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Reducing wasteful household behaviours : contributions from psychology and implications for intervention design
No full textSustainable lives in sustainable communities?: living and working in ten Australian suburbs: full report
No full text'Act them into a new way of thinking': Multiple stakeholder perspectives on developing international and cultural leadership (ICL) through experiential learning
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Medical law in the South Pacific
No full textThis book was originally published as a monograph in the International Encyclopaedia of Laws : Medical Law
The effects of graded motor imagery and its components on chronic pain: A systematic review and meta-analysis
No full textPerspective This systematic review synthesizes the evidence for GMI and its constituent components on chronic pain. This review may assist clinicians in making evidence-based decisions on managing patients with chronic pain conditions.
Connecting with students from new and emerging communities in social work education
No full textStudents from new and emerging communities enrolled in university can face a number of barriers to learning in the context of Australian higher education. It is important for social work educators to understand the challenges faced by these students as they work to improve their education and employment opportunities with the ultimate goal of helping their communities, and the Australian society.In the study reported here, semi-structured interviews were conducted in 2011-2012 with seven African students. Key findings from the study included that students were committed to improving their education for the betterment of their communities; their prior educational experiences did not always equip them for tertiary learning; computer use and online technology were particular challenges; and the formal supports provided by the university were not well accessed. However, informal peer learning groups were useful. The findings suggest that social and academic support and learning spaces provided by tertiary education institutions could be more inclusive of students from new and emerging communities. This aim of this article is to discuss the findings in order to increase understanding and improve teaching practices when working with students from new and emerging communities
Interdisciplinarity and Undergraduate Psychology Education
No full textThis work identifies the human service sector as an important and growing destination for psychology graduates. It further identifies a number of key themes which flow from that observation and which are important to configuring psychology education in a way which takes account of emerging trends. The major theme identified in the research is the importance of breadth. The theme of the importance of breadth takes two related and repeated forms. The first is that graduates need to be thinkers rather than doers. The second is that employers in the human services stress the need for broad-based thinking and analytical skills to reflect social and contextual awareness of therapeutic situations and human service programmes and interventions. Stakeholders broadly commented that graduates seeking employment in the human service sector need upskilling in terms of a contextual awareness of the ‘real world’. One idea which emerged in this research is that real-world multidisciplinarity is best underpinned by an interdisciplinary approach to teaching and learning.