Jennifer Lehmann
Biographic Data
| ID | 4227133 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennifer Lehmann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennifer |
| FAMILY NAME | Lehmann |
| SIGNATURE | LEHMANN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | La Trobe University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2522-0603 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Developing Social Work Professional Identity Resilience
The human service context is a complex space for social workers and service users, bringing both challenges and opportunities. The ability to navigate challenges is essential for social workers to appropriately support clients and maintain longevity in human service work. Practitioners are expected to possess resilience to mitigate these challenges. Social workers are familiar with the concept of resilience in relation to work with clients. Howev…
Title
Parenthood is a significant life transition with considerable impacts on parent, child and family wellbeing. While life-enhancing, it is also stressful. New parents' often hold unrealistic expectations and do not prepare adequately for the new role. Applying a critical exploratory Grounded Theory approach, this study explores the reasons for expectant parents' unrealistic expectations. Thirty parents were interviewed about their preconceptions of…
Parents’ Emotional Responses to Early Parenthood
Early parenthood is a significant developmental stage that involves abrupt and dramatic changes to a new parent’s life. It is thought to be both a stressful and rewarding period, requiring significant adjustment to pre-parenthood lifestyles and routines. This study explores the emotional journey that new parents experience during the early phases of parenthood, examining these with a critical lens and giving consideration to the impacts of social…
Promoting Academic Success of Children in Care
Evidence from international studies shows that a significant number of adults who have been in state care are known to be living in adverse circumstances. Their unemployment rate is high as well as their rates of poverty, homelessness, drug and alcohol addiction, mental illness and criminal offending. A key factor contributing to these poor adult outcomes for children is lack of educational or vocational qualifications. There is evidence that a h…
The Education of Children in Out-of-home Care
In spite of a high investment in out-of-home care services across Australia, the educational attainment of children in care remains an issue of concern. This paper discusses findings from a study designed to identify the factors that promoted educational attainment of children in care based on 18 university-educated women with a care background. The narratives of these women from primary schooling through to graduating from a university were coll…
Exploring Social Workers' Experiences of Working with Bushfire-affected Families
Following the devastating Victorian bushfires in February 2009, social workers engaged with people affected by this event in a variety of roles, including bushfire case manager, counsellor, and community development worker. This paper explores the experiences of social workers who worked with bushfire-affected families to understand their role and the context in which they practised. It describes the personal impact of disaster recovery work. Sec…
Noticing change
Working with clients to notice change is a key issue in working in mental health services. In 2001, St Luke's Recovery Focused Mental Health Team initiated a project to develop strength-focused tools for measuring change for people using mental health recovery programs. A partnership was formed with La Trobe University Bendigo's Social Work Department. Consumers, carers and staff were involved in exploring what kinds of change it was helpful to n…
Human Services Management in Rural Contexts
Journal Article Human Services Management in Rural Contexts Get access Jennifer Lehmann Jennifer Lehmann Dr Jennifer Lehmann is a lecturer in social work in the Faculty for Health Sciences, La Trobe University, Bendigo Campus. Correspondence to Dr Jennifer Lehmann, Lecturer, School of Social Work and Social Policy, La Trobe University, PO Box 199, Bendigo, Victoria 3552, Australia. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this a…
The Education of Children in Out-of-home Care
In spite of a high investment in out-of-home care services across Australia, the educational attainment of children in care remains an issue of concern. This paper discusses findings from a study designed to identify the factors that promoted educational attainment of children in care based on 18 university-educated women with a care background. The narratives of these women from primary schooling through to graduating from a university were coll…
Developing Social Work Professional Identity Resilience
The human service context is a complex space for social workers and service users, bringing both challenges and opportunities. The ability to navigate challenges is essential for social workers to appropriately support clients and maintain longevity in human service work. Practitioners are expected to possess resilience to mitigate these challenges. Social workers are familiar with the concept of resilience in relation to work with clients. Howev…
Parents’ Emotional Responses to Early Parenthood
Early parenthood is a significant developmental stage that involves abrupt and dramatic changes to a new parent’s life. It is thought to be both a stressful and rewarding period, requiring significant adjustment to pre-parenthood lifestyles and routines. This study explores the emotional journey that new parents experience during the early phases of parenthood, examining these with a critical lens and giving consideration to the impacts of social…
Promoting Academic Success of Children in Care
Evidence from international studies shows that a significant number of adults who have been in state care are known to be living in adverse circumstances. Their unemployment rate is high as well as their rates of poverty, homelessness, drug and alcohol addiction, mental illness and criminal offending. A key factor contributing to these poor adult outcomes for children is lack of educational or vocational qualifications. There is evidence that a h…
