Thea Brown
Biographic Data
| ID | 6468475 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thea Brown |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thea |
| FAMILY NAME | Brown |
| SIGNATURE | BROWN T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Family Court of Australia |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6303-6260 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Child Abuse and Family Law
I have no doubt that this book will become an invaluable tool for family and children's court judges and magistrates, psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, police and the many other professionals who work in this field.'The Honourable Alastair Nicholson, former Chief Justice of the Family Court of Australia A ground-breaking, comprehensive, honest, well researched and courageous book that should be essential reading for all politicians an…
Filicide offenders
Filicide is the killing of a child by a parent or parent equivalent. Between 2000–01 and 2011–12, there were 238 incidents of filicide in Australia involving the death of 284 children. This paper examines the characteristics of custodial parents, non-custodial parents and step-parents charged with the murder or manslaughter of their children. Offender circumstances and characteristics differed according to the offender’s gender and custodial rela…
When Parents Kill Children
Family Violence and Family Law in Australia
Magellan's Discoveries
In 1998, the Family Court of Australia introduced an interagency, multidisciplinary pilot program for managing parenting disputes that involved allegations of child abuse. The program, known as Project Magellan, is an example of the trend in judicial administration toward specialized court programs. It involved one hundred families and several state and federal agencies and human service organizations. This article presents the findings of an eva…
New Social Work or Not Social Work? Social Workers in Local Government
With the rapid expansion of the social services in recent years, social workers have moved into countless new programmes. They have written little of their work there, though. The authors sought to answer questions about the work being undertaken, whether it was similar to the tasks undertaken in the traditional programmes or not. Their interest in so doing was to see if the answers had curricula implications for the Schools of Social Work. The s…
An Experiment in Career Planning
The paper describes a career planning project for final year female students begun in 1984. The project aimed at intervening in the process by which female social work graduates do not progress in their professional careers to the extent that male graduates do. The project revealed the existence of an alarming degree of career passivity amongst eighty percent of the final year female student body. It revealed, also, the existence of a strong care…
Bridging the Gap
This article describes the trends revealed from an analysis of six years of employment studies of new Bachelor of Social Work graduates. Many of the trends identified flew in the face of previous assumptions. Barriers to employment such as age were discovered and so were gateways such as bilingualism. The most interesting result was the relationship found to exist between course content and success in obtaining a social work position, something w…
Unemployment Among Social Work Graduates
High levels of youth unemployment have come to affect even the employment elite of youth, that is university and college graduates. As a result questions have been asked about unemployment among social work graduates who, it is feared, may be at greater risk than other graduates. Using a study she conducted concerning the employment situation of the last graduating class of social work students at Melbourne University (which produces the largest …
Bibliography for 1982
This bibliography is meant to include all books, articles and significant reviews published in any branch of Anglo-Saxon studies during 1982. It excludes reprints unless they contain new material. It will be continued annually. The year of publication of a book or article is 1982 unless otherwise stated
Bridging the Gap
This article describes the trends revealed from an analysis of six years of employment studies of new Bachelor of Social Work graduates. Many of the trends identified flew in the face of previous assumptions. Barriers to employment such as age were discovered and so were gateways such as bilingualism. The most interesting result was the relationship found to exist between course content and success in obtaining a social work position, something w…
Unemployment Among Social Work Graduates
High levels of youth unemployment have come to affect even the employment elite of youth, that is university and college graduates. As a result questions have been asked about unemployment among social work graduates who, it is feared, may be at greater risk than other graduates. Using a study she conducted concerning the employment situation of the last graduating class of social work students at Melbourne University (which produces the largest …
Bibliography for 1982
This bibliography is meant to include all books, articles and significant reviews published in any branch of Anglo-Saxon studies during 1982. It excludes reprints unless they contain new material. It will be continued annually. The year of publication of a book or article is 1982 unless otherwise stated
Bridging the Gap
This article describes the trends revealed from an analysis of six years of employment studies of new Bachelor of Social Work graduates. Many of the trends identified flew in the face of previous assumptions. Barriers to employment such as age were discovered and so were gateways such as bilingualism. The most interesting result was the relationship found to exist between course content and success in obtaining a social work position, something w…
An Experiment in Career Planning
The paper describes a career planning project for final year female students begun in 1984. The project aimed at intervening in the process by which female social work graduates do not progress in their professional careers to the extent that male graduates do. The project revealed the existence of an alarming degree of career passivity amongst eighty percent of the final year female student body. It revealed, also, the existence of a strong care…
New Social Work or Not Social Work? Social Workers in Local Government
With the rapid expansion of the social services in recent years, social workers have moved into countless new programmes. They have written little of their work there, though. The authors sought to answer questions about the work being undertaken, whether it was similar to the tasks undertaken in the traditional programmes or not. Their interest in so doing was to see if the answers had curricula implications for the Schools of Social Work. The s…
Magellan's Discoveries
In 1998, the Family Court of Australia introduced an interagency, multidisciplinary pilot program for managing parenting disputes that involved allegations of child abuse. The program, known as Project Magellan, is an example of the trend in judicial administration toward specialized court programs. It involved one hundred families and several state and federal agencies and human service organizations. This article presents the findings of an eva…
Family Violence and Family Law in Australia
When Parents Kill Children
Filicide offenders
Filicide is the killing of a child by a parent or parent equivalent. Between 2000–01 and 2011–12, there were 238 incidents of filicide in Australia involving the death of 284 children. This paper examines the characteristics of custodial parents, non-custodial parents and step-parents charged with the murder or manslaughter of their children. Offender circumstances and characteristics differed according to the offender’s gender and custodial rela…
Child Abuse and Family Law
I have no doubt that this book will become an invaluable tool for family and children's court judges and magistrates, psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, police and the many other professionals who work in this field.'The Honourable Alastair Nicholson, former Chief Justice of the Family Court of Australia A ground-breaking, comprehensive, honest, well researched and courageous book that should be essential reading for all politicians an…
Psychology (9 works) · Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Criminology (5 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Medicine (3 works)