Holly Mclaren
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 170814 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Holly Mclaren |
| NOMBRES | Holly |
| APELLIDO | Mclaren |
| FIRMA | MCLAREN H |
| AFILIACIONES | Flinders University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1959-8319 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 48 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 110 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 48 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2007 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Intersectional Identities of Men and Their Influence on Children's Gender Socialization in Family Settings
Gender socialization is a lifelong process that guides children in shaping their identities, opportunities, and perspectives during early years. Within the family environment, men hold a pivotal position, influenced by tradition, economic factors, and family structure, which significantly impacts the socialization of children. This systematic review examines the intersecting social identities and systems of power that shape men's roles in the gen…
Understanding Childhood Sexual Abuse and its Association With Psychological Traumatisation, Re-traumatisation, and Shame in Adult South Asian Women
Research on childhood sexual abuse (CSA) often reflects Eurocentric perspectives, limiting understanding of its cultural dimensions in collectivist societies. This scoping review examined how CSA shapes adult South Asian women’s experiences of shame, and how this culturally embedded shame contributes to re-traumatisation, re-victimisation, and barriers to help-seeking in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. Using PRISMA-ScR guidelines, we systematica…
Embracing risk
Young pregnant care-leavers in danger of having their infant removed are positioned as both exposed to risk (e.g. as a result of their vulnerability) and posing a risk to others (e.g. their child). They are at the transition between being a child and becoming a parent within the welfare system. Often considered hard-to-reach, young pregnant care-leavers are high-risk and complex clients. ‘My Place’ is a South Australian trauma responsive service …
Making a Home for Individuals With Serious Mental Illness
Collaborating for Justice
In this article, authors examined the integration of religion and spirituality in developing Timor-Leste’s first university-level social work degree, reflecting the nation’s unique socio-political and cultural context. Development drew on Australian social work principles (AASW, 2024) to ensure alignment with professional standards, while faith perspectives were embedded for local relevance. Although culturally responsive practice is common in Eu…
Understanding Biographical and Socio-Historical Factors Influencing Caregiving Experiences of Indian ‘Flying’ Grandparents
This study explores the biographical and socio-historical factors that influence caregiving experiences of Indian ‘flying’ grandparents, who fly in and fly out of Australia to care for their grandchildren. Thirty-one grandparents were purposely recruited or snowball sampled. Data collected through in-depth interviews was coded and themed using steps of interpretative phenomenological analysis. This was followed by reinterpretation of data through…
Health and Well‐Being Beyond Residential Care
Care leavers often encounter considerable health and well‐being challenges, underscoring the need for continued support into early adulthood. This small‐scale mixed‐methods study explored the health, well‐being and extended care experiences of participants in the South Australian Next Steps pilot program for residential care leavers, assessed by statutory child protection as having significant or extreme levels of need. There were two study compo…
Equipped for the Frontline? Alcohol and other Drug-Related Competencies among Australian Social Workers
Visibility of alcohol and other drug subjects and careers provided by Australian social work programs
A concept evolution inspired by Delphi
The intergenerational effect of grandmothers’ trauma on offspring’s psychological distress in Cambodian skipped-generation households
While the intergenerational effects of Khmer Rouge trauma, particularly in parenting style, have been extensively studied, research on its longer term impacts into the third generation remains limited. Adopting quantitative research methods, this study delved into the intergenerational trauma transmission from grandmothers to their adult daughters, and subsequently to their grandchildren in their care among migrant skipped-generation households i…
Developing the Linker/Navigator Service Blueprint
This paper analyses the experiences and management of power during the co‐production of a service blueprint for The Linker Service—a service aimed to assist women over 50 years old, sole parents and carers experiencing financial hardship to navigate service systems and supports in South Australia. We specifically focus on the co‐production of the service blueprint. In the timeline of events, co‐production was facilitated between (1) co‐design of …
Early Intervention Program for High-Risk Youth
A Scoping Review of Changes to Patient-Doctor Communication During Covid-19
