Social Work and Social Planning

Decompensation: A Novel Approach to Accounting for Stress Arising from the Effects of Ideology and Social Norms

Riggs, Damien Wayne; Treharne, Gareth J (Taylor & Francis, 2016-05-26)

To date, research that has drawn on Meyer’s (2003) minority stress model has largely taken for granted the premises underpinning it. In this article we provide a close reading of how “stress” is conceptualized in the model ...

Experiences of separation and divorce among foster and adoptive families: the need for supportive responses

Riggs, Damien Wayne; Blythe, Stacy (SAGE Publications, 2016-01-01)

Separation and divorce are realities facing many families. Yet in the case of foster or adoptive families, only a small number of studies have focused on experiences of separation or divorce. This paper seeks to make an ...

‘I want to bring him from the aeroplane to here’: The meaning of animals to children of refugee or migrant backgrounds resettled in Australia

Riggs, Damien Wayne; Due, Clemence; Taylor, Nik (Wiley, 2016-11-19)

Separation from animals with whom children have caring relationships can lead to considerable loss and grief, perhaps especially in the case of migration. This article reports on a thematic analysis of interviews undertaken ...

A systematic review of research on psychiatric mother-baby units

Connellan, Kathleen; Bartholomaeus, Clare; Due, Clemence; Riggs, Damien Wayne (Springer, 2017-03-22)

Psychiatric mother-baby units (MBUs) are currently viewed as best practice, particularly in the UK, Australia and France, for improving outcomes for mothers and babies when the former are experiencing severe forms of mental ...

Hegemonic masculinity vs. a caring masculinity: Implications for understanding primary caregiving fathers

Hunter, Sarah C; Riggs, Damien Wayne; Augoustinos, Martha (Wiley, 2017-03-08)

Recently, there has been a growing interest in what is positioned as a new form of masculinity arising from the increase in fathers as primary caregivers. This new form is referred to as a “caring masculinity” and is ...

The capacity of South Australian primary school teachers and pre-service teachers to work with trans and gender diverse students

Bartholomaeus, Clare; Riggs, Damien Wayne; Andrew, Yarrow (Elsevier, 2017-03-26)

Growing numbers of young people are disclosing that they are trans or gender diverse, requiring affirming and informed responses from schools. This article reports on a survey examining attitudes towards inclusion, comfort, ...

Daughters and their mothers: The reproduction of pronatalist discourses across generations

Bartholomaeus, Clare; Riggs, Damien Wayne (Elsevier, 2017-03-16)

The expectation that all women will become mothers, and that they will mother in particular ways, has been a focus of feminist attention for many decades. What has been less considered is how pronatalist discourses are ...

Domestic violence and companion animals in the context of LGBT people’s relationships

Taylor, Nik; Fraser, Heather Merle; Riggs, Damien Wayne (SAGE Publications, 2017-02-17)

The link between domestic violence and animal abuse has now been well established, indicating that where there is one form of abuse, there is often the other. Research on this link, however, has almost exclusively focused ...

Intending fathers: heterosexual men planning for a first child

Bartholomaeus, Clare; Riggs, Damien Wayne (Taylor & Francis, 2017-05-24)

Having a child is often treated as a taken for granted part of heterosexual relationships, a norm so entrenched that there is often little discussion amongst couples as to why they want children. In terms of research, while ...

“It’s just what you do”: Australian middle-class heterosexual couples negotiating compulsory parenthood

Riggs, Damien Wayne; Bartholomaeus, Clare (SAGE Publications, 2016-12-15)

A distinction is often made between the “choice” of not having children and the claim that having children is “natural”. What disappears in this distinction is the fact that having children is most often a choice. This ...

The transition to parenthood for Australian heterosexual couples: expectations, experiences and the partner relationship

Riggs, Damien Wayne; Worth, Anna; Bartholomaeus, Clare (BioMed Central, 2018-08-22)

Background: The perinatal period precipitates significant intra- and inter- personal changes. How heterosexual couples understand and account for such changes, however, has received relatively little attention. Methods: ...

Making matter matter: Meanings accorded to genetic material among Australian gay men

Riggs, Damien Wayne (Elsevier, 2018-07-24)

As growing numbers of gay men enter into the reproductive realm, opportunities emerge for the rewriting or revision of kinship ties. Given the hegemonic status of genetic matter in the context of kinship, however, it is ...

Support for family diversity: a three-country study

Riggs, Damien Wayne; Due, Clemence (Taylor & Francis, 2018-02-12)

Objective: To understand levels of support for differences between families in terms of sexuality and mode of family formation across three countries. Background: Previous research has found that attitudes towards family ...

Gaslighting in the context of clinical interactions with parents of transgender children

Riggs, Damien Wayne; Bartholomaeus, Clare (Taylor & Francis, 2018-02-28)

Understood as a type of identity-related abuse, gaslighting is a form of manipulation where the perpetrator attempts to convince someone that their thoughts, perceptions, or beliefs are mistaken. In the clinical context, ...

‘That’s my job’: accounting for division of labour amongst heterosexual first time parents

Riggs, Damien Wayne; Bartholomaeus, Clare (Taylor & Francis, 2018-04-10)

For heterosexual couples who enter into parenthood, having a first child often has a significant impact on the ways in which their lives are organised. Importantly, women typically take on the greatest share of household ...

Transgender young people’s narratives of intimacy and sexual health: Implications for sexuality education

Riggs, Damien Wayne; Bartholomaeus, Clare (Taylor & Francis, 2018-07-19)

Sexuality education as pedagogy is often fraught by the perceived need to balance the informational needs of young people with an investment in notions of childhood innocence. Nowhere is this perhaps more evident than ...

The link between domestic violence and abuse and animal cruelty in the intimate relationship of people of diverse genders and/or sexualities: a bi-national study

Riggs, Damien Wayne; Taylor, Nik; Fraser, Heather Merle; Donovan, Catherine; Signal, Tania (SAGE Publications, 2018-04-21)

Over the past three decades, a growing body of research has focused on experiences of domestic violence and abuse (DVA) among people of diverse genders and/or sexualities. Missing, however, has been a focus on what is known ...