Bob Lonne
Biographic Data
| ID | 4414957 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bob Lonne |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bob |
| FAMILY NAME | Lonne |
| SIGNATURE | LONNE B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queensland University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2515-7237 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 105 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Advancing a prevention-oriented support system for the health and safety of children
Norwegian Child Welfare Managers’ perceptions of the impacts of Covid-19 infection control measures upon service functionality: A longitudinal study
Suiting up: Preparing workforces to take on the mantle of preventing child maltreatment from a public health perspective
Comparison of Systems and Outcomes for Safeguarding Children in Australia and Norway: A Decade of Rapid Change
Using aggregated national data, this paper re‐examines the outcomes of the Australian and Norwegian protective systems during the past decade and compares it to the trends and issues identified in our earlier 2012 study. We outline the context of increased service demand affecting both countries with rapid expansion and reform of their policies and approaches. A convergence has been occurring regarding their focus upon risk and its relationship w…
Informal kin caregivers raising children left behind in rural China: Experiences' feelings' and support
The well‐being of children in informal kinship care and their caregivers is a growing concern globally. This study explored the lived experiences of 23 kin caregivers raising children left behind in rural Northeast China while their migrant parents worked and lived in cities. The findings show that the expected authority and responsibility caregivers carry sometimes conflict with their social role of being children's grandparents. Caregivers' fee…
Public Health Models for Preventing Child Maltreatment: Applications From the Field of Injury Prevention
Contemporary approaches to child protection are dominated by individualized forensically focused interventions that provide limited scope for more holistic preventative responses to children at risk and the provision of support to struggling families and communities. However, in many jurisdictions, it is frequently shown, often through public inquiries and program reviews, that investigatory and removal approaches are failing in critically import…
The social exclusion of children left behind in China
This paper examines the social exclusion of rural Chinese children who are separated from their migrant parents, and outlines social care measures to address this issue. Based on a qualitative inquiry with 23 Chinese kin caregivers and five school personnel, we identify the psychosocial and relational impacts on children left behind in family, school and community contexts. The research sheds light on concerns for children’s social and emotional …
Empowering Children Left Behind in China
In the last two decades in rural China, increasing numbers of children of economic migrants have been left behind with kin, which is of growing concern for social work and welfare policy. The genesis of this rural to urban migration has been China's rapid economic development and greater opportunities for work in better paying jobs in cities. However, there is growing evidence of the negative impact upon these children. This paper reports the vie…
Carer perspectives of factors affecting placement trajectories of children in out-of-home care
Social Work and Complex Care Systems: The Case of People Hospitalised with a Disability
Health and hospital system reforms prioritise efficiency. However, initiatives can impact on people with new or existing disabilities who require time to maximise functional independence. With greater demands for shorter hospital stays social workers face increasing pressure to facilitate discharge. This paper reports findings from research identifying factors contributing to extended stays for adults with disabilities. We sought to better unders…
Informal kinship care in rural China: The influence of Confucianism and attachment
This article examines the role of informal kinship care in addressing the emotional needs and mental health, along with relationships, of school-age children left behind in rural China. Rural–urban migration in China has caused many rural children to be left behind in their local communities. Based on semi-structured interview data, this article explores Confucianism’s impact on Chinese kin caregivers’ understandings of children’s needs and their…
Enhancing the capacity of kin caregivers and their families to meet the needs of children left behind
Based on qualitative research of the experiences of 23 kin caregivers and five school personnel, this article explores the role of informal kinship care in addressing the needs of school-age children left behind in rural China. The findings of this study suggest that kin caregivers' child-rearing capacity is limited in the rural context, and they are often overwhelmed by children's diverse and complex needs, particularly their emotional ones. In …
Feature article coverage of Australian out-of-home care: Portrayals and policy reform
This article examines the issues that are typically identified in feature articles written about out-of-home care and how those issues are constructed and portrayed. It also considers the potential impact of the coverage upon the policy debates and outcomes that were occurring at the time
How Do Australian Print Media Representations of Child Abuse and Neglect Inform the Public and System Reform
Workforce Development: A Pathway to Reforming Child Protection Systems in Australia
