The psychological cost of exposure to traumatic events is receiving greater recognition in recent years, especially terms its impact helping professions and emergency services. However, the costs researchers remain relatively unexplored. In this article, we will discuss nature vicarious trauma using two criminological research projects as case studies: one a qualitative project engaging with survivors childhood sexual abuse, other, quantitative analysis police hate crime reports. addition...

The normalisation and consequent invisibility of women's care work is well-studied interrogated critically. However, a subset women (older in particular), have been left out this critical engagement, rendered even more invisible an arrangement that benefits the state, society community. Custodial grandmothers, as kin carers, take on responsibility for their grandchildren range reasons varied lengths time, with or without involvement state. In article, we reflect various explorations...

Abstract Grandparents become custodial carers of their grandchildren for a variety reasons, including love, fear losing the children to system, efforts protect while managing relationships with adult child (parent), policy impetus, and even convenience protection systems. As obvious candidates care provision, grandparents report feeling pressured take on care, yet many grandcarers are poorly supported feel taken granted. Drawing mixed method study grandparent service providers located in...

Through a psychosocial lens, informed by relational psychoanalysis, this article discusses the design, delivery, and impact of The Big Anxiety’s 2022 festival in Warwick, Queensland—an arts-based program that engages with lived experiences trauma, distress, suicide, case devastating youth disproportionately affecting First Nations communities. It describes festival’s methods creative engagement, examining how these create conditions for transformation trauma growth.

Working from a trauma informed lens is increasingly recognized as vital component of social work practice, learning and incorporating lived experience into one's approach to practice. Further, the critical feminist interrogation dominant ideas around professional power expertise within practice necessary in teaching about trauma. This conceptual article describes an integrated fourth year Australian students area violence, abuse, The intentionally immersive framework presents incorporates...

This article draws on theories of therapeutic politics to explore the role institutionalised dignity as a medium for social and political participation traumatised people. Using Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses Child Sexual Abuse case study, offers psychosocial account shame humiliation key characteristics phenomenology trauma, presents organising principle politics. Through interviews with survivors child sexual abuse who testified Commission, well former staff,...

Abstract Objective The goal of this research was to map and identify service social policy needs, gaps, barriers, enablers for Western Australian custodial grandparent carers. Background Grandparents are increasingly providing kinship care their grandchildren, yet there is substantial inconsistency in frameworks, systems, services that offer support grandfamilies across Australia. Method This mixed‐methods project synthesized micro‐ macro‐level data, including carer respondents an online...