Dyann Ross

University of the Sunshine Coast | USC ·  Discipline of Social Work and Sociology

Challenges relating to first-year student retention and learning outcomes are recognized as a multi-faceted issue in the tertiary education sector across many professional programs, including social work. Graduating students can find it difficult to establish themselves in the workplace. The researchers wanted to understand if fostering a sense of...

Can intersectional, anti-racist, feminist, and minority educators safely dissent in their workplaces? Are we seen as ‘misbehaving’ when we raise concerns? What are the parameters of institutional allyship and advocacy? Being advocates for truth-telling and social justice in a neoliberal organisation may lead to intersectional, feminist, and minorit...

Parental alienation is a form of child psychological abuse in which one parent uses alienating behaviours to induce the child to reject the other parent. The rejection is incongruent with the child’s historical relationship with the rejected or alienated parent and may result in adverse outcomes for the child and their rejected parent. There has be...

The research gathered lived experience accounts of emotional wellbeing as a counter to the over-focus on illness and deficit language and approaches in mental health practice. The exploratory research study involved semi-interviews with mental health peer mentor trainees, carers and practitioners to explore their ideas about emotional wellbeing, wh...

Critical events in Leonard Matlovich’s life depict a reluctant activist for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender/gender diverse, and queer+ (LGBTQ+) equality. He served in the US military and subsequently came to personify the broad social challenges to the military’s homophobic culture and recruitment practices. Matlovich’s experience of a series o...

Spatial, relational and cultural safety are critical elements of trauma-informed social work practice, gaining momentum in social work education. Culturally responsive and trauma-informed pedagogical approaches meet the definition of safety. The aim is to create a democratic, collaborative, and reflexive space whereby students and educators can fee...

The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has shifted clinical social work (CSW) and mental health education in Australia, and indeed throughout much of the globe, onto online delivery. The disruption caused by COVID-19 presents unexpected challenges in fostering the development of skill sets among social work educators in partnership with students. This...