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Implementing the HEALing Matters program in residential out-of-home care: Evaluation of carers' commitment to promoting healthy lifestyle behaviours 在家庭外寄宿护理机构中实施 "HEALing Matters "计划：评估照顾者对促进健康生活方式行为的承诺

IF 2 2区社会学

Australian Journal of Social Issues Pub Date : 2024-08-12 DOI: 10.1002/ajs4.359

Rachael Cox (nee Green), Kostas Hatzikiriakidis, Ruby Tate, Lauren Bruce, Madelaine Smales, Addison Crawford-Tagliaferro, Luke Patitsas, Emma Galvin, Helen Skouteris

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Reflections on making public policy (1977–1996) 关于制定公共政策的思考（1977-1996 年）

IF 2 2区社会学

Australian Journal of Social Issues Pub Date : 2024-07-01 DOI: 10.1002/ajs4.348

Brian Howe

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Introducing Indigenist Critical Policy Analysis: A rights-based approach to analysing public policies and processes 介绍本土批判政策分析：分析公共政策和进程的基于权利的方法

IF 2 2区社会学

Australian Journal of Social Issues Pub Date : 2024-07-01 DOI: 10.1002/ajs4.350

Natalie Bryant

{"title":"Introducing Indigenist Critical Policy Analysis: A rights-based approach to analysing public policies and processes","authors":"Natalie Bryant","doi":"10.1002/ajs4.350","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ajs4.350","url":null,"abstract":"Institutional racism within Australia, grounded in the country's settler-colonial structure, has sidelined Indigenous interests in public policymaking since federation. In an attempt to redress this, the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) was endorsed by the Australian government in 2009. UNDRIP is an authoritative international standard that could inform the ways that governments engage with Indigenous peoples and protect their rights. This paper introduces Indigenist Critical Policy Analysis (ICPA). While mainstream policy evaluation assesses whether policies and processes have met the governments stated objectives, ICPA assesses whether they uphold or violate Indigenous rights. ICPA involves reviewing policy documents against the key principles and specific Articles of UNDRIP. Presenting a worked example of ICPA, the NSW Regional Health Strategic Plan 2022–2032 is assessed against the five phases: (1) Orientation; (2) Close examination; (3) Determination; (4) Strengthening practice; and (5) Indigenous final word. This analysis finds that the Strategic Plan is poorly aligned with UNDRIP. Specifically, there is little evidence that Indigenous values influenced or held any authority in the process. ICPA offers a practical approach to analysing policy for compatibility with Indigenous rights under international law that could be used by Indigenous organisations and policymakers.","PeriodicalId":46787,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Social Issues","volume":"59 4","pages":"824-843"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ajs4.350","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141713528","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Acceptability of corporal punishment and use of different parenting practices across high-income countries 体罚的可接受性以及高收入国家采用不同育儿方法的情况

IF 2 2区社会学

Australian Journal of Social Issues Pub Date : 2024-05-28 DOI: 10.1002/ajs4.340

Carolina Gonzalez, Alina Morawska, Daryl J. Higgins, Divna M. Haslam

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Guest editors' introduction to special issue on corporal punishment of children in Australia 澳大利亚儿童体罚问题特刊特邀编辑导言

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Australian Journal of Social Issues Pub Date : 2024-05-04 DOI: 10.1002/ajs4.337

Carys Chainey, Sarah Whittle

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Linguistic diversity and emergency health alerts: A systematic critical review 语言多样性与紧急健康警报：系统性批判审查

IF 2 2区社会学

Australian Journal of Social Issues Pub Date : 2024-04-22 DOI: 10.1002/ajs4.328

Raelene Wilding, Natalie Araujo, Jessica Velásquez Urribarrí, Tonya Stebbins, Linda Whitby, Emma Koster

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High stress, high demand and high pressure: Experiences of social work and human services agencies during Melbourne's COVID-19 lockdowns 高压力、高需求和高压：墨尔本 COVID-19 封锁期间社会工作和人类服务机构的经历

IF 2 2区社会学

Australian Journal of Social Issues Pub Date : 2024-04-21 DOI: 10.1002/ajs4.325

Betty Haralambous, Ronnie Egan, Patrick O'Keeffe, Sobika Baskarathas, Emily Heales, Caroline Jerono, Scott Thompson

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Health selection into employment in a family health and time use context 家庭健康和时间使用背景下的就业健康选择

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Australian Journal of Social Issues Pub Date : 2024-04-04 DOI: 10.1002/ajs4.334

Tinh Doan, Liana Leach, Yixuan Zhao, Lyndall Strazdins

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Working toward reunification in New South Wales: Professional perspectives on navigating complex systems 在新南威尔士努力实现团聚：驾驭复杂系统的专业视角

IF 2 2区社会学

Australian Journal of Social Issues Pub Date : 2024-04-02 DOI: 10.1002/ajs4.333

Susan Collings, Meredith McLaine, Sarah Ciftci, Betty Luu

{"title":"Working toward reunification in New South Wales: Professional perspectives on navigating complex systems","authors":"Susan Collings, Meredith McLaine, Sarah Ciftci, Betty Luu","doi":"10.1002/ajs4.333","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ajs4.333","url":null,"abstract":"Achieving timely “permanency” for children after statutory child removal has become a key policy driver internationally. In New South Wales, child protection reforms include prioritising reunification; introducing time frames for resolution of legal proceedings; and outsourcing a substantial proportion of casework to the non-government sector. In assessing the viability of reunification, courts place responsibility for behaviour change on parents and obscure the role of systems in supporting these changes. Professionals, as actors within a complex system, have an insider perspective on factors that influence reunification. A qualitative study was undertaken to elicit the perspectives of professionals working with parents involved in care proceedings. A total of 29 caseworkers and lawyers took part in focus groups. Complexity theory was used as an interpretive framework, and thematic analysis was completed. Themes about barriers to reunification exposed the unintended consequences of change in a complex adaptive system. Far from making reunification more achievable by streamlining the legal process, changes introduced impediments in the form of role, goal and process confusion and low levels of professional confidence in their capacity to help parents and achieve predictable legal outcomes. These results strengthen calls for a different approach to confront system-induced barriers. Embedding interagency collaboration, challenging risk narratives about parents and offering them dedicated services are areas that demand urgent attention in order to ensure no child, whose safety and best interests could be met by reunification, remains in care.","PeriodicalId":46787,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Social Issues","volume":"59 3","pages":"752-772"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ajs4.333","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142435148","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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On (not) being literate enough: The literacy experiences and literacy programme needs of people experiencing homelessness or who are at risk of homelessness 关于（不够）识字：无家可归者或面临无家可归风险者的扫盲经历和扫盲计划需求

IF 2 2区社会学

Australian Journal of Social Issues Pub Date : 2024-03-26 DOI: 10.1002/ajs4.324

Benjamin Hanckel, Alan Morris, Keiko Yasukawa

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