Exploring Social Workers' Experiences of Working with Bushfire-affected Families
Following the devastating Victorian bushfires in February 2009, social workers engaged with people affected by this event in a variety of roles, including bushfire case manager, counsellor, and community development worker. This paper explores the experiences of social workers who worked with bushfire-affected families to understand their role and the context in which they practised. It describes the personal impact of disaster recovery work. Sec…
Title
Parenthood is a significant life transition with considerable impacts on parent, child and family wellbeing. While life-enhancing, it is also stressful. New parents' often hold unrealistic expectations and do not prepare adequately for the new role. Applying a critical exploratory Grounded Theory approach, this study explores the reasons for expectant parents' unrealistic expectations. Thirty parents were interviewed about their preconceptions of…
Noticing change
Working with clients to notice change is a key issue in working in mental health services. In 2001, St Luke's Recovery Focused Mental Health Team initiated a project to develop strength-focused tools for measuring change for people using mental health recovery programs. A partnership was formed with La Trobe University Bendigo's Social Work Department. Consumers, carers and staff were involved in exploring what kinds of change it was helpful to n…
Human Services Management in Rural Contexts
Journal Article Human Services Management in Rural Contexts Get access Jennifer Lehmann Jennifer Lehmann Dr Jennifer Lehmann is a lecturer in social work in the Faculty for Health Sciences, La Trobe University, Bendigo Campus. Correspondence to Dr Jennifer Lehmann, Lecturer, School of Social Work and Social Policy, La Trobe University, PO Box 199, Bendigo, Victoria 3552, Australia. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this a…
Noticing change
Working with clients to notice change is a key issue in working in mental health services. In 2001, St Luke's Recovery Focused Mental Health Team initiated a project to develop strength-focused tools for measuring change for people using mental health recovery programs. A partnership was formed with La Trobe University Bendigo's Social Work Department. Consumers, carers and staff were involved in exploring what kinds of change it was helpful to n…
Human Services Management in Rural Contexts
Journal Article Human Services Management in Rural Contexts Get access Jennifer Lehmann Jennifer Lehmann Dr Jennifer Lehmann is a lecturer in social work in the Faculty for Health Sciences, La Trobe University, Bendigo Campus. Correspondence to Dr Jennifer Lehmann, Lecturer, School of Social Work and Social Policy, La Trobe University, PO Box 199, Bendigo, Victoria 3552, Australia. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this a…
Exploring Social Workers' Experiences of Working with Bushfire-affected Families
Following the devastating Victorian bushfires in February 2009, social workers engaged with people affected by this event in a variety of roles, including bushfire case manager, counsellor, and community development worker. This paper explores the experiences of social workers who worked with bushfire-affected families to understand their role and the context in which they practised. It describes the personal impact of disaster recovery work. Sec…
The Education of Children in Out-of-home Care
In spite of a high investment in out-of-home care services across Australia, the educational attainment of children in care remains an issue of concern. This paper discusses findings from a study designed to identify the factors that promoted educational attainment of children in care based on 18 university-educated women with a care background. The narratives of these women from primary schooling through to graduating from a university were coll…
Promoting Academic Success of Children in Care
Evidence from international studies shows that a significant number of adults who have been in state care are known to be living in adverse circumstances. Their unemployment rate is high as well as their rates of poverty, homelessness, drug and alcohol addiction, mental illness and criminal offending. A key factor contributing to these poor adult outcomes for children is lack of educational or vocational qualifications. There is evidence that a h…
Parents’ Emotional Responses to Early Parenthood
Early parenthood is a significant developmental stage that involves abrupt and dramatic changes to a new parent’s life. It is thought to be both a stressful and rewarding period, requiring significant adjustment to pre-parenthood lifestyles and routines. This study explores the emotional journey that new parents experience during the early phases of parenthood, examining these with a critical lens and giving consideration to the impacts of social…
Developing Social Work Professional Identity Resilience
The human service context is a complex space for social workers and service users, bringing both challenges and opportunities. The ability to navigate challenges is essential for social workers to appropriately support clients and maintain longevity in human service work. Practitioners are expected to possess resilience to mitigate these challenges. Social workers are familiar with the concept of resilience in relation to work with clients. Howev…
Title
Parenthood is a significant life transition with considerable impacts on parent, child and family wellbeing. While life-enhancing, it is also stressful. New parents' often hold unrealistic expectations and do not prepare adequately for the new role. Applying a critical exploratory Grounded Theory approach, this study explores the reasons for expectant parents' unrealistic expectations. Thirty parents were interviewed about their preconceptions of…
Psychology (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Public relations (3 works) · Social Work (3 works) · Social Work Education and Practice (3 works) · Child Welfare and Adoption (2 works) · Context (archaeology (2 works) · Developmental psychology (2 works)