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Positive Psychology and Seafarers' Wellbeing

open access: yes, 2023
The maritime profession can be psychologically challenging for individuals. Some of the compelling factors are isolation and loneliness, workplace bullying, staying away from the family, fear of losing their job, lack of sleep, and fatigue.
Bulut, İrem   +2 more
core  

Immigration detention centers as torturing environments: Ethical reckonings, radical refusals, and implications for a psychology of resistance

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper examines psychologists' ethical dilemmas in immigration detention centers. Using critical psychology, border, and detention scholarship, it highlights psychologists' historical complicity in state violence, from the U.S. Enhanced Interrogation Program to current border regimes.
Francesca Esposito   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Enchanting, Evoking, and Affecting: The Invisible Work of Technology Implementation in Homecare

open access: yesNordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2019
New technologies are implemented in health care with the promises of replacing care work, but implementing technology into care also requires a lot of work.
Marie Ertner
doaj   +1 more source

Participatory Policy Development: Reflections on Designing the Strong Roots for Our Futures Program in Victoria

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this paper, we trace the journey to create the Strong Roots for our Futures Program, a government program to resource and support Traditional Owners to undertake a range of activities in areas where no state recognition existed. We provide a background to state recognition in Victoria before considering the program design, leading to an ...
Nell Reidy   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Legislation for Providing Animal Access in Australian Residential Aged Care: It's Not a Zoo

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Providing meaningful animal contact to residential aged care facility (RACF) residents is problematic due to a lack of animal policies and National Guidelines. This paper examines how Australian Legislation could influence access to animal contact in RACFs and aims to answer the question, ‘Could current Legislation facilitate the development ...
Wendy Newton   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sitting in Many Camps—Innovative Approaches and Methods for First Nations‐Led Research Into Indigenous Peacebuilding

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 2021, a desktop review was conducted of published references to First Nations peoples' approaches to conflict and its management in Australia (Project Stage One), culminating in a report published in 2024. This article focuses on Project Stage Two, a complex, innovative research undertaking building on the findings of Stage One, and being ...
Helen Bishop   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Without a Safety Net: Precarization Among Young Danish Employees

open access: yesNordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2017
Precarisation’ is one of the concepts that has become important in efforts to explain how neoliberal politics and changed economic conditions produce new forms of marginalization and increased insecurity.
Mette Lykke Nielsen   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

‘Hurry Up and Get Me out of Here’: The Experience of People Under 65 Years (Still) Stuck in Aged Care

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Following the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety, the Australian Government set a target for no‐one under 65 years of age to be living in residential aged care (RAC) by 2025. The numbers of young people in residential aged care (YPIRAC) have significantly declined since the start of the targets.
Elroy Dearn   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Counter-cultural and new age capitalist ideas: wellbeing and the contemporary workplace [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
PhDThis thesis examines the concept of wellbeing at work. It outlines a new type of organisation, that uses intellectual, immaterial and communicative labour power in order to provide a work ethic for both the production and consumption of their ...
Kunter, Aylin
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The Politics of Framing the Student Problem: Inquiries Into Australian Civics Education, 2006–2024

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recurring debates about civics, the kinds of history that should, and should not, be taught in school, and ‘standards debates’ about the ‘basics’ typically follow on the heels of recurring moral panics about the ‘declining’ state of ‘our’ education system.
Patrick O'Keeffe   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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