Gair explores coping positions or attitudes taken by adoptive mothers in Queensland on the topic of conta…
In the Thick of it: A Reflective Tale from an Australian Social Worker/Qualitative Researcher
Engagement in qualitative research incorporating feminist principles means that researchers must view themselves within the research boundaries and actively render transparent their own research experiences. This researcher explored motherhood with 50 adoptive mothers across Queensland, Australia. This article describes in detail her motivation for undertaking the study and some of her personal thoughts about, and experiences with, qualitative, f…
Attempting suicide and help-seeking behaviours: Using stories from young people to inform social work practice
In recent decades Australia has recorded one of the highest youth suicide rates worldwide. Attempted suicide is considered to be up to 50 times more common than completed suicides. This small, qualitative study, undertaken in North Queensland, aimed to offer a window into young people's lives concerning their suicide attempt(s) and their help-seeking behaviours. In-depth interviews were undertaken with nine young people. Findings reveal help was …
It Takes a Community
Most lesbian and gay people are traumatized by being raised in a society that denigrates and devalues their sexual orientation. Experiences of trauma during identity development are non-mirroring and can be psychic assaults. The ever-presence of the trauma renders it hidden and difficult for the patient and therapist to address. This paper will examine the psychic impact of this trauma and treatment concerns, particularly problems of shame, hidin…
Pursing Indigenous-Inclusive Curriculum in Social Work Tertiary Education: Feeling my Way as a Non-Indigenous Educator
The retention and completion rates of Indigenous students undertaking tertiary studies continue to be disappointing. The contribution of Eurocentric curricula to such an outcome has been proposed in the Australian and international literature. Remaining very conscious of my status as a white, female, social work educator teaching at a regional university, over the last six years I have attempted to pursue the development of a more Indigenous-incl…
Social Work Students' Thoughts on Their (in)Ability to Empathise with a Birth Mother's Story: Pondering the Need for a Deeper Focus on Empathy
Empathy is considered in the literature to be crucial to any successful therapeutic engagement. But how to teach, learn and ‘do’ empathy seems much less clear. Susan Gair discusses how, through the use of selected narratives in a classroom-based inquiry, second-year social work students at a regional Australian university were guided to define the concept of empathy and to reflect on their ability to empathise. Findings illuminated some students'…
Exploring Empathy Embedded in Ethics Curricula: A Classroom Inquiry
Empathy is considered to be a crucial ingredient in social work practice. Research on empathy is abundant although literature describing the teaching and learning of empathy, and in what contexts empathy might be taught best, is less common. The primary aim of this exploratory, classroom-based research undertaken in 2011 was to explore empathy with second year, social work students, thereby building on previous research, and linking it to educati…
Feeling Their Stories: Contemplating Empathy, Insider/Outsider Positionings, and Enriching Qualitative Research
Empathy is a very familiar term in the helping and caring literature. What appears to link empathy in the helping literature to the aims and goals of qualitative research and, in particular, to the argument underpinning insider/outsider debates, is a discernible common quest. That quest is to be able to hear, feel, understand, and value the stories of others and to convey that felt empathy and understanding back to the client/storyteller/particip…
Unspeakable stories: When counter narratives are deemed unacceptable
Purpose Qualitative researchers embrace insider narratives and affirm an environment where stories of lived experiences are acceptable and welcomed. Equally, subjective narratives often are presented for publication with an assumption that they will reach a readership, after a rigorous but empathic review process. Such assumptions and expectations underpin Indigenous, postmodern, feminist, critical and narrative research and writing approaches, a…
Racism Unmasked: The Experiences of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Students in Social Work Field Placements
Attracting more Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to the social work profession is an important strategy in responding to Indigenous disadvantage. The literature suggests that the inclusion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, knowledge, and skills in social work is impeded by racism and white privilege. This article reports on a research project that aimed to explore the field education experiences of Aboriginal and Torres…
Sharing Qualitative Research: Showing Lived Experience and Community Narratives
New media technologies and the narrative turn in qualitative research has expanded the methods through which we gather data about and share findings of groups who have traditionally been written about by others rather than telling their own stories to reveal the complexities of their experiences.This chapter explores two projects that use storytelling and technology in an effort to change public perceptions about disadvantaged a community or coho…
