Social Work Spotlight

In this episode I speak with Lisa, an accredited mental health social worker, psychotherapist, and author of Finding My Invisible Sun: Overcoming Trauma. Lisa has lived experience of trauma, mental illness and institutionalised discrimination and has practised therapy for a combined 15 years within a domestic and family violence prevention service and then as an accredited mental health social worker. Links to resources mentioned in this week’s episode: Lisa’s Points of Resistance Theory webinar on eiseEducation - https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1209211 Janina Fisher (and her book The Fragmented Self) - https://janinafisher.com/ Pat Ogden - https://sensorimotorpsychotherapy.org/therapist-directory/pat-ogden-phd/ Learning Emotion-Focused Therapy - https://www.apa.org/pubs/books/4317035 Bessel van der Kolk’s The Body Keeps The Score - https://www.besselvanderkolk.com/resources/the-body-keeps-the-score EMDR Association of Australia - https://emdraa.org/ Lisa’s book Finding My Invisible Sun - https://australianselfpublishinggroup.com/finding-my-invisible-sun/ This episode's transcript can be viewed here:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tDX4X9nDpOkKhOf8gVPdcU5rPElTM1p36wnp7IR3iDk/edit?usp=sharing

In this episode I speak with Rey, an emerging social worker from a culturally and linguistically diverse background, dedicated to supporting families, children, and young people. She currently specialises in assisting families impacted by the criminal justice system and also serves as a casual university social work supervisor.  Links to resources mentioned in this week’s episode: Their Futures Matter (NSW Audit Office) - https://www.audit.nsw.gov.au/our-work/reports/their-futures-matter Transforming Justice Australia - https://www.transformingjustice.org.au/ GambleAware - https://www.gambleaware.org/ This episode's transcript can be viewed here:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RTEirXjQIgNYsZLNSJS7nvp9XOzgGacbwJk0GaFGNx0/edit?usp=sharing

In this episode I speak with Dr Jean Carruthers, a lecturer at the University of Newcastle who received her PhD in 2020 for her work on performance as a critical social work pedagogy. She has built on this to explore a range of creative methods in social work education and practice, with her current work focused on mental health and whether transformative wellbeing practices can be used to address gaps in the sector.  Links to resources mentioned in this week’s episode: Critical Conversations for Social Work Podcast - https://linktr.ee/criticalconversations4sw Jean’s PhD (Critical Performance Pedagogy: An approach for developing critical praxis in social work education) - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02615479.2023.2285848 NNN training (NNN Name, Narrate, Navigate) - https://www.namenarratenavigate.com/ Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theatre_of_the_Oppressed Stephen Brookfield - https://www.stephenbrookfield.com/ Henry Giroux’s ‘On Critical Pedagogy’ - https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/on-critical-pedagogy-9781350144989/ Patricia Hill Collins ‘Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory’ - https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/hypatia/article/intersectionality-as-critical-social-theory-patricia-hill-collins-durham-nc-duke-university-press-2019-isbn-9781478005421/132219F147E569254907767E780ED974 Bell Hooks - https://www.britannica.com/biography/bell-hooks This episode's transcript can be viewed here:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y-Y11XPu3pf4IFrDzhwcPwfvqrQoZF_mKaZkAyTRPVI/edit?usp=sharing

In this episode I speak with Harveen, an Accredited Mental Health Social Worker who has worked as a mental health clinician in both public and private hospital settings with a passion for supporting individuals and groups across a range of mental health journeys and trajectories. Links to resources mentioned in this week’s episode: NEAMI National - https://www.neaminational.org.au/ St John of God Health Care - https://www.sjog.org.au/about-us This episode's transcript can be viewed here:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Zh0ug2rkebscBOWPMt5iAuhWp_mqWQQPX0ZSdeQ1-gw/edit?usp=sharing