theme included insights into doctors' workload, isolation, and anxiety and how changes requiring increases in virtual consults iteratively altered confidence in care provision and communication with patients. Results of the scoping review provide important insights for strengthening virtual patient-doctor interactions, including target areas for training and professional development during and beyond the current pandemic
Health and Social Care Outcomes in the Community
The aims of this integrative review included examining the intervention characteristics, religious tailoring, and behavioural outcomes of health and social care interventions with Muslim-minorities in Australia, Canada, UK, and the USA. Nineteen articles were included, and each showed some level of improved health and social care outcomes associated with interventions that were religiously tailored to Islamic teachings, and when notions of health…
Interprofessional Education in Child Protection for Preservice Health and Allied Health Professionals
Health and allied health professionals are uniquely positioned to collaborate in prevention, early intervention and responses to child maltreatment. Effective collaboration requires comprehensive interprofessional education (IPE), and inadequate collaboration across sectors and professions continually contributes to poor outcomes for children. Little is known about what interprofessional preparation health and allied health professionals receive …
Professional Quality of Life of Foster and Kinship Carers in Australia, United Kingdom, and the United States
Professional quality of life (ProQOL) refers to workers’ subjective feelings associated with work involved in helping others who have experienced trauma. It consists of positive and negative aspects, that is, subscales of compassion satisfaction, and burnout and secondary traumatic stress. Foster and kinship caring inherently involves risks associated with exposure to the trauma responses of children in their care. This exposure can lead to poor …
Social Support Postpartum
Undertaken in Kolkata, India, our study aimed to explore the experiences of Bengali middle-class women on perceived stressful events, social support, and coping experiences following childbirth. Becoming a mother following childbirth is a shared phenomenon irrespective of culture, social strata, or country, while stress during the postpartum period or depression is not. Discrete medical intervention does not sufficiently address the complexities …
Stakeholder experiences collaborating with My Place
My Place is a therapeutic and health service for high-risk, vulnerable children and youth (12–25 years), connected with the child protection system, who are pregnant or parents whose infants are at risk of removal. Qualitative interpretive phenomenology guided the focus group interviews with staff, stakeholders and health consumers (n = 30). My Place was reported to be trauma-responsive, culturally-sensitive model of care and was viewed as respon…
Reconsidering Recognition in the Lives of Children and Young People in Care
This study explored the experiences of children and young people in the Mockingbird Family, South Australia, during implementation and roll-out. The study involved semi-structured interviews with a diverse group of 54 participants, including 21 children and young people, 12 foster carers, and 14 agency workers. Thematic analysis, with the application of Axel Honneth’s recognition theory, showed the Mockingbird Family model to validate the emotion…
Keeping Siblings in Care Connected
Children and young people in Australian foster or kinship care are separated from their siblings for a range of reasons. These may include issues that are behavioural, sibling-related, the capacity of carers to host multiple children, or policies that enforce a one-child-per-bedroom rule. This study investigated strategies enhancing stability and meaningful connections among siblings within the Mockingbird Family, a social network model of foster…
Professional quality of life of Australian Mockingbird FamilyTM foster carers
Children’s behaviours and support system typology are potential predictors of foster carer compassion satisfaction, burnout, and secondary traumatic stress (i.e., Professional Quality of Life, ProQOL). Little is known about the ProQOL of Mockingbird FamilyTM foster carers compared to foster carers caregiving as usual. This study aimed to: Examine ProQOL of Mockingbird FamilyTM carers compared to other carers; Explain associations between ProQOL, …
Community Cultural Wealth among a South Australian Muslim Population
Muslims living in non-Muslim countries may experience marginality, which has associations with exclusion, poor socio-emotional health, higher rates of family violence, and poor quality of life. Faith-based strategies have the potential to bridge the gaps and improve the outcomes for these communities. We undertook a reflective evaluation of the individual and group interventions of a Muslim start-up NGO, Community Development, Education and Socia…
Exploring social networks in foster caring
In their care of children and young people, foster carers report experiencing social isolation and a lack of support. This study examines the social network experiences of Australian foster carers who are members of Mockingbird Family. While well established in the United States and United Kingdom, Mockingbird Family was introduced to Australia offering a new approach to address the unique challenges of foster caring for vulnerable children and y…
Australian Trends in Academic Literature Concerned With Family and Domestic Violence Perpetrators
