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The Australian Community Psychologist


The Australian Community Psychologist [formerly Network] is the College's refereed journal. It is published twice a year.

Issues

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Editorial Board

Editor: 

Lauren Breen
Social Justice Research Centre, Edith Cowan University                  Email: l.breen@ecu.edu.au
Production Editor:

Anne Sibbel
Reflective Practice                                                                        Email: asibbel@westnet.com.au 
Associate Editors

Meg Smith
Social Justice and Social Change, University of Western Sydney 

Carol Tutchener
St Kilda Youth Service

Tahereh Ziaian
School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of South Australia

 

 

 

 

 

 



 
  
  

 

Call for Reviewers  

If you are interested in reviewing manuscripts for The Australian Community Psychologist, please email Lauren at l.breen@ecu.edu.au so that your name can be added to our Register of Reviewers.

 

Call for Papers 1

THE AUSTRALIAN COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGIST, Vol. 22, Issue 1.

Special Issue on Psychology & Poverty Reduction

Editors: David Fryer (Charles Sturt University) and Cathy McCormack

The first issue of 2010 will be a special issue devoted to community critical psychology approaches to poverty reduction. Contributions by: people with first hand experience of poverty; poverty activists; members of organisations committed to poverty reduction; as well as papers by academics and researchers, are invited. Contributions which contribute, from a community critical standpoint, towards the development and implementation of practically effective, politically engaged, ideologically progressive reduction or prevention of poverty or which critique the role of acritical psychology and the psy industry in poverty construction and maintenance are especially welcome. Authors from anywhere in the world are invited to contribute but especially those writing from communities impoverished and immiserated by colonisation and globalisation. Innovative modes of communication using a variety of forms of text are welcome. Electronic submission as an email attachment in Microsoft Word is preferred but those without - or with only restricted access to - the means to do this (word processor, internet access etc.) are invited to discuss other arrangements (the submission of hand written manuscripts etc). Those for whom writing in English is problematic are invited to negotiate submission arrangements which would not disadvantage them.

This Special Issue of The Australian Community Psychologist will be one of a large number of Special Issues of Journals around the world which will collectively constitute a 'Global Special Issue on Psychology & Poverty Reduction'. The deadline for submissions is 15 January 2010. It is anticipated the issue will be published in May 2010.

Early discussion of possible contributions with the Guest Editor of this Special Issue, David Fryer, is encouraged by emailing him at dafryer@csu.edu.au or writing to him at: Community Critical Psychology, School of Social Sciences and Liberal Studies, Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, NSW 2795 Australia or telephoning him on (02) 6338 4450.

  

Call for Papers 2

THE AUSTRALIAN COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGIST, Vol. 22, Issue 2.

General Issue with Special Section on Papers from the 11th Trans-Tasman Community Psychology Conference

Editor: Lauren Breen, PhD (Edith Cowan University).

The second issue of 2010 will be a general issue with a special section devoted to presenting research, articles and reflections from the 11th Trans-Tasman Community Psychology Conference held recently in Fremantle, Western Australia. Manuscripts may be of a theoretical or empirical focus and may be drawn from research projects or reflections on practice issues.

The issue will be published in November, 2010.

Review Process

All submitted manuscripts will be blind-reviewed by two reviewers. Reviewers will be selected on their ability to critically engage with the material presented in the manuscript.

Submission of Manuscripts

Manuscripts should conform to the requirements of the APA 5th edition. Previous issues of the ACP may be viewed below. 

Electronic Submission to Lauren Breen

Email to l.breen@ecu.edu.au as an email attachment in Microsoft Word is preferred.

The deadline for submissions is 31 July, 2010.

For further information please email Lauren.

 

Editorial information

 

Current Issue

Volume 21 No.2 December 2009
Contents

Special Section: Fly-in/Fly-out

Articles

Book Review

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Past Issues

Volume 21 No.1 June 2009

Contents

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Volume 20 No. 2 December 2008 

Contents 

Book Reviews

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Volume 20 No. 1 June 2008 

Contents 

Special Edition Papers

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Volume 19 No. 2 December 2007 

Contents 

Papers

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Volume 19 No 1 May 2007
Contents
Special Edition Papers
Book Review
  • Qualitative Psychology: Introducing Radical Research, by Ian Parker.
    Reviewed by David Fryer, Adele Laing and Rachael Fox
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Volume 18 No 3 December 2006

