David Hodgson
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3701494 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | David Hodgson |
| NOMBRES | David |
| APELLIDO | Hodgson |
| FIRMA | HODGSON D |
| AFILIACIONES | Curtin University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0100-6274 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 33 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1994 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Family and Domestic Violence Discretion and Decision-Making Through the Perspectives of Social Workers and Victim-Survivors
Social workers (SWs) employed in family and domestic violence (FDV) roles use their discretion and make decisions that impact victim-survivor (VS) outcomes and well-being. However, when working alongside VSs, discretion and decision-making remain unexplored in existing literature. This study examined social work discretion and decision-making in FDV contexts and its impacts on VSs. Interpretative phenomenological analysis underpinned eight semist…
Teaching and learning social work theory
This paper is concerned with the teaching of social work theory. It draws on qualitative interviews with educators to articulate a whole-of-curriculum approach to theory education in social work. Social work theory represents a broad body of knowledge that collectively constitutes social work as a discipline and a profession. However, the breadth of theoretical perspectives in social work and the lack of agreement on what theory is relevant and a…
Exploring the Challenges of Empathy in a Therapeutic Context
Professionals working in therapeutic contexts are vulnerable to developing occupation-related stress conditions such as burnout, vicarious trauma, and compassion fatigue. In such contexts, empathy is accepted as a crucial component of practice. However, social neuroscience research suggests empathy may adversely impact workers’ well-being. While occupation-related problems like compassion fatigue have relevance, they do not fully explain the pote…
Exploring the Practice of Social Justice in Social Work Healthcare
Empathy in Social Work
A phenomenological study into Zimbabwean-Australian clergy’s understandings of the causes and their responses to mental health problems among Zimbabwean-Australians
This thesis investigates how Zimbabwean-Australian clergy address mental health needs within their community. Using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA), interviews with 16 clergy members revealed that mental health issues are attributed to both spiritual and psychological factors. Clergy often act as first responders but lack formal training, highlighting the need for collaboration with mental health professionals and tailored training…
How Do Employees in the Disability and Family and Domestic Violence Sectors Respond to Disclosures of Violence From Women With Disability
Women with disability experience higher rates of family and domestic violence (FDV) compared to the rest of the population. There is limited research into how workers in FDV and disability organizations respond to violence against women with disability. Using a case study vignette of a woman with disability disclosing FDV, this phenomenological study explored how 10 employees across the disability and FDV sectors respond to disclosures of abuse, …
Telehealth in Mental Health Social Work
Telehealth is increasingly being adopted in mental health service delivery, particularly since the onset of COVID-19. However, the literature on the uses and applications of telehealth in mental health social work is still emerging, and a critical understanding of telehealth practice is vitally needed. This research explored how the use of telehealth impacts the practice of mental health social workers and what this means for service users. Ten s…
Learning About Mental Health Lived Experience in Social Work Education
The Benefits of Loving Kindness Meditation for Helping Professionals
Helping professionals are at risk of experiencing adverse health and psychological problems when working in roles where they are continually exposed to the emotional distress of others. The term compassion fatigue was coined to describe symptoms of emotional and physical fatigue experienced by workers in these environments. However, empirical research contends that compassion does not cause fatigue, rather compassion is said to foster well-being …
Artificial Intelligence and Implications for the Australian Social Work Journal
Australian Mental Health Social Workers’ Experiences of Burnout
Mental health practice is recognised as emotionally demanding and complex. Social workers and others working in this field of practice may be susceptible to stress and burnout. This study explored Australian social workers' stories of burnout when working in the mental health sector. In the qualitative study described here, the method used was in-depth interviews to narratively understand and organise the experiences of 10 Australian mental healt…
Historiography of empathy
Empathy has long been considered critical to good social work practice, and is supported by extensive research and literature. However, empathy is a contested concept with divergent theoretical origins that complicates its place in social work research and practice. This article provides a historical review of empathy, highlighting the evolution of the concept of empathy, its contested history, and subsequent emergence into therapeutic contexts, …
The impact of Covid-19 vaccination in prisons in England and Wales
The impact of vaccination in prison settings was highly dependent on early and rapid vaccine delivery. If administered to both those living and working in prison prior to an outbreak occurring, vaccines could substantially reduce COVID-19-related morbidity and mortality in prison settings
