Sonya Stanford
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 6023787 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Sonya Stanford |
| PRENOMES | Sonya |
| SOBRENOME | Stanford |
| ASSINATURA | STANFORD S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Tasmania |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5362-9951 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 10 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 60 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 10 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2008 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Saving Australian Social Work
In 2020, the Australian Government proposed a new model of higher education funding that purported to incentivise study in national priority areas. However, despite shortages of social workers, the initial proposal doubled the student fee contribution for a social work degree. The Save Social Work Australia campaign was established by the Australian Council of Heads of Schools of Social Work to redress errant assumptions underpinning the funding …
Educating Social Workers in the Midst of Covid-19
Social work education in Australia in the midst of Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) would not have been possible under our pre-pandemic accreditation standards due to assumptions about best practice in higher education that were not possible to enact during the pandemic. Rather than immediately arguing for a new set of standards, as Heads of Social Work programmes the authors of this paper promoted a principles-led approach to inform ‘the rig…
Navigating risk and protective factors for family violence during and after the Covid-19 ‘perfect storm’
The social conditions triggered by the global COVID-19 pandemic have been described as a ‘perfect storm’, which could incite and exacerbate incidences of family violence (FV). This article proposes strategies to reduce the anticipated impact of COVID-19 on FV based on lessons learnt from available evidence. The evidence base on factors linking pandemics, conflicts, and disasters with violence against women and children (VAW/C) as well as risk and…
Mental Health Social Work
As we write this editorial, the Australian Government has launched a major reform of the Australian mental health system. According to Professor Ian Hickie, one of the National Mental Health Commis
Trust and the Dilemmas of Suicide Risk Assessment in Non-government Mental Health Services
Reducing suicide rates is a national mental health priority as over 2,200 people die from suicide each year in Australia. Increasingly, nongovernment organisations (NGOs) provide services to people experiencing severe and persistent mental illnesses—a significant cohort at risk of suicide. While clinical services are generally seen as the arbiters of risk, little is known of how suicide risk assessments are undertaken in NGOs. This article report…
Undoing Privilege
Bob Pease writes with a clear sense of purpose in his book, Undoing Privilege: Unearned Advantage in a Divided World. His intent is to alert his reader to the existence, form, dynamics, and impact
Welfare Dependence or Enforced Deprivation? A Critical Examination of White Neoliberal Welfare and Risk
Social policy, service delivery, and professional practice in social work and human services have been increasingly enacted in contexts where welfare and welfare dependency are characterised as significant and persistent social problems in Australia. In this paper, we theoretically and critically examine the “problem” of welfare and propose an alternative framework for progressing understanding and action. We consider how Whiteness theory, neoins…
Constructing Moral Responses to Risk
The progressive politics of social work is threatened as social workers confront the widening gulf between professional ideals and the realities of their practice within the morally conservative context of neo-liberal risk society. Identifying how to subvert the despondency and despair that such a climate evokes, and being able to connect to an increased sense of professional agency, is urgently needed. This paper provides insight into how this c…
Speaking Back' to Fear
The rhetoric of risk is used within neo-liberal risk society to mobilise fear as an emotive, defensive and strategic medium for advancing the values of safety and security. In this context it is argued that risk, driven by the politics of fear, has re-oriented social work practice towards managing and securing against risk as opposed to genuine attempts to respond meaningfully to need. According to this discourse social workers are fearful - we f…
Taking a stand or playing it safe
An emergent critical social work risk literature positions risk as a morally conservative construct that has repressive effects in direct social work practice. In this literature it is argued that how risk is defined and operationalised in social work reflects the political dominance of neo-liberalism as an ethos of government within the context of the social and cultural conditions of the risk society. This narrative is fast becoming a dominant …
Speaking Back' to Fear
The rhetoric of risk is used within neo-liberal risk society to mobilise fear as an emotive, defensive and strategic medium for advancing the values of safety and security. In this context it is argued that risk, driven by the politics of fear, has re-oriented social work practice towards managing and securing against risk as opposed to genuine attempts to respond meaningfully to need. According to this discourse social workers are fearful - we f…
Welfare Dependence or Enforced Deprivation? A Critical Examination of White Neoliberal Welfare and Risk
Social policy, service delivery, and professional practice in social work and human services have been increasingly enacted in contexts where welfare and welfare dependency are characterised as significant and persistent social problems in Australia. In this paper, we theoretically and critically examine the “problem” of welfare and propose an alternative framework for progressing understanding and action. We consider how Whiteness theory, neoins…
Taking a stand or playing it safe
An emergent critical social work risk literature positions risk as a morally conservative construct that has repressive effects in direct social work practice. In this literature it is argued that how risk is defined and operationalised in social work reflects the political dominance of neo-liberalism as an ethos of government within the context of the social and cultural conditions of the risk society. This narrative is fast becoming a dominant …
Constructing Moral Responses to Risk
The progressive politics of social work is threatened as social workers confront the widening gulf between professional ideals and the realities of their practice within the morally conservative context of neo-liberal risk society. Identifying how to subvert the despondency and despair that such a climate evokes, and being able to connect to an increased sense of professional agency, is urgently needed. This paper provides insight into how this c…
