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Digital futures in mind: Why lived experience collaboration must guide digital mental health technologies 心中的数字未来：为什么必须以生活体验合作指导数字心理健康技术？

Australian Journal of Social Issues Pub Date : 2024-07-15 DOI: 10.1002/ajs4.355

Kellie Gilbert, Ian Muchamore, Simon Katterl, Hayley Purdon, Andy Allen, Ingrid Ozols, Piers Gooding

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“You're on your own, kid”: A critical analysis of Australian universities' international student mental health strategies "你得靠自己了，孩子"：对澳大利亚大学留学生心理健康战略的批判性分析

Australian Journal of Social Issues Pub Date : 2024-07-02 DOI: 10.1002/ajs4.349

M. Peterie, G. Ramia, Alex Broom, Isabella Choi, Matthew Brett, Leah Williams Veazey

{"title":"“You're on your own, kid”: A critical analysis of Australian universities' international student mental health strategies","authors":"M. Peterie, G. Ramia, Alex Broom, Isabella Choi, Matthew Brett, Leah Williams Veazey","doi":"10.1002/ajs4.349","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ajs4.349","url":null,"abstract":"Mental ill‐health is a serious and growing problem among university students in Australia. Within this cohort, international students are particularly vulnerable. International students in Australia have fewer social rights than domestic students and are at elevated risk of social isolation, exploitation in employment, precarious housing, financial insecurity, and racism and discrimination. When mental health challenges arise, international students are also less likely than their domestic counterparts to access support services. Against the backdrop of this escalating problem, this article presents a critical analysis of Australian universities' policy approaches to international student mental health. We ask: (a) How many universities have such policies publicly available, and (b) how do these policies understand and seek to address the problem of international student distress? Drawing on a documentary analysis of publicly available university mental health strategies, we find that—in the comparatively rare cases where such documents exist—international students' mental ill‐health is generally framed in these documents as an individual concern, placing the onus on individual students to develop “resilience” and/or seek out help. Leveraging theoretical insights concerning the collective production of (mental) health and illness, we caution that this individualisation of student distress naturalises and depoliticises the logics of financial exploitation and neglect that contribute to many international students' mental health problems to begin with.","PeriodicalId":504799,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Social Issues","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141687216","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Addressing employment barriers for humanitarian migrants: Perspectives from settlement services 解决人道主义移民的就业障碍：安置服务机构的观点

Australian Journal of Social Issues Pub Date : 2024-07-02 DOI: 10.1002/ajs4.353

A. Renzaho, Kerry Woodward, Michael Polonsky, Julianne Abood, Julie Green

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The Aspire Social Impact Bond: How social impact bond financing can promote positive social and economic outcomes 卓望社会影响债券：社会影响债券融资如何促进积极的社会和经济成果

Australian Journal of Social Issues Pub Date : 2024-07-01 DOI: 10.1002/ajs4.354

V. Coram, Selina Tually, Leanne Lester, Michael Kyron, Paul R Flatau, Ian Goodwin‐Smith

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Varieties of digitalisation? A comparison of employment services digitalisation in the UK and Australia 数字化的多样性？英国和澳大利亚就业服务数字化比较

Australian Journal of Social Issues Pub Date : 2024-05-08 DOI: 10.1002/ajs4.339

Jo Ingold, Chris Forde, David Robertshaw

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Unburdening care: Exploring modes of care through post‐productivist thought and Australian parliamentary inquiry representations 解除护理负担：通过后生产主义思想和澳大利亚议会调查表述探索护理模式

Australian Journal of Social Issues Pub Date : 2024-05-06 DOI: 10.1002/ajs4.335

Chabel Khan

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How does the media represent institutional child sexual abuse within Jewish communities? A case study of the Malka Leifer court case 媒体如何报道犹太社区内对儿童的机构性虐待？Malka Leifer 法庭案件案例研究

Australian Journal of Social Issues Pub Date : 2024-02-15 DOI: 10.1002/ajs4.317

Philip Mendes, Marcia Pinskier, Susan Baidawi

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Mothers and sportsmen: The gendered and racialised nature of role model selection for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander youths 母亲与运动员：为土著和/或托雷斯海峡岛民青少年选择榜样的性别和种族性质

Australian Journal of Social Issues Pub Date : 2024-02-12 DOI: 10.1002/ajs4.311

M. Guerzoni, J. Prehn, Huw Peacock

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Positive behaviour support under the National Disability Insurance Scheme in Australia: Barriers, enablers and support needs from the perspective of practitioners 澳大利亚国家残疾保险计划下的积极行为支持：从从业人员的角度看障碍、促进因素和支持需求

Australian Journal of Social Issues Pub Date : 2024-02-06 DOI: 10.1002/ajs4.316

Alinka Fisher, Kymberly Louise, Katrina Reschke, Peter Kremer, Glenn Kelly

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