Planning and Support for People with Intellectual Disabilities
Issues for Case Managers and Other Professionals (pbk) Christine Bigby, Chris Fyffe and Elizabeth Ozanne (eds) UNSW Press 2007 Planning and Support for People with Intellectual Disabilities provides comprehensive information for any professional working with people with intellectual disabilities.
In illuminating the complexities, tensions and dilemmas practitioners must negotiate in their everyday practice, the book considers the three key dimensions that mediate outcomes for people with intellectual disabilities;
. The context of the broader social welfare system, . Program structure and . Practice - the processes used by practitioners.
Areas covered include inter-agency and cross-sector collaboration, balancing risk, rights and protection, listening and communication, aging, approaches to behaviour support and ethical decision making. The text is complemented by first-hand accounts of the case management experience from service users, parents, and case managers.
Dr Christine Bigby is a Reader and Associate Professor in the School of Social Work and Social Policy at La Trobe University.
Creative Spirits - Bark Painting in the Washkuk Hills of North New Guinea (hc) Ross Bowden Oceanic Art 2007
The art of painting on bark is found in many parts of the Pacific, including Papua New Guinea, the home of the Kwoma people who are the subject of this study. Following European contact at the end of the nineteenth centre, and the rapid social change this entailed, many New Guinea peoples gave up producing their distinctive styles of designs on bark, but in some of the more remote parts of this region the art form still flourishes.
This book documents the bark paintings of the Kwoma of the Sepik River region. It is the first full-length ethnographic analysis of this art form for any New Guinea society.
Dr Ross Bowen is a Visiting Research Fellow in the Art History Program at La Trobe University.
Robert Menzies' Forgotten People (2nd ed) (pbk) Judith Brett Melbourne University Publishing 2007 Winner of the 1993 Ernest Scott prize. Winner of the 1993 Victoria Premier's Prize for Australian Studies. Joint Winner of the 1993 NSW Premiers Prize for Non Fiction.
Judith Brett is Professor of Politics at La Trobe University.
The Existential Jesus (pbk) John Carroll Scribe 2007 Jesus is the man who made the West. What kind of man was he? Is he relevant to a modern world shaken by crises of meaning?
The churches have mainly projected him as Jesus the carer and comforter, Jesus meek and mild, friend of the weak. This is Jesus the Good Shepherd, who preaches on sin and forgiveness. He is Lord and Saviour.
But this church Jesus is not remotely like the existential he portrayed in the first and most potent telling of his life-story - that of Mark. Mark's Jesus is a lonely and restless, mysterious stranger. His mission is dark and obscure. Everything he tries fails. By the end there is no God, no loyal followers, just torture by crucifixion climaxing in a colossal death-scream. The story closes without a resurrection from the dead. There is just an empty tomb, and three women fleeing in terror.
The existential Jesus speaks today. He does not spout doctrine; has no interest in sin; his focus is not on some after-life. He gestures enigmatically from within his own grueling experience, inviting the reader to walk in his shoes. He singles out everybody's central question: "Who am I"" The truth lies within individual identity resounding in the depths of the inner self. The existential Jesus is the West's great teacher on the nature of being. This books tells his story and reveals what he had to say.
Dr John Carroll is a Reader in the Sociology and Anthropology Program at La Trobe University.
Agamemnon's Mask
Greek Tragedy and Beyond (hc) Terry Collits and Anjana Sharma (eds) Macmillan India Ltd 2007 This collection seeks to complement and stimulate the broad interest in tragedy demonstrated in university curricula around the world.
Contributors to this anthology seek to achieve two broad aims. The first is to increase respect for the complexity of the texts themselves as well as a detailed understanding of their original context; the second is to adopt the position of contemporary readers who bring a range of contemporary theoretical approaches to bear in their search for meaning in these classical works.