Developing and using matrix methods for analysis of large longitudinal qualitative datasets in out-of-home-care research
Managing and analysing large qualitative datasets pose a particular challenge for researchers seeking a consistent and rigorous approach to qualitative data analysis. This paper describes and demonstrates the development and adoption of a matrix tool to guide the qualitative data analysis of a large sample (N = 122) of interview data. The paper articulates the theoretical and conceptual underpinnings of the matrix analysis tool and how it was dev…
A Program for Valuing Mental Health Lived Experience in Social Work Education
Participation and involvement of service users, carers, and families into the design, delivery, evaluation, and development of mental health policy and services is now a standard expectation. As social workers are employed in mental health settings, it is vital that graduates understand and ethically engage with mental health consumers, survivors, ex-patients, and family (CSX + F) in a meaningful and authentic manner. We argue this extends to fos…
Problematising Artificial Intelligence in Social Work Education
Artificial intelligence (AI) is the fourth industrial revolution, and in higher education it will fundamentally transform the work of academics and higher education administrators. AI will also have several implications for students, including a reconsideration of what sorts of skills and knowledge should be taught and developed in the academy to prepare students for digital working lives. As social work educators, we have begun to wonder what th…
Stonelands Cave, Littondale, North Yorkshire
A worked bone artefact from Stonelands Cave has been radiocarbon dated to the Roman period. This is the first published record of any archaeological material from the site and increases the number of cave sites in the southern Yorkshire Dales known to have been utilised during such times
Rethinking Ethics in the Shadow of Displacement and Statelessness
Statelessness and displacement represent nothing short of a loss of place, the violation of rights and international norms, threat to safety and belonging, and severely limits access to law and citizenship. Social work must leverage and sustain an ethical standpoint as a critical counterpoint to the increasing moral and political urgency of statelessness. However, traditional and normative social work ethics operate at a level of abstraction that…
Research protocol of a multifaceted prospective mixed-method longitudinal study
Navigating Through Life exemplifies a novel utilisation of multiple data sources to research outcomes for vulnerable and difficult to reach populations, and offers insights for other complex mixed-methods longitudinal studies. Results will provide new and more comprehensive data about specific pathways that may be influential to a range of post-care outcomes. Findings will extend evidence to inform better service-delivery models that improve outc…
Social Work Doctoral Education in Australia
Social work education in Australia has been based in universities since the 1940s. There are now 32 higher education providers offering social work programs across Australia. The significant growth in master’s level qualifying programs in Australia, along with recent higher education policy changes, has increased the need for social work academic faculty members with doctoral qualifications. This paper presents the findings of a scoping review of…
Conceptualising the compulsory education policy apparatus
A governmental research inquiry was conducted into the policy to raise the school leaving age in Western Australia. The study aimed to problematise the policy so as to identify and examine the rationale and intervening practices with young people who were deemed to be at-risk of not meeting the new school leaving age requirements. Drawing on interviews and policy documents, this paper elaborates the concept of ‘apparatus’ as defined by Foucault a…
The Experiences of Human Service Managers in Contexts of Change and Uncertainty
Against a background of rapid and widespread changes to the delivery of human services and social welfare, this paper reports on a study into the experiences of managers of human services organisations. Within an interpretive methodology, the research utilised focus group and interview methods to examine the relevance and need for business, finance, and management skills from the perspective of managers in the human services. Results indicate tha…
Disciplining the conduct of young people in compulsory education policy and practice
Disciplining and pastoral power are central to the strategies and practices of intervening in the lives of young people deemed at risk of disengaging from school, or not completing their compulsory education. As an expression of power concerned with young people's welfare and self-improvement, disciplining and pastoral practices push young people towards greater responsibilism and employability. From 2004 to 2008, the State Government of Western …
Critical Supervision for the Human Services
Supervision is an important aspect of practice and learning, and this book is relevant to social work students, field educators, and practicing social workers who are regularly engaged in supervisi
Policy rationalities and policy technologies
In this paper I outline an approach towards policy analysis that takes governmentality as its point of theoretical orientation and begin to apply this approach to my research into the recently raised compulsory school‐leaving age in Western Australia. I aim to demonstrate the methodological potentials of this approach by giving examples of the thinking and practices that shape and condition the policy. I commence by situating the school‐leaving a…
