Barbara Blundell

Biographic Data

ID6024726
NAMEBarbara Blundell
GIVEN NAMESBarbara
FAMILY NAMEBlundell
SIGNATUREBLUNDELL B
AFFILIATIONSCurtin University
ORCID0000-0003-3224-7596
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS6
WORKS AS AUTHOR8
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Invisible Care

    Open AccessChristina Fernandes, Rebecca Moran et al.ARTICLEAffilia2025References: 13

    The normalisation and consequent invisibility of women's care work is well-studied and interrogated critically. However, a subset of women (older women in particular), have been left out of this critical engagement, and rendered even more invisible in an arrangement that benefits the state, society and the community. Custodial grandmothers, as kin carers, take on the responsibility of care for their grandchildren for a range of reasons and varied…

  • Identifying the service and social policy needs, gaps, barriers and enablers for grandparent carers

    Open AccessBarbara Blundell, Christina Fernandes et al.ARTICLEFamily Relations2024

  • Exploring Categories of Family Violence Across the Lifespan

    Open AccessAmy Warren, Barbara Blundell et al.ARTICLETrauma Violence & Abuse2024

    Family violence may be experienced at any stage of the lifespan; however, these experiences are often understood differently based on the age of the victim and who perpetrates the abuse. The significance of age is evident in the three categories of child abuse, domestic and family violence (DFV), and elder abuse. Each of these categories has its own definition which determines who is considered a victim or a perpetrator, and the behaviors counted…

  • Child Protection Staff Perspectives of the Soft Program

    Open AccessJarra Kittow, Barbara Blundell et al.ARTICLEAustralian Social Work2024Cited by: 1References: 1

    Aboriginal children are overrepresented in Australia's child protection system, and limited tools are available to assist with connecting these children to their culture. The Stitching Our Future Together (SOFT) Program, developed in consultation with Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal peoples, services, and other specialists, is used within the Department of Communities' Child Protection and Family Support (CPFS) Division in Western Australia to addr…

  • Bearing Witness

    Open AccessKate Duncanson, Phoebe Kingston et al.ARTICLEThe British Journal of Social Work2024References: 20

    Social work student supervision during field education is a mandated requirement where students review their activities and learning in the workplace with field educators (FEs). Inevitably service users will be discussed in supervision but will have little or no opportunity to represent their perspectives during sessions. In order to explore how service user perspectives might be integrated into supervision, this qualitative study examined the pa…

  • It's not fair’

    Open AccessChristina Fernandes, Barbara Blundell et al.ARTICLEChild & Family Social Work2021Cited by: 5References: 10

    Grandparents become custodial carers of their grandchildren for a variety of reasons, including love, fear of losing the children to the system, efforts to protect children while managing relationships with the adult child (parent), policy impetus, and even for the convenience of child protection systems. As obvious candidates for care provision, grandparents report feeling pressured to take on care, and yet many grandcarers are poorly supported …

  • Family Group Conferencing as an Additional Service Response to the Abuse of Older People in Australia

    Barbara Blundell, Joe Clare et al.ARTICLEAustralian Social Work2021References: 2

    The abuse of older people, often perpetrated by family and friends, is a complex multidimensional social problem. In most Australian jurisdictions, responses are currently limited to either primary-level (information, education and referral) or tertiary-level statutory responses. Outside of Australia, Family Group Conferencing has partially addressed this secondary-level service gap by inviting the older person and their wider family system to id…

  • Best Practice for Estimating Elder Abuse Prevalence in Australia

    Emily Moir, Barbara Blundell et al.ARTICLECurrent Issues in Criminal Justice2017

    In June 2017, the Australian Law Reform Commission (‘ALRC’) released the Inquiry on Protecting the Rights of Older Australians from Abuse. A national elder abuse prevalence study was a key recommendation to: (1) measure the extent of this problem within Australia; (2) help arrange availability and demand for resources, and responses delivered by statutory authorities and organisations; and (3) evaluate the effectiveness of services designed to pr…