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Integrating social workers in Australian primary health care settings Open

Ines Zuchowski, Albert Kuruvila, Tarun Sen Gupta, Rebecca Lee · 2025

Purpose This study aims to explore the scope and practice of social workers in Australian general practice and evaluate the outcomes of social work practice in these settings. Design/methodology/approach Primary health care centres in Nort…

Professional Development Needs of Social Work Field Education Supervisors in Australia Open

Ines Zuchowski, Katheryn Margaret Pascoe · 2025

The Lived Experiences of Youth-Workers: Understanding Service-Delivery Practices Within Queensland Non-Government Residential Youth Care Organisations Open

Kassandra Wales, Ines Zuchowski, Jemma Hamley · 2025

Young people under the care of child protection agencies are at increased risk of entering the criminal justice system. Residential youth organisations support young people who are unable to reside with their families or in foster care. Yo…

Integrating Social Work in an Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Service Primary Health Care Setting: The First Three Months of Data Open

Ines Zuchowski, Erin Waters, Albert Kuruvila, Beverly Kuhn, Rebecca Lee · 2025

Background Social work within General Practice is an emerging contributor to primary healthcare aiming to address social determinants of health. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people experience higher rates of health inequity and ra…

Allied Health Student‐Led Clinics: An Opportunity for Workforce Development Open

Taegen Pascoe, Asmita Mudholkar, Stephanie Burke, Kehinde Obamiro, Ines Zuchowski · 2025

Objective The project evaluated multidisciplinary allied health student placements co‐located within a rural general practice clinic. Methods Occupational therapy, social work and speech pathology placement students under discipline‐specif…

Social Work Education: Developing Professional Identity and Readiness for Practice Open

Ines Zuchowski · 2024

Strategies for facilitating social work placements in general practice Open

Ines Zuchowski, Simoane McLennan, Tarun Sen Gupta, Rebecca Lee, Lawrie McArthur , et al. · 2023

Preparing key stakeholders, providing targeted supervision, longer appointments for social work students and involving all stakeholders are key strategies to successfully facilitate social work placements in general practice. Hosting socia…

A Systematic Review of Social Work in General Practice: Opportunities and Challenges Open

Ines Zuchowski, Simoane McLennan · 2023

The review outlined the benefits of social work practice in GP practices; however, these must be further evidenced. Funding for social workers in primary health care was identified as a challenge when it was lacking, and as an enabler when…

The Importance of Connection: A Quantitative Study of Students’Learning in Placements Completed Remotely from an Organisation Open

Ines Zuchowski, Helen Cleak, Grace Jefferson · 2023

This quantitative study surveyed eighty-two Australian social work students who completed their placement during COVID-19. The delivery of health and welfare services during the pandemic had a significant impact on field education with the…

Curriculum development for social work student placements in primary health care Open

Ines Zuchowski, Simoane McLennan, Kat Buchta, Katrina Cordes, Tarun Sen Gupta , et al. · 2023

This paper reports on the curriculum development for social work student placements in primary health care. Social work in General Practice [GP] is an emerging area for social work practice, able to fill a gap in primary health. The inclus…

Evaluation of Social Work Student Placements in General Practice Open

Ines Zuchowski, Simoane McLennan, Tarun Sen Gupta · 2023

Social work and social work student placements in general practice [GP] can contribute to wholistic healthcare. The overall aims of this research were to develop, implement and evaluate a field education placement curriculum for social wor…

Social work field education with external supervision Open

Ines Zuchowski · 2022

Field education is essential in preparing social work students for professional social work practice. Students complete placement in a human service organisation, during which their learning is guided and assessed, typically by an experien…

“We are not stray leaves blowing about in the wind”: exploring the impact of Family Wellbeing empowerment research, 1998–2021 Open

Nirukshi Perera, Komla Tsey, Marion Heyeres, Mary Whiteside, Leslie Baird , et al. · 2022

It’s up to you: The need for self-directed learning for social work students on placement during COVID-19 Open

Ines Zuchowski, Helen Cleak, Sandra Croaker, Jo-Bentley Davey · 2021

Summary COVID-19 in 2020 took social work programmes by surprise and for many students an e-placement was offered as the only alternative learning opportunity to complete their placement that year. In this article, we report on a mixed met…

“We Are Not Stray Leaves Blowing About In The Wind”: Summing Up The Impact of Family Wellbeing Empowerment Research, 1998-2021 Open

Nirukshi Perera, Komla Tsey, Marion Heyeres, Mary Whiteside, Leslie Baird , et al. · 2021

Background: An Aboriginal-developed empowerment and social and emotional wellbeing program, known as Family Wellbeing (FWB), has been found to strengthen the protective factors that help Indigenous Australians to deal with the devastating …

Using a community development approach to reimagine field education during Covid-19 Open