The Australian child protection system is struggling to successfully address voluminous child protection notifications, increasing numbers of children in state care, decreasing foster-carers and chronic workforce issues. In this paper, we argue that the capacity of statutory child protection agencies to achieve their social policy objectives is severely hampered by their failure to acknowledge or challenge the competing ideologies that underpin c…
A comparison of systems and outcomes for safeguarding children in Australia and Norway
Using aggregated national data, this paper compares outcomes of Australian ‘child protection’ (CP) and Norwegian ‘child welfare services’ (CWS). We highlight each nation's context and key elements of their CP/CWS organizations, with emphasis on policy and programme orientation. System outcomes are examined along with the implications of their different approaches. The main policy focus in Australia is protection and risk, while Norway's systemic …
Rural Mental Health and Rural Social Work
A short speech on the rural mental health and rural social work in Australia is presented. It covers the empirically-derived Australian research findings, analysis of relevant community and practice issues, and guidance about how to best address these
Social Justice and High-Quality Human Services: Visioning the Place of a Contemporary Professional Association
The current world situation is plagued by “wicked problems” and a widespread sense of “things are going to get worse”. We confront the almost imponderable consequences of global habitat destruction
Using Resilience to Reconceptualise Child Protection Workforce Capacity
Current approaches to managing and supporting staff and addressing turnover in child protection predominantly rely on deficit-based models that focus on limitations, shortcomings, and psychopathology. This article explores an alternative approach, drawing on models of resilience, which is an emerging field linked to trauma and adversity. To date, the concept of resilience has seen limited application to staff and employment issues. In child prote…
Domains of Rural Social Work Practice
Even though there is substantial agreement about the nature of rural contexts, practice principles, and factors influencing practice we still do not have a framework for organising this knowledge in a way that can directly inform the practitioner in their day-to-day work. In this paper, we introduce the concepts ‘practice domains’, ‘domain location’, and ‘domain alignment’ that, taken together, provide such a framework. We suggest that each pract…
Great Lifestyle, Pity about the Job Stress’: Occupational Stress in Rural Human Service Practice
Social workers, welfare workers and others living and working in small rural communities report that they are generally highly satisfied with their work and lifestyle. Paradoxically, high levels of occupational stress are also reported. Rural welfare work has elements such as the adoption of dual and multiple roles, cultural ‘isolation’, the blurring of work and home, professional and citizenship roles, and lack of anonymity, which can contribute…
Critical review of Queensland's Crime and Misconduct Commission Inquiry into abuse of children in foster care: Social work's contribution to reform
This paper profiles Queensland's recent Crime and Misconduct Commission Inquiry into the abuse of children in foster care. The authors welcome the outcome as an opportunity to highlight the problems encountered by child protection jurisdictions in Australia and internationally, and they applaud some of the Inquiry's findings. However, the paper argues that the path to reform is hampered by insufficient accountability by government and management,…
Retaining Rural Social Workers: An Australian Study
Problematic staff turnover of social workers and other human service professionals has plagued rural communities, employers, employees and their families, and led to significant financial and human costs. This paper reports the findings of a two year longitudinal study of 194 Australian rural social workers and the high staff turnover they experienced during 1994-1997. Regression analyses of survey data revealed that employer-related factors were…
Rural social workers and their jobs: An empirical study
Results are reported from a national survey of 194 social workers commencing rural positions in Australia in 1994 and 1995. This paper focuses on: practitioner, position and community characteristics; which location the practitioners came from; their professional, rural practice and rural living experience; preparation for the positions by employers and educators; satisfaction with rural work and life; and anticipated length of stay. Results chal…
Child abuse in rural Australia: Explanations and implications
This paper considers some possible explanations for the higher incidence and seriousness of physical abuse, sexual abuse and neglect in Australian and overseas rural communities (Finkelhor, 1979; Finkelhor et al, 1988; Goldman & Goldman, 1988; Wilson & Collingridge, 1989; Lynn, 1990; Merryweather, 1990; Jones & McCurdy, 1992; Albert & Barth, 1996). Research findings question the popular belief that rural areas are safer environments for children …
Using Resilience to Reconceptualise Child Protection Workforce Capacity
Current approaches to managing and supporting staff and addressing turnover in child protection predominantly rely on deficit-based models that focus on limitations, shortcomings, and psychopathology. This article explores an alternative approach, drawing on models of resilience, which is an emerging field linked to trauma and adversity. To date, the concept of resilience has seen limited application to staff and employment issues. In child prote…