Terry Collits is Head of Chisholm College at La Trobe University and a Senior Research Fellow of the English Department at La Trobe University
A Loose Canon
Essays on History, Modernity and Tradition (pbk) Brian J Coman Connor Court Publishing 2007
In this collection of essays, Coman ranges over a vast tapestry of experiences from ferreting rabbits, to the pleasures of reading the Odyssey and listening to church bells. Religion, philosophy, modern music, Freddie Ayer's 'amorous dalliances', and Chinese ghost stories - it's all here in this eclectic compilation. This is an eminently readable collection, combining wit and serious reflection on the human condition. The essays will delight both the serious and the casual reader.
Dr Brian Coman is an Honorary Associate at La Trobe University.
The Australians
Insiders and Outsiders on the National Character Since 1770 (pbk) John Hirst Black Inc 2007 In The Australians, John Hirst gathers together the key assessments of the Australian national character of the past two hundred years and introduces and links them.
Contributors include Winston Churchill, Tim Flannery, Henry Lawson, Germaine Greer, Captain James Cook, Charles Dickens, Barry Humphries, H G Wells, Peter Cosgrove, Jackie Huggins and David Malouf.
Dr John Hirst is a Reader in History at La Trobe University.
The Lamb Enters the Dreaming Nathanael Pepper and the Ruptured World (pbk) Robert Kenny Scribe Publications 2007 The Lamb Enters the Dreaming traces the life of Nathanael Pepper of the Wotjobaluk people, who was born as the first pastoralists were driving cattle and sheep into Victoria's Wimmera region. In their wake came Christian missionaries, who were just as hostile to the settlers' violence s they were to the traditional beliefs of Aboriginal people. Nevertheless, Pepper converted to Christianity in 1860. The extraordinary story of Pepper's conversion, and his subsequent attempts to reconcile the apparently irreconcilable, reveals much about the deeper symbolic and moral forces at work in this collision of cultures.
Brilliantly original in conception, and written with a rare lucidity and lightness of touch, The Lamb Enters the Dreaming is a detailed and sensitive exploration of a life, a meditation on the matter of culture and conversion, and a major reappraisal of the relations between Aboriginal and European societies in the first decades of contact in southern Australia.
Robert Kenny has a PhD in history from La Trobe University where he is also an associate.
Public Health Practice in Australia (pbk) Vivian Lin, James Smith, Sally Fawkes Allen and Unwin 2007 Public Health Practice in Australia draws on current international and Australia research and is extensively illustrated with case studies and data. It not only examines the past and present but considers our common future by looking at the tools we have to understand long-term trends, alternative scenarios and the dynamics shaping the future. It is a valuable resource for students and professionals across the health sciences including public health, medicine, environmental health, health promotion, health information management and health administration.
Professor Vivian Lin is Professor of Public Health at La Trobe University and Chair of the Australian Network of Academic public Health Institutions (ANAPHI).
Sally Fawkes is Research Fellow in the Department of Public Health Practice at La Trobe University.
Micro-Clusters and Networks: the Growth of Tourism (hc) Ewen Michael Elsevier, Advances in Tourism Research, 2007
This book introduces a new approach to the analysis and management of growth in small tourism markets for regional and rural locations. It recognizes from the outset that the vast bulk of the tourism industry's product is delivered by small business enterprises and that many of these are located outside of metropolitan areas. Its central premise is that a myriad of small-scale clusters can provide an effective means to establish a local competitive advantage in tourism activities based on the resources of existing communities.
Dr Ewen Michael is a Senior Lecturer in the Dept of Sport Tourism and Hospitality at La Trobe University.
Critical Reflection in Health and Social Care (pbk) Sue White, Jan Fook and Fiona Gardner (eds) OpenUniversity Press 2007
The use of critical reflection in professional practice is becoming increasingly popular across the health professions as a way of ensuring ongoing scrutiny and improved concrete practice - skills transferable across a variety of settings in the health, social care and social work fields.
Critical Reflection in Health and Social Care reflects the transformative potential of critical reflection and provides practitioners, students, educators and researchers with the key concepts and methods necessary to improve practice through effective critical reflection.
Fiona Gardner works at the Centre for Professional Development, Faculty of Health Sciences at La Trobe University.
Dr Jan Fook was until recently Director of the Centre for Professional Development at La Trobe University.
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