In this article, we used a novel hybrid approach to review literature concerned with family and domestic violence (FADV) perpetrators. Our intention was to chart the research and publication activity of authors with Australian affiliation to identify homegrown evidence related to stopping the perpetration of violence. This involved systematic searching of literature from the Scopus electronic database, utilization of VOSviewer to sort keyword co-…
Covid-19 and Women's Triple Burden
During disease outbreaks, women endure additional burdens associated with paid and unpaid work, often without consideration or the alleviation of other life responsibilities. This paper draws on the concept of the triple burden in theorizing the gender divisions in productive and reproductive work and community activities in the context of disaster. Events that include famine, war, natural disaster or disease outbreak are all well documented as i…
Domestic violence and child protection
Domestic violence continues to be one of the most significant aspects of child abuse and neglect in A ustralia. However, the children are not well served by either child protection or domestic violence service sectors, which continue to operate as segregated, tertiary response systems. This paper reports on research that examined bridges and barriers to effective collaboration between child protection and domestic violence services in responding …
Socio-Developmental Network Analysis
In recent years, social network analysis has had its own distinctive theoretical and methodological underpinnings. This article proposes a novel method for the application of a fused mixed-methods approach and social network analyses that incorporates the critical aspects of numerous characteristics of children's social development in a statutory care setting. We collected data from children involved in the Mockingbird Family out-of-home care mod…
Exploring social networks in foster caring
In their care of children and young people, foster carers report experiencing social isolation and a lack of support. This study examines the social network experiences of Australian foster carers who are members of Mockingbird Family. While well established in the United States and United Kingdom, Mockingbird Family was introduced to Australia offering a new approach to address the unique challenges of foster caring for vulnerable children and y…
First Contact Social Work
Domestic and family violence (DFV) is a pervasive social problem that social workers often encounter in practice. Responses to DFV require specialist and non-specialist services. Research suggests that first contact social workers can experience a lack of confidence, both in engaging with men who use violence and working with women and children who disclose experiencing violence. This article reports on the findings of an Australian survey (N = 1…
Manipulative silences and the politics of representation of boat children in Australian print media
There is substantial literature on media representations of asylum seeker policy in Australia from a number of theoretical standpoints, namely moral panic theory, whiteness studies and belonging and citizenship. While many of these studies use discourse analysis of textual media as a methodology, there is scant attention to the contribution of manipulative silences in media texts on asylum seeker children. Using a form of discourse analysis to ex…
(Un)‐blaming mothers whose partners sexually abuse children
Mothers of children who have been sexually abused are often shamed, blamed and held guilty for their male partners' sexual perpetrations. These feelings are constrained by the dominant heteronormative discourses, institutions and systems that devalue women, that silence them and which subsequently blame women for the abuse as well as their silence. Paradoxically, the risks for mothers speaking out are reinforced by social criticism and profession…
Multicultural Quality of Life
Muslims have a strong sense of obligation in which Islam informs their ways of life. As a religious minority within Australia, these obligatory practices may not be well understood by mainstream policy, health, and welfare services. This mixed-method, cross-sectional study assessed the self-reported quality of life (QoL), worldviews, and subjective experiences of religiosity and/or cultural identity of adults from a Muslim community affiliated wi…
Female Student Migration
Vietnamese Confucian religio-philosophical ideals regulate social order in the family, community, and nation state. As a result, women's duties to their husbands, fathers, ancestors, and Vietnam powerfully permeate all aspects of gendered life. This study of 20 Vietnamese women explored their experiences as international students in Australia. Primary focus was on how their gendered Confucian histories compelled their migratory journeys, influenc…
Indonesia's Orphanage Trade
In 2011, Indonesia commenced an orphanage deinstitutionalization strategy known as the paradigm change in child protection. The strategy responded to human rights protocols emphasizing institutional care of children as a last resort. Orphanage based social workers were trained by the Ministry of Social Affairs (MOSA) to implement the paradigm change, increase parenting capacity and strengthen local supports to enable children's reunification with…