Disciplining the conduct of young people in compulsory education policy and practice
Disciplining and pastoral power are central to the strategies and practices of intervening in the lives of young people deemed at risk of disengaging from school, or not completing their compulsory education. As an expression of power concerned with young people's welfare and self-improvement, disciplining and pastoral practices push young people towards greater responsibilism and employability. From 2004 to 2008, the State Government of Western …
Australian Mental Health Social Workers’ Experiences of Burnout
Mental health practice is recognised as emotionally demanding and complex. Social workers and others working in this field of practice may be susceptible to stress and burnout. This study explored Australian social workers' stories of burnout when working in the mental health sector. In the qualitative study described here, the method used was in-depth interviews to narratively understand and organise the experiences of 10 Australian mental healt…
Artificial Intelligence and Implications for the Australian Social Work Journal
A Program for Valuing Mental Health Lived Experience in Social Work Education
Participation and involvement of service users, carers, and families into the design, delivery, evaluation, and development of mental health policy and services is now a standard expectation. As social workers are employed in mental health settings, it is vital that graduates understand and ethically engage with mental health consumers, survivors, ex-patients, and family (CSX + F) in a meaningful and authentic manner. We argue this extends to fos…
Problematising Artificial Intelligence in Social Work Education
Artificial intelligence (AI) is the fourth industrial revolution, and in higher education it will fundamentally transform the work of academics and higher education administrators. AI will also have several implications for students, including a reconsideration of what sorts of skills and knowledge should be taught and developed in the academy to prepare students for digital working lives. As social work educators, we have begun to wonder what th…
Social Work Doctoral Education in Australia
Social work education in Australia has been based in universities since the 1940s. There are now 32 higher education providers offering social work programs across Australia. The significant growth in master’s level qualifying programs in Australia, along with recent higher education policy changes, has increased the need for social work academic faculty members with doctoral qualifications. This paper presents the findings of a scoping review of…
The Experiences of Human Service Managers in Contexts of Change and Uncertainty
Against a background of rapid and widespread changes to the delivery of human services and social welfare, this paper reports on a study into the experiences of managers of human services organisations. Within an interpretive methodology, the research utilised focus group and interview methods to examine the relevance and need for business, finance, and management skills from the perspective of managers in the human services. Results indicate tha…
Telehealth in Mental Health Social Work
Telehealth is increasingly being adopted in mental health service delivery, particularly since the onset of COVID-19. However, the literature on the uses and applications of telehealth in mental health social work is still emerging, and a critical understanding of telehealth practice is vitally needed. This research explored how the use of telehealth impacts the practice of mental health social workers and what this means for service users. Ten s…
Learning About Mental Health Lived Experience in Social Work Education
Developing and using matrix methods for analysis of large longitudinal qualitative datasets in out-of-home-care research
Managing and analysing large qualitative datasets pose a particular challenge for researchers seeking a consistent and rigorous approach to qualitative data analysis. This paper describes and demonstrates the development and adoption of a matrix tool to guide the qualitative data analysis of a large sample (N = 122) of interview data. The paper articulates the theoretical and conceptual underpinnings of the matrix analysis tool and how it was dev…
Conceptualising the compulsory education policy apparatus
A governmental research inquiry was conducted into the policy to raise the school leaving age in Western Australia. The study aimed to problematise the policy so as to identify and examine the rationale and intervening practices with young people who were deemed to be at-risk of not meeting the new school leaving age requirements. Drawing on interviews and policy documents, this paper elaborates the concept of ‘apparatus’ as defined by Foucault a…
Assessing the Needs of Carers of People with Mental Illness
This paper is concerned with improving assessment practices with people who are carers of people with mental illness. It is established that the well-being of carers is negatively impacted by the burden of their caring role, and that the needs of carers are often overlooked and poorly responded to by formal helping services. It is the purpose here to report on findings from the data provided by a subset of participants from a broader collaborativ…
Euthanasia in Aged Horses
The human–horse bond is powerful and unique and strengthened with years of ownership. Yet, in aged horses, the decision for euthanasia will be faced at some time by most horse owners. We hypothesized that euthanasia is a difficult and distressing decision for most horse owners, and that the decision will be influenced by the owners' personality, difficulty of euthanasia decision, and experiences of euthanasia, as well as external factors. Horse o…
The Mind Matters
