News and events
Read about upcoming and past events in the School of Counselling, Human Services and Social Work.
Supervision Conference at Centra Hotel, Mangere, Auckland
30 April – 1 May 2010, Pre-conference workshops 29 April 2010
The School of Counselling, Human Services and Social Work is excited to be supporting and promoting - Aotearoa New Zealand Supervision Conference 2010 - "Common Threads, Different Patterns". This conference builds on the successful 2004 "Weaving together the strands of supervision" Conference and will be of value to professionals from many disciplines. The call for abstracts is open now. Proposals for presentations and workshops to be submitted by 9 October 2009.
Thursday 6 August 2009, Tamaki campus
The School of Counselling, Human Services and Social Work recently hosted a workshop ‘From cancer patient to cancer survivor: Meet the next challenge’ presented by Associate Professor Cindy Davis from the College of Social Work at the University of Tennessee. Approximately thirty people participated in the workshop and included postgraduate students, social work practitioners, nursing practitioners, researchers and academics.
Cindy is a Fulbright Senior Specialist and her recent research and work has been focusing on the needs of cancer patients as they transition from the treatment phase of care into the ‘survivorship’ phase of care and on strategies to assist with a successful transition to long-term survivorship. She has recently published a book on working with women with cancer: Davis, C. (2009). Oncology social work practice in the care of breast and ovarian cancer survivors. New York: Nova Science Publishers.
Highlights of her presentation included a discussion on the impact of the diagnosis of breast cancer, problems with care for cancer patients – which seem to be more pronounced in the US than in New Zealand, and barriers to psychosocial care. She also offered a model of cancer survivorship, emphasising aspects of risk resilience and strength and effectively reminded participants of the ‘invisible suitcase’ we all carry.
Feedback from the workshop was very positive and the event was clearly both an informative and reflective exercise for most.
Wednesday 15 July 2009, Epsom campus
Professor Bob Lonne is Inaugural Professor of Social Work at Queensland University of Technology and President, Australian Association of Social Workers.
Bob is widely acknowledged as successfully leading significant change processes that have helped to reposition and restructure the AASW. In addition, he is in the vanguard of broader systemic changes to re-vision and contemporise the social work profession in the 21st century’s political and societal contexts.
Workshop 1
The role of the AASW in the National Apology for the Stolen Generations: Indigenous development issues and implications for social work practice. Public perceptions; First Nation expectations.
In February 2008 Kevin Rudd delivered ‘The National Apology to the Stolen Generations.’ The Australian Association of Social Workers had endorsed a Statement of Apology on behalf of Australia’s social welfare sector in 1997. Many social workers engaged professionally and personally in the call for a national apology. As President of the AASW, Bob has been involved in the Rudd Government’s National Apology, a watershed Australian event.
Workshop 2
Reimagining child welfare in the 21st century: Possibilities for change and building ethical practice.
Bob has co-authored with Nigel Parton, Jane Thomson, Maria Harries (2009) Reforming child protection, Routledge.
Reforming child protection makes a case for urgent reform of statutory child protection in many Anglophone countries. The authors argue that Western approaches are flawed, negatively impacting families and professionals in the field. The authors propose a far reaching framework for transformation.
The National Association for Loss and Grief (NZ) Inc / Te Rōpu Mirimiri Aitua mo Aotearoa held a one day conference on Friday 3 July at the Tamaki Campus, University of Auckland.
Keynote speaker: Dr Tracey McIntosh “Engaging Death: Demonstrations of Mourning”
Dr Tracey McIntosh (Tuhoe) is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Auckland and the Joint Director of Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga: New Zealand’s Māori Centre of Research Excellence. Her research interests include processes of marginalization and exteriorization. She has been a Fulbright Visiting Lecturer in New Zealand Studies at Georgetown, Washington DC and she has taught and researched in the Pacific, France and in central Africa.
Full programme and registration form
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Liz Beddoe and Jane Maidment's book titled Mapping knowledge for social work practice was officially launched on Wednesday 8 July 2009.
Synopsis
With a strong focus on the key issues and debates within social work in Australasia, this text provides a range of pathways for students to investigate increasingly complex practice challenges in both classroom and placement settings. Eight core curriculum areas are addressed and highlighted with relevant practice examples and exercises.
