A5081805377- Social Work Education and Practice
- Interprofessional Education and Collaboration
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Research in Social Sciences
- Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
- Migration and Labor Dynamics
- Cultural Competency in Health Care
- Migration, Refugees, and Integration
- International Student and Expatriate Challenges
- Global Health Workforce Issues
- Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development
- Community Development and Social Impact
- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
- Health, psychology, and well-being
- Global Education and Multiculturalism
- Service-Learning and Community Engagement
- Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
- Diaspora, migration, transnational identity
- Healthcare innovation and challenges
- Empathy and Medical Education
- Art Therapy and Mental Health
- Mental Health and Patient Involvement
- Cultural Differences and Values
James Cook University
2014-2024
Australian National University
2021
Bridge University
2016
University of the Sunshine Coast
2001-2007
North Eastern Hill University
1991
Cultural diversity and its impact on mental health has become an increasingly important issue in a globalised world where the interactions between cultures continue to grow exponentially. This paper presents critical areas which culture impacts health, such as how illness are perceived, coping styles, treatment-seeking patterns, of history, racism, bias stereotyping, gender, family, stigma discrimination.While cultural differences provide number challenges policy practice they also...
The processes of globalisation are increasing cross-cultural interactions at exponentially faster rates and in increasingly complex ways. While these can lead to much greater opportunities for positive change all aspects human life, they also conflict between cultures, whether overt or covert. In this article, cultural competence, a very popular framework working across is critically examined some the major issues with using explored. An alternative framework, ‘culturally dynamic...
Transnational migration explores the realities of individuals, families, and groups whose lives are rooted in more than one nation-state. People's within this context characterised by simultaneous connections identities as they negotiate multiple host societies transnational relationships. This article issues partner choice marriage among members Indian community Australia. Based on interviews with young people, parents, elders, leaders, we demonstrate that complex, contradictory, selective...
INTRODUCTION: Internationalisation of social work education is part a rapidly growing international tertiary sector; one that actively being promoted by governments and universities to support student learning engagement develop global citizens. International partnership programmes form core the internationalisation education, these may involve inequity in benefits different partners. This article critically reflects on, explores, concepts reciprocity collaboration exchanges with specific...
International student exchange is pursued by Australian schools of social work as a strategy to engage with the internationalisation agenda set government, universities, and profession. However, little concrete information about nature scope these activities exists. The study reported here aimed address this gap. Twenty-seven 30 universities that offer programs participated in an online survey international activities. results indicate majority (n = 23) do such activities, field placements...
The above words adopted as a motto in Australia at the beginning of 1990s reflect mood community development workers and grass roots activists we head into new century. Communities have struggled over centuries about way to allocate resources within society how live harmony with each other. Those who power others. This can be used often exclude others set up structures that perpetuate oppression society. Privileged positions communities are only sustained because significant sectors carry...
Refugees are people who move involuntarily from their country of residence often witnessing disasters, wars and the deaths immediate family members prior to fleeing. In each these instances, refugees experience traumatic situations that provoke strong reactions emotions. This is exacerbated by difficult refugee processing systems, detention waiting in camps, all which make migration patterns settlement processes for very different those other migrants. The psychological effects trauma...
Crisis in society can be caused by a number of social, political, environmental and economic factors including dramatic immediate ones like the assassination national leaders or 9/11 attacks United States, they could longer term Global Financial Crisis.They all have significant effects terms intense distress within individuals communities.They also bring out best worst human responses.In particular, crises that directly indirectly blamed on agency are very prone to turned into issues racism...