Lynelle Watts
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3886874 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Lynelle Watts |
| PRENOMES | Lynelle |
| SOBRENOME | Watts |
| ASSINATURA | WATTS L |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Curtin University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5886-5889 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 41 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2015 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
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…
Critiquing the categorisation and measurement of disability, and family and domestic violence
Women with disability (WWD) are considerably more likely to experience family and domestic violence (FDV) victimisation than women generally, however, estimates vary widely. This article considers the extent to which studies are able to apply intersectional understandings of FDV against WWD to the categorisation and measurement of the issue. A literature review of ProQuest and Scopus was undertaken in 2021. Peer-reviewed articles, books and book …
Exploring the Practice of Social Justice in Social Work Healthcare
Empathy in Social Work
Exploring Lived Experience of Family and Domestic Violence Against Women With Disability
This article reports on a scoping review exploring understandings of family and domestic violence (FDV) against women with disability (WWD) within the literature and constitutes the second article in a two-part series, the first critiquing the categorization and measurement of FDV and disability. We report findings from qualitative studies included in the review, predominantly interpretivist and critical in orientation. The scoping review include…
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, …
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
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, …
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…
Exploring Fathers’ Experiences in Caring for Their Child on a Paediatric Oncology Ward
The role of fathers in the provision of care for their children is changing. This research explored fathers’ experiences of caring for their child with cancer within a paediatric oncology ward in Australia and to what extent, if any, gendered expectations played a role in their experiences. Semistructured interviews were conducted with six fathers to explore their current experiences of caring. This study found that their child’s individual journ…
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…
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…
Values, Beliefs, and Attitudes About Reflective Practice in Australian Social Work Education and Practice
Reflective practice and critical reflection are considered crucial to learning and practising social work. Based on qualitative analysis of interviews with Australian social work practitioners, students, and academics this article offers a description of the strong normative role reflective practice plays in contemporary social work practice. The research was conducted as part of a larger interpretive study into how reflective practice is underst…
Social Work
With the advent of the Australian Government Job-Ready Graduates Package and the recent campaign to #savesocialwork in Australia, it seems timely to consider the implications of this move for profe
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…
Reflective Practice, Reflexivity, and Critical Reflection in Social Work Education in Australia
Reflective practice, reflexivity, and critical reflection are now widely accepted as important in contemporary social work practice. Despite this, there remain differences in how the terms are discussed within the literature. This results in confusion in how students are instructed about reflective practice, reflexivity, and critical reflection. This paper presents a proposal for clarifying these concepts based on the results from an interpretive…
Where does Reflection and Critical Reflection Come into Social Work Teaching
The issue of teaching critical analysis is an important point raised in this critical commentary. I share the same concerns about the need for critical analysis in social work education. I also think a robust account of the way in which reflexivity, different forms of reflective practice, and critical reflection impact and structure the conditions of possibility for critical analysis might help us strengthen our instructional practices.\n
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…
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…
Reflective Practice, Reflexivity, and Critical Reflection in Social Work Education in Australia
Reflective practice, reflexivity, and critical reflection are now widely accepted as important in contemporary social work practice. Despite this, there remain differences in how the terms are discussed within the literature. This results in confusion in how students are instructed about reflective practice, reflexivity, and critical reflection. This paper presents a proposal for clarifying these concepts based on the results from an interpretive…
Where does Reflection and Critical Reflection Come into Social Work Teaching
The issue of teaching critical analysis is an important point raised in this critical commentary. I share the same concerns about the need for critical analysis in social work education. I also think a robust account of the way in which reflexivity, different forms of reflective practice, and critical reflection impact and structure the conditions of possibility for critical analysis might help us strengthen our instructional practices.\n
Artificial Intelligence and Implications for the Australian Social Work Journal
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
With the advent of the Australian Government Job-Ready Graduates Package and the recent campaign to #savesocialwork in Australia, it seems timely to consider the implications of this move for profe
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…
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…
Values, Beliefs, and Attitudes About Reflective Practice in Australian Social Work Education and Practice
Reflective practice and critical reflection are considered crucial to learning and practising social work. Based on qualitative analysis of interviews with Australian social work practitioners, students, and academics this article offers a description of the strong normative role reflective practice plays in contemporary social work practice. The research was conducted as part of a larger interpretive study into how reflective practice is underst…
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…
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 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…
Reflective Practice, Reflexivity, and Critical Reflection in Social Work Education in Australia
Reflective practice, reflexivity, and critical reflection are now widely accepted as important in contemporary social work practice. Despite this, there remain differences in how the terms are discussed within the literature. This results in confusion in how students are instructed about reflective practice, reflexivity, and critical reflection. This paper presents a proposal for clarifying these concepts based on the results from an interpretive…
Where does Reflection and Critical Reflection Come into Social Work Teaching
The issue of teaching critical analysis is an important point raised in this critical commentary. I share the same concerns about the need for critical analysis in social work education. I also think a robust account of the way in which reflexivity, different forms of reflective practice, and critical reflection impact and structure the conditions of possibility for critical analysis might help us strengthen our instructional practices.\n
Social Work
With the advent of the Australian Government Job-Ready Graduates Package and the recent campaign to #savesocialwork in Australia, it seems timely to consider the implications of this move for profe
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…
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…
Values, Beliefs, and Attitudes About Reflective Practice in Australian Social Work Education and Practice
Reflective practice and critical reflection are considered crucial to learning and practising social work. Based on qualitative analysis of interviews with Australian social work practitioners, students, and academics this article offers a description of the strong normative role reflective practice plays in contemporary social work practice. The research was conducted as part of a larger interpretive study into how reflective practice is underst…
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, …
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…
Exploring Fathers’ Experiences in Caring for Their Child on a Paediatric Oncology Ward
The role of fathers in the provision of care for their children is changing. This research explored fathers’ experiences of caring for their child with cancer within a paediatric oncology ward in Australia and to what extent, if any, gendered expectations played a role in their experiences. Semistructured interviews were conducted with six fathers to explore their current experiences of caring. This study found that their child’s individual journ…
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
Exploring Lived Experience of Family and Domestic Violence Against Women With Disability
This article reports on a scoping review exploring understandings of family and domestic violence (FDV) against women with disability (WWD) within the literature and constitutes the second article in a two-part series, the first critiquing the categorization and measurement of FDV and disability. We report findings from qualitative studies included in the review, predominantly interpretivist and critical in orientation. The scoping review include…
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, …
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…
Critiquing the categorisation and measurement of disability, and family and domestic violence
Women with disability (WWD) are considerably more likely to experience family and domestic violence (FDV) victimisation than women generally, however, estimates vary widely. This article considers the extent to which studies are able to apply intersectional understandings of FDV against WWD to the categorisation and measurement of the issue. A literature review of ProQuest and Scopus was undertaken in 2021. Peer-reviewed articles, books and book …
Exploring the Practice of Social Justice in Social Work Healthcare
Empathy in Social Work
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