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It is great to announce that the Reflecting on your first job session that I organise and present for the Victorian branch of the AASW will be happening again in September. The session is aimed at 2012 social work graduates and other newer workers. We discuss some of the issues that can arise in adapting to working full time as a social work professional (successful inventions and learning, as well as managing stress, avoiding burnout, clearly establishing work/home boundaries and developing …
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I am pleased to announce that I have now joined the Australian Counselling Association (ACA) - as a registered supervisor through the ACA’s College of Supervision and also as a Level 4 counsellor. I have provided individual and group supervision to a whole range of professionals for over ten years now – social workers, counsellors, welfare workers, youth workers, needle syringe program workers and allied health staff to name a few. This new registration means that I can also provide …
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I’ve just booked into the National Rural and Remote Social Work conference which is being held at Inverloch in July. Having enjoyed the last one in 2011, I am really looking forward to this one. There are a few presentations on my own area – supervision, which I am very keen to attend. Two areas I have an interest in – the provision of supervision to allied health and non-clinical staff and the provision of clinical supervision via Skype or telephone, feature in a number of the concurrent …
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I am really pleased to be announcing that the AASW Victorian branch’s annual session for new social work graduates Finding your first job and thriving in it is available online for new graduates who can’t come to our live session in the Melbourne CBD.
It is available through the AASW website http://www.aasw.asn.au/whoweare/victorian/new-graduates
Rural and remote access to training is an on-going struggle. I regularly receive queries from people who can’t make it to the new …
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Clinical supervision, staff support and solid self-care routines are integral for all staff who work in the Alcohol and Other Drugs (AOD) service sector. This is true both for therapeutic staff and those in related frontline roles, such as needle syringe program (NSP) workers, allied health staff and receptionists.
Helping people can be stressful and leave workers feeling anxious or exhausted. In the AOD service sector, at any one time, a number of the clients will be in crisis, stressed, …
Lisa Derham
BA, BSW, AMHSW, Graduate Diploma in Family Therapy, MACA Level 4