Professional quality of life of Australian Mockingbird FamilyTM foster carers
Children’s behaviours and support system typology are potential predictors of foster carer compassion satisfaction, burnout, and secondary traumatic stress (i.e., Professional Quality of Life, ProQOL). Little is known about the ProQOL of Mockingbird FamilyTM foster carers compared to foster carers caregiving as usual. This study aimed to: Examine ProQOL of Mockingbird FamilyTM carers compared to other carers; Explain associations between ProQOL, …
Piloting the Mockingbird FamilyTM in Australia
Given that the number of children and young people needing care keeps rising and fewer people are becoming foster carers, efforts to support carers and workers in foster caring are essential. This paper considers the experiences of carers and foster care agency workers involved in Australia's piloting of the Mockingbird Family. With a view understanding experience, data were collected via focus groups with carers and agency workers ( n = 20) invo…
A Yarn Among Social Workers
Many social workers engage in Yarning and truth-telling. This worldview is important considering that Australian social work literature is historically informed by white western thought. This white lens has obstructed the self-determination of Aboriginal social workers and their communities. We came together as Aboriginal social workers and non-Aboriginal allies. Our authorship engaged dialogue and Dadirri (deep listening) with one another in rec…
Indonesian Women’s Civil Service Leadership
Women in Indonesia’s civil service ( n = 320) were surveyed about their career advancement. Analysis of variance identified differences in career progression, and post-hoc comparisons were tested using Fisher’s Least Significant Difference method. We found that family support and interpersonal relationships, paired with superior education to men, were critical to women’s successful leadership progression, especially through the echelon ranks. Qua…
Incentive-based Social Welfare Administration in Indonesia
This article brings together two discrete studies of Indonesian welfare innovations, the conditional cash transfer and the deinstitutionalisation of children, both delivered at the lowest administrative level by social workers. Patterns across the two studies indicated a confounding variable influential in social workers’ innovation implementation and administrative decisions. This variable, incentive-based remuneration, was inhibiting implementa…
Early Intervention Program for High-Risk Youth
Keeping Siblings in Care Connected
Children and young people in Australian foster or kinship care are separated from their siblings for a range of reasons. These may include issues that are behavioural, sibling-related, the capacity of carers to host multiple children, or policies that enforce a one-child-per-bedroom rule. This study investigated strategies enhancing stability and meaningful connections among siblings within the Mockingbird Family, a social network model of foster…
Australian Media and Islamophobia
Australian media invests considerable attention in asylum seekers and their children, especially those arriving by boat. In this paper, we provide an analysis of Australian newsprint media published during the term of Australia's Gillard's government (2010-2013). This period is critical as it coincides with rising numbers of boat arrivals to Australian shores, fear towards Muslims, and growing Islamophobia. At the time, there were government prom…
Domestic violence, housing and employment
In response to contemporary understanding about the association between financial security and women's ability to escape domestic violence and homelessness, this paper reports on a small scale pilot study conducted with workers from generalist homelessness services and domestic violence‐supported accommodation services in South Australia on responding to women's requests for assistance to seek employment. Workers from both accommodation service t…
Exploring the Ethics of Forewarning
This article reports on exploratory research into social workers’ perceptions and actions regarding “forewarning” clients of their child abuse reporting obligations as a limitation of confidentiality at relationship onset. Ethical principles and previous research on forewarning are discussed prior to stating the research methods and presenting findings. Data obtained from South Australian social workers engaged in human service work with adult fa…
Exploring the Ethics of Forewarning
This article reports on exploratory research into social workers’ perceptions and actions regarding “forewarning” clients of their child abuse reporting obligations as a limitation of confidentiality at relationship onset. Ethical principles and previous research on forewarning are discussed prior to stating the research methods and presenting findings. Data obtained from South Australian social workers engaged in human service work with adult fa…
Domestic violence and child protection
Domestic violence continues to be one of the most significant aspects of child abuse and neglect in A ustralia. However, the children are not well served by either child protection or domestic violence service sectors, which continue to operate as segregated, tertiary response systems. This paper reports on research that examined bridges and barriers to effective collaboration between child protection and domestic violence services in responding …
