http://hdl.handle.net/2328/26001 Fri, 24 May 2013 16:41:28 GMT 2013-05-24T16:41:28Z http://hdl.handle.net/2328/26629 Title: Exploring the ethics of forewarning: social workers, confidentiality and potential child abuse disclosures Authors: McLaren, Helen Jaqueline Abstract: This article reports on exploratory research on social workers’ perceptions and actions regarding ‘forewarning’ clients of their child abuse reporting obligations as a limitation of confidentiality at relationship onset. A brief overview of ethical principles and former research relevant to forewarning is given prior to explaining research methods and research outcomes of the current study. Data obtained in the current study, from South Australian social workers engaged in human service work with families, articulates a strong desire to practice in accordance with professional codes of ethics. However, findings suggest proactive forewarning as extremely infrequent, with minimised forewarning accomplished only in response to client initiated inquiry and where prior suspicions of child abuse may exist. Generally, discomfort with forewarning was found to result in its avoidance due to concerns about client retention, working in tense relationships and personal uncertainties about clients' reactions towards participants. Participants’ attention to their own emotive needs more actively than the rights of their clients is correlated with having a private, not a public, model of professionalism when establishing the practice context – a problematic issue for ethical social work. Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2328/26629 2007-03-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2328/26316 Title: Environmental policymaking under Howard: extinguishing the enemy within? Authors: Star, Cassandra Abstract: This paper reflects on the relationship between the government and civil society, specifically environmental non-government organisations (ENGOs), during the Howard era. Three competing explanations were put forward to characterise the relationship during this time. While the Howard era has now come to a close, the lessons to learn and the implications for ENGOs still remain. Key amongst these include the importance of strategic repositioning of campaign strategies, the significance of carefully considering approaches to maintain and strengthen civil society as a whole during periods of hostility, and the crucial task of publicly maintaining and re-establishing the legitimacy of civil society groups and their democratic role while under threat. Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2328/26316 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2328/26315 Title: The effect of the financial crisis and global recession on environmental policy and implementation Authors: MacIntosh, Lorraine; Star, Cassandra Abstract: This paper sets out a research agenda that examines the potential impacts on environmental policy and implementation caused by the global financial crisis and the resulting recession. This financial crisis provides a real world opportunity to test several aspects of ecopolitical theory for two reasons: the recession is the most severe since the 1930s depression; and, modern environmentalism has only been a political force since the 1960s. The paper argues that the global financial crisis provides an opportunity to examine the veracity of three schools of thought - post-materialism, consumer pressure versus citizen preferences, and ecological modernisation. Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2328/26315 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2328/26314 Title: Bhikhu Parekh's multiculturalist critique of liberalism Authors: Crowder, George Errol Abstract: Bhikhu Parekh argues that we must look beyond liberal democracy to a process of 'intercultural dialogue' in order to accommodate the legitimate claims of multiculturalism. He gives two main reasons: first, liberalism is too 'ethnocentric' to be an adequate framework for multiculturalism, because it necessarily depends on values that are distinctively European or Western; second, liberalism is too 'monistic'. The author aims to show these arguments to be mistaken. Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2328/26314 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z