How Do Australian Print Media Representations of Child Abuse and Neglect Inform the Public and System Reform
A comparison of systems and outcomes for safeguarding children in Australia and Norway
Using aggregated national data, this paper compares outcomes of Australian ‘child protection’ (CP) and Norwegian ‘child welfare services’ (CWS). We highlight each nation's context and key elements of their CP/CWS organizations, with emphasis on policy and programme orientation. System outcomes are examined along with the implications of their different approaches. The main policy focus in Australia is protection and risk, while Norway's systemic …
Workforce Development: A Pathway to Reforming Child Protection Systems in Australia
The Australian child protection system is struggling to successfully address voluminous child protection notifications, increasing numbers of children in state care, decreasing foster-carers and chronic workforce issues. In this paper, we argue that the capacity of statutory child protection agencies to achieve their social policy objectives is severely hampered by their failure to acknowledge or challenge the competing ideologies that underpin c…
Critical review of Queensland's Crime and Misconduct Commission Inquiry into abuse of children in foster care: Social work's contribution to reform
This paper profiles Queensland's recent Crime and Misconduct Commission Inquiry into the abuse of children in foster care. The authors welcome the outcome as an opportunity to highlight the problems encountered by child protection jurisdictions in Australia and internationally, and they applaud some of the Inquiry's findings. However, the paper argues that the path to reform is hampered by insufficient accountability by government and management,…
Beginning Country Practice
This paper outlines a practice-based model which explains the processes of personal and emotional adjustment commonly experienced by social workers when they take up a job in a rural community. The process of adjustment typically takes twelve to eighteen months and has five phases, namely: disorientation, honeymoon, grief and loss, withdrawal and depression, reorganisation and adjustment. There is a large degree of commonality in the process for …
Rural social workers and their jobs: An empirical study
Results are reported from a national survey of 194 social workers commencing rural positions in Australia in 1994 and 1995. This paper focuses on: practitioner, position and community characteristics; which location the practitioners came from; their professional, rural practice and rural living experience; preparation for the positions by employers and educators; satisfaction with rural work and life; and anticipated length of stay. Results chal…
Enhancing the capacity of kin caregivers and their families to meet the needs of children left behind
Based on qualitative research of the experiences of 23 kin caregivers and five school personnel, this article explores the role of informal kinship care in addressing the needs of school-age children left behind in rural China. The findings of this study suggest that kin caregivers' child-rearing capacity is limited in the rural context, and they are often overwhelmed by children's diverse and complex needs, particularly their emotional ones. In …
Retaining Rural Social Workers: An Australian Study
Problematic staff turnover of social workers and other human service professionals has plagued rural communities, employers, employees and their families, and led to significant financial and human costs. This paper reports the findings of a two year longitudinal study of 194 Australian rural social workers and the high staff turnover they experienced during 1994-1997. Regression analyses of survey data revealed that employer-related factors were…
Social Work and Complex Care Systems: The Case of People Hospitalised with a Disability
Health and hospital system reforms prioritise efficiency. However, initiatives can impact on people with new or existing disabilities who require time to maximise functional independence. With greater demands for shorter hospital stays social workers face increasing pressure to facilitate discharge. This paper reports findings from research identifying factors contributing to extended stays for adults with disabilities. We sought to better unders…
Informal kinship care in rural China: The influence of Confucianism and attachment
This article examines the role of informal kinship care in addressing the emotional needs and mental health, along with relationships, of school-age children left behind in rural China. Rural–urban migration in China has caused many rural children to be left behind in their local communities. Based on semi-structured interview data, this article explores Confucianism’s impact on Chinese kin caregivers’ understandings of children’s needs and their…
The social exclusion of children left behind in China
This paper examines the social exclusion of rural Chinese children who are separated from their migrant parents, and outlines social care measures to address this issue. Based on a qualitative inquiry with 23 Chinese kin caregivers and five school personnel, we identify the psychosocial and relational impacts on children left behind in family, school and community contexts. The research sheds light on concerns for children’s social and emotional …
Social Justice and High-Quality Human Services: Visioning the Place of a Contemporary Professional Association
The current world situation is plagued by “wicked problems” and a widespread sense of “things are going to get worse”. We confront the almost imponderable consequences of global habitat destruction