(Un)‐blaming mothers whose partners sexually abuse children
Mothers of children who have been sexually abused are often shamed, blamed and held guilty for their male partners' sexual perpetrations. These feelings are constrained by the dominant heteronormative discourses, institutions and systems that devalue women, that silence them and which subsequently blame women for the abuse as well as their silence. Paradoxically, the risks for mothers speaking out are reinforced by social criticism and profession…
Domestic violence, housing and employment
In response to contemporary understanding about the association between financial security and women's ability to escape domestic violence and homelessness, this paper reports on a small scale pilot study conducted with workers from generalist homelessness services and domestic violence‐supported accommodation services in South Australia on responding to women's requests for assistance to seek employment. Workers from both accommodation service t…
Falling in love with romantic ideals
Drawing on data from a larger research study, this paper explores intersecting and competing social relations that influenced the romantic desires of women who became intimately involved with men who molested children. Through a feminist poststructuralist lens, women's narratives were analysed with the use of feminist interpretations of Foucauldian discourse theory. Analysis informed of a discursive power over participants that made the attainmen…
Manipulative silences and the politics of representation of boat children in Australian print media
There is substantial literature on media representations of asylum seeker policy in Australia from a number of theoretical standpoints, namely moral panic theory, whiteness studies and belonging and citizenship. While many of these studies use discourse analysis of textual media as a methodology, there is scant attention to the contribution of manipulative silences in media texts on asylum seeker children. Using a form of discourse analysis to ex…
Adult women groomed by child molesters' heteronormative dating scripts
Decentralization, Participatory Planning, and the Anthropocene in Indonesia, with a Case Example of the Berugak Dese, Lombok, Indonesia
Indonesian Women in Public Service Leadership
Masculinist contours have legitimized male domination in Indonesia’s upper public service ranks. However, some women have managed to crack the glass ceiling. A systematic search was undertaken of seven academic databases and the Google Scholar search engine to identify facilitative features of women’s career advancement through Indonesia’s echelon ranks. Fourteen articles, representing nine studies, were identified. While policy initiatives exist…
Australian Media and Islamophobia
Australian media invests considerable attention in asylum seekers and their children, especially those arriving by boat. In this paper, we provide an analysis of Australian newsprint media published during the term of Australia's Gillard's government (2010-2013). This period is critical as it coincides with rising numbers of boat arrivals to Australian shores, fear towards Muslims, and growing Islamophobia. At the time, there were government prom…
Indonesia's Orphanage Trade
In 2011, Indonesia commenced an orphanage deinstitutionalization strategy known as the paradigm change in child protection. The strategy responded to human rights protocols emphasizing institutional care of children as a last resort. Orphanage based social workers were trained by the Ministry of Social Affairs (MOSA) to implement the paradigm change, increase parenting capacity and strengthen local supports to enable children's reunification with…
Incentive-based Social Welfare Administration in Indonesia
This article brings together two discrete studies of Indonesian welfare innovations, the conditional cash transfer and the deinstitutionalisation of children, both delivered at the lowest administrative level by social workers. Patterns across the two studies indicated a confounding variable influential in social workers’ innovation implementation and administrative decisions. This variable, incentive-based remuneration, was inhibiting implementa…
Covid-19 and Women's Triple Burden
During disease outbreaks, women endure additional burdens associated with paid and unpaid work, often without consideration or the alleviation of other life responsibilities. This paper draws on the concept of the triple burden in theorizing the gender divisions in productive and reproductive work and community activities in the context of disaster. Events that include famine, war, natural disaster or disease outbreak are all well documented as i…
Female Student Migration
Vietnamese Confucian religio-philosophical ideals regulate social order in the family, community, and nation state. As a result, women's duties to their husbands, fathers, ancestors, and Vietnam powerfully permeate all aspects of gendered life. This study of 20 Vietnamese women explored their experiences as international students in Australia. Primary focus was on how their gendered Confucian histories compelled their migratory journeys, influenc…
Respect for Religiosity
Integration of religion in community health and wellbeing interventions is important for achieving a good life among faith-based populations. In countries hosting Muslim-minorities, however, relatively little is reported in academic literature on processes of faith integration in the development and delivery of interventions. We undertook a review of peer reviewed literature on health and wellbeing interventions with Muslim-minorities, with speci…