Introduction Part I. Preliminaries: General approach and assumptions Mental events The consensus Part II. Against Mechanism: More and different information Plausible reasoning Consciousness selected by evolution Folk psychology Transcending the code Part III. Quantum Mechanics: Historical outline Some mechanics and mathematics The quantum mechanical state The development of the quantum state Combined systems The measurement problem Quantum theory…
Using Technology in Human Services Education
Policy rationalities and policy technologies
In this paper I outline an approach towards policy analysis that takes governmentality as its point of theoretical orientation and begin to apply this approach to my research into the recently raised compulsory school‐leaving age in Western Australia. I aim to demonstrate the methodological potentials of this approach by giving examples of the thinking and practices that shape and condition the policy. I commence by situating the school‐leaving a…
Quantum Physics, Consciousness, and Free Will
This article begins with an account of how quantum physics represents physical systems and how it differs from classical physics, focusing on three features of quantum theory that have been thought to be relevant to free will: indeterminism, nonlocality, and observer-participation. It examines various interpretations of quantum theory, including deterministic interpretations, such as the “many-worlds” interpretation and hidden variable interpreta…
Euthanasia in Aged Horses
The human–horse bond is powerful and unique and strengthened with years of ownership. Yet, in aged horses, the decision for euthanasia will be faced at some time by most horse owners. We hypothesized that euthanasia is a difficult and distressing decision for most horse owners, and that the decision will be influenced by the owners' personality, difficulty of euthanasia decision, and experiences of euthanasia, as well as external factors. Horse o…
Assessing the Needs of Carers of People with Mental Illness
This paper is concerned with improving assessment practices with people who are carers of people with mental illness. It is established that the well-being of carers is negatively impacted by the burden of their caring role, and that the needs of carers are often overlooked and poorly responded to by formal helping services. It is the purpose here to report on findings from the data provided by a subset of participants from a broader collaborativ…
What do you want to do your life? Ethics and compulsory education
From 2004 to 2008, the Western Australian State Government embarked on a period of policy and legislative change to increase the compulsory school-leaving age from 15 to 17. This article adopts a governmental conceptualisation of ‘ethics’ to explore the policy discourses and practices. Drawing on interview and documental data, the research examined practices that were deployed with young people who were assessed as being at risk of early school l…
What Can Moral and Social Intuitionism Offer Ethics Education in Social Work? A Reflective Inquiry
There is broad agreement that attention to codes of ethics, ethical reasoning and social work values is an important component of any social work education. There appears to be less consensus about ethics content and how best to teach ethics and ethical practice. Situated within a reflexive methodology—and utilising a pair-interview technique—this paper presents the results of an inquiry designed to explore our practice as social work educators i…
The Experiences of Human Service Managers in Contexts of Change and Uncertainty
Against a background of rapid and widespread changes to the delivery of human services and social welfare, this paper reports on a study into the experiences of managers of human services organisations. Within an interpretive methodology, the research utilised focus group and interview methods to examine the relevance and need for business, finance, and management skills from the perspective of managers in the human services. Results indicate tha…
Disciplining the conduct of young people in compulsory education policy and practice
Disciplining and pastoral power are central to the strategies and practices of intervening in the lives of young people deemed at risk of disengaging from school, or not completing their compulsory education. As an expression of power concerned with young people's welfare and self-improvement, disciplining and pastoral practices push young people towards greater responsibilism and employability. From 2004 to 2008, the State Government of Western …
Conceptualising the compulsory education policy apparatus
A governmental research inquiry was conducted into the policy to raise the school leaving age in Western Australia. The study aimed to problematise the policy so as to identify and examine the rationale and intervening practices with young people who were deemed to be at-risk of not meeting the new school leaving age requirements. Drawing on interviews and policy documents, this paper elaborates the concept of ‘apparatus’ as defined by Foucault a…
Research protocol of a multifaceted prospective mixed-method longitudinal study
Navigating Through Life exemplifies a novel utilisation of multiple data sources to research outcomes for vulnerable and difficult to reach populations, and offers insights for other complex mixed-methods longitudinal studies. Results will provide new and more comprehensive data about specific pathways that may be influential to a range of post-care outcomes. Findings will extend evidence to inform better service-delivery models that improve outc…
Social Work Doctoral Education in Australia