Saving Australian Social Work
In 2020, the Australian Government proposed a new model of higher education funding that purported to incentivise study in national priority areas. However, despite shortages of social workers, the initial proposal doubled the student fee contribution for a social work degree. The Save Social Work Australia campaign was established by the Australian Council of Heads of Schools of Social Work to redress errant assumptions underpinning the funding …
Educating Social Workers in the Midst of Covid-19
Social work education in Australia in the midst of Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) would not have been possible under our pre-pandemic accreditation standards due to assumptions about best practice in higher education that were not possible to enact during the pandemic. Rather than immediately arguing for a new set of standards, as Heads of Social Work programmes the authors of this paper promoted a principles-led approach to inform ‘the rig…
Trust and the Dilemmas of Suicide Risk Assessment in Non-government Mental Health Services
Reducing suicide rates is a national mental health priority as over 2,200 people die from suicide each year in Australia. Increasingly, nongovernment organisations (NGOs) provide services to people experiencing severe and persistent mental illnesses—a significant cohort at risk of suicide. While clinical services are generally seen as the arbiters of risk, little is known of how suicide risk assessments are undertaken in NGOs. This article report…
Mental Health Social Work
As we write this editorial, the Australian Government has launched a major reform of the Australian mental health system. According to Professor Ian Hickie, one of the National Mental Health Commis
Undoing Privilege
Bob Pease writes with a clear sense of purpose in his book, Undoing Privilege: Unearned Advantage in a Divided World. His intent is to alert his reader to the existence, form, dynamics, and impact
Taking a stand or playing it safe
An emergent critical social work risk literature positions risk as a morally conservative construct that has repressive effects in direct social work practice. In this literature it is argued that how risk is defined and operationalised in social work reflects the political dominance of neo-liberalism as an ethos of government within the context of the social and cultural conditions of the risk society. This narrative is fast becoming a dominant …
Speaking Back' to Fear
The rhetoric of risk is used within neo-liberal risk society to mobilise fear as an emotive, defensive and strategic medium for advancing the values of safety and security. In this context it is argued that risk, driven by the politics of fear, has re-oriented social work practice towards managing and securing against risk as opposed to genuine attempts to respond meaningfully to need. According to this discourse social workers are fearful - we f…
Constructing Moral Responses to Risk
The progressive politics of social work is threatened as social workers confront the widening gulf between professional ideals and the realities of their practice within the morally conservative context of neo-liberal risk society. Identifying how to subvert the despondency and despair that such a climate evokes, and being able to connect to an increased sense of professional agency, is urgently needed. This paper provides insight into how this c…
Undoing Privilege
Bob Pease writes with a clear sense of purpose in his book, Undoing Privilege: Unearned Advantage in a Divided World. His intent is to alert his reader to the existence, form, dynamics, and impact
Welfare Dependence or Enforced Deprivation? A Critical Examination of White Neoliberal Welfare and Risk
Social policy, service delivery, and professional practice in social work and human services have been increasingly enacted in contexts where welfare and welfare dependency are characterised as significant and persistent social problems in Australia. In this paper, we theoretically and critically examine the “problem” of welfare and propose an alternative framework for progressing understanding and action. We consider how Whiteness theory, neoins…
Mental Health Social Work
As we write this editorial, the Australian Government has launched a major reform of the Australian mental health system. According to Professor Ian Hickie, one of the National Mental Health Commis
Trust and the Dilemmas of Suicide Risk Assessment in Non-government Mental Health Services
Reducing suicide rates is a national mental health priority as over 2,200 people die from suicide each year in Australia. Increasingly, nongovernment organisations (NGOs) provide services to people experiencing severe and persistent mental illnesses—a significant cohort at risk of suicide. While clinical services are generally seen as the arbiters of risk, little is known of how suicide risk assessments are undertaken in NGOs. This article report…
Navigating risk and protective factors for family violence during and after the Covid-19 ‘perfect storm’
The social conditions triggered by the global COVID-19 pandemic have been described as a ‘perfect storm’, which could incite and exacerbate incidences of family violence (FV). This article proposes strategies to reduce the anticipated impact of COVID-19 on FV based on lessons learnt from available evidence. The evidence base on factors linking pandemics, conflicts, and disasters with violence against women and children (VAW/C) as well as risk and…
Educating Social Workers in the Midst of Covid-19
Social work education in Australia in the midst of Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) would not have been possible under our pre-pandemic accreditation standards due to assumptions about best practice in higher education that were not possible to enact during the pandemic. Rather than immediately arguing for a new set of standards, as Heads of Social Work programmes the authors of this paper promoted a principles-led approach to inform ‘the rig…
Saving Australian Social Work
In 2020, the Australian Government proposed a new model of higher education funding that purported to incentivise study in national priority areas. However, despite shortages of social workers, the initial proposal doubled the student fee contribution for a social work degree. The Save Social Work Australia campaign was established by the Australian Council of Heads of Schools of Social Work to redress errant assumptions underpinning the funding …
Political science (9 obras) · Sociology (8 obras) · Homelessness and Social Issues (7 obras) · Law (7 obras) · Social Work Education and Practice (7 obras) · Mental Health and Patient Involvement (6 obras) · Psychology (6 obras) · Social Work (6 obras) · Engineering (4 obras) · Law (4 obras)