Missing Grandchildren: Grandparents’ Lost Contact and Implications for Social Work
The critical importance of maintaining family contact and intergenerational relationships for ongoing wellbeing is known to social work. Equally known is the damage caused by severed relationships. Recent literature has suggested an increased incidence of grandparents raising their grandchildren, often after family breakdown. Less evident in the literature is grandparents’ experience of reduced, lost, or denied contact with their grandchildren. I…
Upholding social justice: Obligation or optional extra in social work? Critical reflections on a classroom-based inquiry
Internationally, the pursuit of social justice is core to social work and social work education. In Australia, since British colonization, Indigenous peoples have suffered significant human rights violations, oppression, and racial discrimination. Some key literature suggests that cultivating empathy can facilitate action to challenge human rights violations and reduce racism. Previous research with social work students at a regional Australian u…
Australian Social Work Students Balancing Study, Work, and Field Placement: Seeing it Like it Is
Completing tertiary studies can involve personal and financial sacrifices for some students. Equally, past and more recent research has highlighted financial pressures for students undertaking courses with compulsory field placements, although larger national Australian studies appear to be limited in number. In a recent study, a sample of 2,320 social work students from 29 Australian universities completed an online survey on the impact of low l…
Pondering the Colour of Empathy: Social Work Students’ Reasoning on Activism, Empathy and Racism
Australia is a multicultural society. However, its history of British colonisation has contributed to enduring overt and covert discrimination, racism and black/white racial divisions. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are the recipients of ongoing racial discrimination, they are the most disadvantage groups in Australia and they are significantly overrepresented as social work clients. An anti-racist stance is core to social work pra…
Grandparents matter: Optimizing grandparents' involvement after child safety concerns
Across Australia and internationally, growing numbers of grandparents are becoming primary carers for grandchildren, both within and outside of formal state care arrangements. Underlying factors include family breakdown, family circumstances where parents are unable to care for their children, or where there are child safety concerns. Some grandparents report a pattern of initially providing care for grandchildren but then experiencing reduced or…
Mature-aged Social Work Students: Challenges, Study Realities, and Experiences of Poverty
There has been a substantial increase in mature-aged students enrolled in higher education in recent decades. Equally, mature-aged women, often with family responsibilities, are well represented in social work degree programs. In this article, the findings from the National Study of Social Work Students (NSSWS) are examined in relation to mature-age students to better understand their study experiences, and factors that may be impeding their abil…
Social Work Research with Industry: A Systematic Literature Review of Engagement and Impact
Current research agendas in developed countries focus on academics engaging collaboratively with communities and industry partners to achieve research outcomes that demonstrate reach and significance. Social work academics are in a prime position to undertake collaborative research that has specific project benefits and wider social impacts. This article reports on a systematic literature review of articles in social work journals that reported o…
In the Firing Line’: Grandparent Carers at Risk of Family Violence
Grandparent Carers, Child Protection Practice, and the Best Interests of Children: A Case Study
Increasingly, grandparents are involved in the care of grandchildren, particularly after child safety concerns. Some grandparents, because of changed circumstances, relationships, or decisions made, can experience reduced or lost contact with grandchildren. A recent qualitative, collaborative study explored how relationships between grandparents and their grandchildren could be optimised after child safety concerns. Many grandparents in that stud…
Convenient Yet Neglected: The Role of Grandparent Kinship Carers
Grandparents are increasingly involved in the care and protection of grandchildren. The qualitative Australian study reported here explored how contact between grandparents and their grandchildren could be optimised after child-safety concerns. Interviews and focus groups with seventy-seven participants were undertaken in 2016. In total, fifty-one grandparents and aunties in grand parenting roles, twelve parents, six foster-carers and eight child…
The Voices of “At Risk” Young People About Services They Received: A Systematic Literature Review
In Australia young people who are at risk of offending have attracted much media and policy attention. In recent times, policy reform has seen increased funding for social services delivery to support young people at risk of entering, or are currently in, the juvenile justice system. However, there is limited literature that explores how young people experience services delivered to them. This article reports on a systematic literature review exp…
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