Suiting up: Preparing workforces to take on the mantle of preventing child maltreatment from a public health perspective
Carer perspectives of factors affecting placement trajectories of children in out-of-home care
Domains of Rural Social Work Practice
Even though there is substantial agreement about the nature of rural contexts, practice principles, and factors influencing practice we still do not have a framework for organising this knowledge in a way that can directly inform the practitioner in their day-to-day work. In this paper, we introduce the concepts ‘practice domains’, ‘domain location’, and ‘domain alignment’ that, taken together, provide such a framework. We suggest that each pract…
Beginning Country Practice
This paper outlines a practice-based model which explains the processes of personal and emotional adjustment commonly experienced by social workers when they take up a job in a rural community. The process of adjustment typically takes twelve to eighteen months and has five phases, namely: disorientation, honeymoon, grief and loss, withdrawal and depression, reorganisation and adjustment. There is a large degree of commonality in the process for …
Child abuse in rural Australia: Explanations and implications
This paper considers some possible explanations for the higher incidence and seriousness of physical abuse, sexual abuse and neglect in Australian and overseas rural communities (Finkelhor, 1979; Finkelhor et al, 1988; Goldman & Goldman, 1988; Wilson & Collingridge, 1989; Lynn, 1990; Merryweather, 1990; Jones & McCurdy, 1992; Albert & Barth, 1996). Research findings question the popular belief that rural areas are safer environments for children …
Rural social workers and their jobs: An empirical study
Results are reported from a national survey of 194 social workers commencing rural positions in Australia in 1994 and 1995. This paper focuses on: practitioner, position and community characteristics; which location the practitioners came from; their professional, rural practice and rural living experience; preparation for the positions by employers and educators; satisfaction with rural work and life; and anticipated length of stay. Results chal…
Retaining Rural Social Workers: An Australian Study
Problematic staff turnover of social workers and other human service professionals has plagued rural communities, employers, employees and their families, and led to significant financial and human costs. This paper reports the findings of a two year longitudinal study of 194 Australian rural social workers and the high staff turnover they experienced during 1994-1997. Regression analyses of survey data revealed that employer-related factors were…
Domains of Rural Social Work Practice
Even though there is substantial agreement about the nature of rural contexts, practice principles, and factors influencing practice we still do not have a framework for organising this knowledge in a way that can directly inform the practitioner in their day-to-day work. In this paper, we introduce the concepts ‘practice domains’, ‘domain location’, and ‘domain alignment’ that, taken together, provide such a framework. We suggest that each pract…
Great Lifestyle, Pity about the Job Stress’: Occupational Stress in Rural Human Service Practice
Social workers, welfare workers and others living and working in small rural communities report that they are generally highly satisfied with their work and lifestyle. Paradoxically, high levels of occupational stress are also reported. Rural welfare work has elements such as the adoption of dual and multiple roles, cultural ‘isolation’, the blurring of work and home, professional and citizenship roles, and lack of anonymity, which can contribute…
Critical review of Queensland's Crime and Misconduct Commission Inquiry into abuse of children in foster care: Social work's contribution to reform
This paper profiles Queensland's recent Crime and Misconduct Commission Inquiry into the abuse of children in foster care. The authors welcome the outcome as an opportunity to highlight the problems encountered by child protection jurisdictions in Australia and internationally, and they applaud some of the Inquiry's findings. However, the paper argues that the path to reform is hampered by insufficient accountability by government and management,…
Rural Mental Health and Rural Social Work
A short speech on the rural mental health and rural social work in Australia is presented. It covers the empirically-derived Australian research findings, analysis of relevant community and practice issues, and guidance about how to best address these
Social Justice and High-Quality Human Services: Visioning the Place of a Contemporary Professional Association
The current world situation is plagued by “wicked problems” and a widespread sense of “things are going to get worse”. We confront the almost imponderable consequences of global habitat destruction
Using Resilience to Reconceptualise Child Protection Workforce Capacity
Current approaches to managing and supporting staff and addressing turnover in child protection predominantly rely on deficit-based models that focus on limitations, shortcomings, and psychopathology. This article explores an alternative approach, drawing on models of resilience, which is an emerging field linked to trauma and adversity. To date, the concept of resilience has seen limited application to staff and employment issues. In child prote…
A comparison of systems and outcomes for safeguarding children in Australia and Norway