Social work education in Australia has been based in universities since the 1940s. There are now 32 higher education providers offering social work programs across Australia. The significant growth in master’s level qualifying programs in Australia, along with recent higher education policy changes, has increased the need for social work academic faculty members with doctoral qualifications. This paper presents the findings of a scoping review of…
Stonelands Cave, Littondale, North Yorkshire
A worked bone artefact from Stonelands Cave has been radiocarbon dated to the Roman period. This is the first published record of any archaeological material from the site and increases the number of cave sites in the southern Yorkshire Dales known to have been utilised during such times
Rethinking Ethics in the Shadow of Displacement and Statelessness
Statelessness and displacement represent nothing short of a loss of place, the violation of rights and international norms, threat to safety and belonging, and severely limits access to law and citizenship. Social work must leverage and sustain an ethical standpoint as a critical counterpoint to the increasing moral and political urgency of statelessness. However, traditional and normative social work ethics operate at a level of abstraction that…
Historiography of empathy
Empathy has long been considered critical to good social work practice, and is supported by extensive research and literature. However, empathy is a contested concept with divergent theoretical origins that complicates its place in social work research and practice. This article provides a historical review of empathy, highlighting the evolution of the concept of empathy, its contested history, and subsequent emergence into therapeutic contexts, …
The impact of Covid-19 vaccination in prisons in England and Wales
The impact of vaccination in prison settings was highly dependent on early and rapid vaccine delivery. If administered to both those living and working in prison prior to an outbreak occurring, vaccines could substantially reduce COVID-19-related morbidity and mortality in prison settings
Developing and using matrix methods for analysis of large longitudinal qualitative datasets in out-of-home-care research
Managing and analysing large qualitative datasets pose a particular challenge for researchers seeking a consistent and rigorous approach to qualitative data analysis. This paper describes and demonstrates the development and adoption of a matrix tool to guide the qualitative data analysis of a large sample (N = 122) of interview data. The paper articulates the theoretical and conceptual underpinnings of the matrix analysis tool and how it was dev…
A Program for Valuing Mental Health Lived Experience in Social Work Education
Participation and involvement of service users, carers, and families into the design, delivery, evaluation, and development of mental health policy and services is now a standard expectation. As social workers are employed in mental health settings, it is vital that graduates understand and ethically engage with mental health consumers, survivors, ex-patients, and family (CSX + F) in a meaningful and authentic manner. We argue this extends to fos…
Problematising Artificial Intelligence in Social Work Education
Artificial intelligence (AI) is the fourth industrial revolution, and in higher education it will fundamentally transform the work of academics and higher education administrators. AI will also have several implications for students, including a reconsideration of what sorts of skills and knowledge should be taught and developed in the academy to prepare students for digital working lives. As social work educators, we have begun to wonder what th…
The Benefits of Loving Kindness Meditation for Helping Professionals
Helping professionals are at risk of experiencing adverse health and psychological problems when working in roles where they are continually exposed to the emotional distress of others. The term compassion fatigue was coined to describe symptoms of emotional and physical fatigue experienced by workers in these environments. However, empirical research contends that compassion does not cause fatigue, rather compassion is said to foster well-being …
Artificial Intelligence and Implications for the Australian Social Work Journal
Australian Mental Health Social Workers’ Experiences of Burnout
Mental health practice is recognised as emotionally demanding and complex. Social workers and others working in this field of practice may be susceptible to stress and burnout. This study explored Australian social workers' stories of burnout when working in the mental health sector. In the qualitative study described here, the method used was in-depth interviews to narratively understand and organise the experiences of 10 Australian mental healt…
A phenomenological study into Zimbabwean-Australian clergy’s understandings of the causes and their responses to mental health problems among Zimbabwean-Australians
This thesis investigates how Zimbabwean-Australian clergy address mental health needs within their community. Using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA), interviews with 16 clergy members revealed that mental health issues are attributed to both spiritual and psychological factors. Clergy often act as first responders but lack formal training, highlighting the need for collaboration with mental health professionals and tailored training…
Critical Supervision for the Human Services
Supervision is an important aspect of practice and learning, and this book is relevant to social work students, field educators, and practicing social workers who are regularly engaged in supervisi
Sociology (20 obras) · Psychology (17 obras) · Political science (16 obras) · Social Work Education and Practice (15 obras) · Social Work (13 obras) · Pedagogy (9 obras) · Medicine (8 obras) · Law (7 obras) · Law (7 obras) · Mental health (6 obras)