Jo-Bentley Davey, Helen Collingwood, Sandra Croaker, Melissa Grentell, Finola Rytkönen , et al. · 2021

This paper reports on an Australian online placement project that was put in place after face-to-face placements were stopped due to the Covid-19 pandemic in early 2020. James Cook University ( JCU) social work students were offered the op…

Open Access Publishing: A Key Enabler to Research Impact, Informed Practice and Social Justice Open

Susan Gair, Ines Zuchowski, Liz Beddoe · 2021

There is mounting pressure for university researchers to build stronger research partnerships with communities so research engagement and impact can be enacted and measured. At a perfunctory glance, the engagement and impact agenda would a…

Social work academic and industry partnerships: engagement and impact Open

Ines Zuchowski, Liz Beddoe, Susan Gair · 2021

This Editorial was written for the Advances in Social Work & Welfare Education Special Issue 22.2 on Social Work Academic and Industry Partnerships: Engagement and Impact.

Notunterkünfte in Australien Open

Malgorzata D. Michling, Ines Zuchowski, Debra Miles, Janusz Surżykiewicz · 2021

Soziale Arbeit, founded in 1951, is an independent academic journal which addresses developments in the context of social work. It is one of the most important publication media in its field and is read by teachers, students and researcher…

On a Wing and a Prayer! An Exploration of Students’ Experiences of External Supervision Open

Helen Cleak, Ines Zuchowski, Mark Cleaver · 2020

Field education is a core component of social work courses globally and has been recognised as providing significant learning opportunities to develop professional practice. Evidence highlights the strong correlation between student satisf…

Cultivating Practice-based Research: Confidence, Capacity and Capabilities in the Non-statutory Child Protection Sector Open

Ines Zuchowski, Susan Gair · 2020

Research-informed practice is important for quality outcomes for service users, service provision and for local communities. If social work and welfare workers incorporate research knowledge and skills into their practice, better outcomes …

Social work students’ feedback about students’ suitability for field education and the profession Open

Ines Zuchowski, Sally Watson, Tracey Dickinson, Nicole Thomas, Sandra Croaker · 2019

INTRODUCTION: Many students successfully complete placement, while, for a minority of students, placement may be a time when questions are asked about suitability for placement and professional practice.METHOD: Research undertaken with fin…

Grandparents battle to be key stakeholders in protecting grandchildren Open

Susan Gair, Ines Zuchowski · 2019

INTRODUCTION: Grandparents are increasingly involved in the care of grandchildren, including after child protection intervention.METHOD: A recent Australian qualitative research partnership explored how relationships between grandparents a…

Working collaboratively to highlight the voices of young people in Townsville Open

Sara O’Reilly, Lilli Braidwood, Cindy d’Emden, Susan Gair, Nikkola Savuro , et al. · 2019

Youth crime and crime prevention have been the focus of media attention and policy reforms in Australia. Recent inquiries, reports and reforms have brought about policy changes in the youth justice field, including engaging young people th…

Field education for international students in Australia: Preparing students and the sector Open

Sophie Diamandi, Cate Hudson, Ines Zuchowski · 2018

This paper presents a case study which explored strategies utilised by staff of the Masters of Social Work program at the University of South Australia to support some international students in meeting the requirements of their first field…

Exploring the perspectives of practitioners on the needs and experiences of young refugees settling in regional Australia Open

Jacek Zuchowski, Ines Zuchowski · 2018

Across the world large numbers of people are displaced every year and seek asylum in other countries. For example, in 2010 ‘…there were an estimated 43.7 million forcibly displaced people worldwide, including 15.4 million refugees, 837 500…

Students’ suitability for social work: Developing a framework for field education Open

Sandra Croaker, Tracey Dickinson, Sally Watson, Ines Zuchowski · 2017

Social work field education is a path of evaluating student suitability for the social work profession. This evaluation relies heavily on the field educator’s practice framework and interpretation of the professional standards of social wo…

Leading through collaboration: The national field education network Open

Wendy Rollins, Ronnie Egan, Ines Zuchowski, Mary Katherine Duncan, Phyllis Chee , et al. · 2017

Social work field education is under pressure across the globe, including in Australia. Current application of neo-liberal principles to education and human services policy and service delivery impact social work practice, social work educ…

International student exchange in Australian social work education Open

Nonie Harris, Debra Miles, Elise Howard, Ines Zuchowski, Julie King , et al. · 2017

International student exchange is pursued by Australian schools of social work as a strategy to engage with the internationalisation agenda set by government, universities, and the profession. However, little concrete information about the…

Reciprocity in international student exchange: Challenges posed by neo-colonialism and the dominance of the Western voice Open

Ines Zuchowski, Narayan Gopalkrishnan, Julie King, Abraham Francis · 2017

INTRODUCTION: Internationalisation of social work education is part of a rapidly growing international tertiary education sector; one that is actively being promoted by governments and universities to support student learning and engagemen…

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