Contents

  • Editorial: Heather Gridley

Special Edition Papers

  • Less talking’, more walkin’: Community psychology in practice 
    Abstracts from the Tenth Trans-Tasman Conference in Community Psychology

  • Journeys with young adult mental health consumers: A narrative research project
    Hilary Lapsley, Heather Barnett and Shona Clarke

  • What can self-help support groups offer young people who experience mental health issues?f
    Ann Dadich

  • Walking together: Facilitating participation of disabled people on voluntary committees
    Rosemary Pynor

  • The Personal Support Programme: ‘Where we walk the walk’
    Gerda Alberts Muller and Celeste Galton

  • Working in partnership with Indigenous communities: A pilot program
    Shelley O'Keefe and Sheree Freeburn

  • Knowing where you are walking? The benefits and hazards of using theoretical roadmaps to guide practice
    Grace Pretty

  • There is nothing so practical as … : Building myths in community psychology
    Brian Bishop and Alison Browne

  • Iatrogenesis, community psychology and natural resource management
    Alison Browne and Brian Bishop

  • The use of psychological theories of development and adjustment in the broader culture to support the political agenda: A critical view
    Jennifer Sharples

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Volume 18 No. 2 August 2006

Contents

  • Editorial: Dawn Darlaston-Jones & Lynne Cohen

Papers

  • Listening with the third ear and other expertises’: A case analysis of social work discourse in the context of the multidisciplinary palliative care team. Colleen Fisher, Andrew Guilfoyle, & Moira O’Connor

  • Understanding of persons in community psychology: A grounded holism? Brian Bishop, Karen Johnson, & Alison Browne

  • Towards a culturally appropriate mental health research process for Indigenous Australians. Brian Bishop, David Vicary, Henry Andrews, & Glen Pearson

  • Media framing of dissent: The case of initial anti-nuclear protests following the Three Mile Island accident. Holly Angelique, & Ken Cunningham

  • In search of community in Western Australia: A qualitative study of adults’ conceptualisations of their communities. Andria Green, Lynne Cohen, & Julie Ann Pooley

  • Lessons drawn from the Enhancing relationships in school communities project. Eleanor H. Wertheim, Elizabeth Freeman, Margot Trinder, & Ann Sanson

Book Reviews

  • Rob Riley: An Aboriginal Leader’s Quest for Justice Author: Quentin Beresford. Neil Drew

  • Promoting Wellbeing: Linking Personal, Organizational and Community Change. Authors: Isaac and Ora Prilleltensky. Katie Thomas

Insight

  • How irresistible is the seagull imperative?: Countering the ‘dead hand of academe’. Brian Bishop
  • Preparation, Submission and Publication of Manuscripts

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  • Volume 18 No. 1 April 2006

The first issue of the Australian Community psychologist is a special issue which considers how psychologists can and should work for and with Indigenous Australians.

The journal includes five papers from two symposia of the 2005 APS. The journal represents a revival of interest, enthusiasm and activism within psychology for the long term challenge of developing more culturally inclusive, respectful and competent psychology. The papers explore the discomfort that learning and developing and change can provoke.

Contents

  • Editorial: From Network to The Australian Community Psychologist: A new name, a new look, and new
    directions. Dawn Darlaston-Jones & Lynne Cohen

Articles

  • Talking about sharing - Ongoing conversations about how psychology can and should work for and with Indigenous Australia. Colleen Turner

  • Strengths and challenges: Working towards family well-being in Tasmania. Marlene Burchill

  • Turning Indigenous Secondary Students' Educational Disadvantage Around: How Psychologists can Begin to Make a Real Difference. Rhonda Craven

  • Benchmarking the teaching of Australian Indigenous content in undergraduate psychology. Rob Ranzjin, Keith McConnochie, Andy Nolan & Wendy Nolan

  • Discomfort: The university student and Indigenous peoples. Rebecca Gerrett-Magee

  • "I'm White! Oh I See!" An international student perspective on National Curriculum Guidelines for Indigenous issues in psychology. Harriet Radermacher

Insight

  • The Seagull Imperative. Neil Drew

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Psychological sense of community and its relevance to wellbeing and every day life in Australia

A discussion paper written by:

Grace Pretty, PhD, The University of Southern Queensland
Brian Bishop, PhD, Curtin University
Adrian Fisher PhD, Christopher Sonn, PhD, Victoria University

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