First Contact Social Work
Domestic and family violence (DFV) is a pervasive social problem that social workers often encounter in practice. Responses to DFV require specialist and non-specialist services. Research suggests that first contact social workers can experience a lack of confidence, both in engaging with men who use violence and working with women and children who disclose experiencing violence. This article reports on the findings of an Australian survey (N = 1…
Multicultural quality of life predictive effects on wellbeing
Muslim women (n = 39) and men (n = 59) in Adelaide, South Australia were surveyed using the ONS-UK Personal Wellbeing questions (PWB) and Multicultural Quality of Life Index (MQLI). Pearson product-moment correlational analysis, multiple regression analyses, and Hayes’s PROCESS modeling showed spiritual fulfillment-MQLI as the strongest predictor of life satisfaction-PWB, and of PWB overall. Physical wellbeing-MQLI was the greatest predictor of w…
Australian Trends in Academic Literature Concerned With Family and Domestic Violence Perpetrators
In this article, we used a novel hybrid approach to review literature concerned with family and domestic violence (FADV) perpetrators. Our intention was to chart the research and publication activity of authors with Australian affiliation to identify homegrown evidence related to stopping the perpetration of violence. This involved systematic searching of literature from the Scopus electronic database, utilization of VOSviewer to sort keyword co-…
Multicultural Quality of Life
Muslims have a strong sense of obligation in which Islam informs their ways of life. As a religious minority within Australia, these obligatory practices may not be well understood by mainstream policy, health, and welfare services. This mixed-method, cross-sectional study assessed the self-reported quality of life (QoL), worldviews, and subjective experiences of religiosity and/or cultural identity of adults from a Muslim community affiliated wi…
Piloting the Mockingbird FamilyTM in Australia
Given that the number of children and young people needing care keeps rising and fewer people are becoming foster carers, efforts to support carers and workers in foster caring are essential. This paper considers the experiences of carers and foster care agency workers involved in Australia's piloting of the Mockingbird Family. With a view understanding experience, data were collected via focus groups with carers and agency workers ( n = 20) invo…
A Yarn Among Social Workers
Many social workers engage in Yarning and truth-telling. This worldview is important considering that Australian social work literature is historically informed by white western thought. This white lens has obstructed the self-determination of Aboriginal social workers and their communities. We came together as Aboriginal social workers and non-Aboriginal allies. Our authorship engaged dialogue and Dadirri (deep listening) with one another in rec…
Indonesian Women’s Civil Service Leadership
Women in Indonesia’s civil service ( n = 320) were surveyed about their career advancement. Analysis of variance identified differences in career progression, and post-hoc comparisons were tested using Fisher’s Least Significant Difference method. We found that family support and interpersonal relationships, paired with superior education to men, were critical to women’s successful leadership progression, especially through the echelon ranks. Qua…
Domestic Violence Survivors Who Became Anti-domestic Violence Volunteers
This research examined the life experiences of domestic violence survivors in China, specifically the actions taken, experiences and meanings they ascribed in becoming anti-domestic violence volunteers. Data were collected via in-depth interviews in 2020 with ten such volunteers. Theories of posttraumatic growth and theories of volunteering provided an analytical framework. The findings showed that the volunteers’ experiences during and following…
Socio-Developmental Network Analysis
In recent years, social network analysis has had its own distinctive theoretical and methodological underpinnings. This article proposes a novel method for the application of a fused mixed-methods approach and social network analyses that incorporates the critical aspects of numerous characteristics of children's social development in a statutory care setting. We collected data from children involved in the Mockingbird Family out-of-home care mod…
A Scoping Review of Changes to Patient-Doctor Communication During Covid-19
theme included insights into doctors' workload, isolation, and anxiety and how changes requiring increases in virtual consults iteratively altered confidence in care provision and communication with patients. Results of the scoping review provide important insights for strengthening virtual patient-doctor interactions, including target areas for training and professional development during and beyond the current pandemic
Psychology (32 obras) · Political science (23 obras) · Medicine (21 obras) · Sociology (19 obras) · Social Psychology (18 obras) · Law (12 obras) · Child Abuse and Trauma (11 obras) · Nursing (11 obras) · Social Psychology (11 obras) · Child Welfare and Adoption (10 obras)