Using aggregated national data, this paper compares outcomes of Australian ‘child protection’ (CP) and Norwegian ‘child welfare services’ (CWS). We highlight each nation's context and key elements of their CP/CWS organizations, with emphasis on policy and programme orientation. System outcomes are examined along with the implications of their different approaches. The main policy focus in Australia is protection and risk, while Norway's systemic …
Workforce Development: A Pathway to Reforming Child Protection Systems in Australia
The Australian child protection system is struggling to successfully address voluminous child protection notifications, increasing numbers of children in state care, decreasing foster-carers and chronic workforce issues. In this paper, we argue that the capacity of statutory child protection agencies to achieve their social policy objectives is severely hampered by their failure to acknowledge or challenge the competing ideologies that underpin c…
Informal kinship care in rural China: The influence of Confucianism and attachment
This article examines the role of informal kinship care in addressing the emotional needs and mental health, along with relationships, of school-age children left behind in rural China. Rural–urban migration in China has caused many rural children to be left behind in their local communities. Based on semi-structured interview data, this article explores Confucianism’s impact on Chinese kin caregivers’ understandings of children’s needs and their…
Enhancing the capacity of kin caregivers and their families to meet the needs of children left behind
Based on qualitative research of the experiences of 23 kin caregivers and five school personnel, this article explores the role of informal kinship care in addressing the needs of school-age children left behind in rural China. The findings of this study suggest that kin caregivers' child-rearing capacity is limited in the rural context, and they are often overwhelmed by children's diverse and complex needs, particularly their emotional ones. In …
Feature article coverage of Australian out-of-home care: Portrayals and policy reform
This article examines the issues that are typically identified in feature articles written about out-of-home care and how those issues are constructed and portrayed. It also considers the potential impact of the coverage upon the policy debates and outcomes that were occurring at the time
How Do Australian Print Media Representations of Child Abuse and Neglect Inform the Public and System Reform
Social Work and Complex Care Systems: The Case of People Hospitalised with a Disability
Health and hospital system reforms prioritise efficiency. However, initiatives can impact on people with new or existing disabilities who require time to maximise functional independence. With greater demands for shorter hospital stays social workers face increasing pressure to facilitate discharge. This paper reports findings from research identifying factors contributing to extended stays for adults with disabilities. We sought to better unders…
Public Health Models for Preventing Child Maltreatment: Applications From the Field of Injury Prevention
Contemporary approaches to child protection are dominated by individualized forensically focused interventions that provide limited scope for more holistic preventative responses to children at risk and the provision of support to struggling families and communities. However, in many jurisdictions, it is frequently shown, often through public inquiries and program reviews, that investigatory and removal approaches are failing in critically import…
The social exclusion of children left behind in China
This paper examines the social exclusion of rural Chinese children who are separated from their migrant parents, and outlines social care measures to address this issue. Based on a qualitative inquiry with 23 Chinese kin caregivers and five school personnel, we identify the psychosocial and relational impacts on children left behind in family, school and community contexts. The research sheds light on concerns for children’s social and emotional …
Empowering Children Left Behind in China
In the last two decades in rural China, increasing numbers of children of economic migrants have been left behind with kin, which is of growing concern for social work and welfare policy. The genesis of this rural to urban migration has been China's rapid economic development and greater opportunities for work in better paying jobs in cities. However, there is growing evidence of the negative impact upon these children. This paper reports the vie…
Carer perspectives of factors affecting placement trajectories of children in out-of-home care
Informal kin caregivers raising children left behind in rural China: Experiences' feelings' and support
The well‐being of children in informal kinship care and their caregivers is a growing concern globally. This study explored the lived experiences of 23 kin caregivers raising children left behind in rural Northeast China while their migrant parents worked and lived in cities. The findings show that the expected authority and responsibility caregivers carry sometimes conflict with their social role of being children's grandparents. Caregivers' fee…
Advancing a prevention-oriented support system for the health and safety of children
Norwegian Child Welfare Managers’ perceptions of the impacts of Covid-19 infection control measures upon service functionality: A longitudinal study
Suiting up: Preparing workforces to take on the mantle of preventing child maltreatment from a public health perspective
Political science (21 works) · Psychology (20 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Public relations (14 works) · Social Work (14 works) · Child Welfare and Adoption (11 works) · Medicine (10 works) · Social Work Education and Practice (10 works) · Child Abuse and Trauma (9 works) · Economic growth (9 works)