Rebecca Gray
A broadly trained research practitioner, my research has focused on client perceptions of counselling and therapeutic services. This has led to work about marginalised and disenfranchised client communites, and a preferece for qualitative and sensitive research models.
Originally an English Literature graduate (BA Hons), I specialised in Literary Theory (University of Salford UK) and then Critical Theory (Masters at University of Nottingham UK). I trained as a counsellor and group worker when I moved to Australia, in 2001, and due to my professional experiences at a Women's Dual Diagnosis AOD Residential Rehab, I undertook a PhD on shame and stigma at the Centre for Social Research in Health (UNSW). While at the centre, I assisted on qualitative health projects, including Hep C risk management and Aboriginal Patterns of Health Care in New South Wales. Currently the Senior Manager of Research at Relationships Australia (NSW), I now focus on research based evaluations which address domestic violence, client engagement, and the social impact of clinical work. I was made an honorary associate of the School of Psychology at the University of Sydney in 2014, and the University of Technology, Sydney in 2015. I help supervise doctoral students undertaking research modules in individual, couple and family therapy.
Supervisors: Christy Newman, kylie valentine, and Robert Reynolds
Address: rebeccagrayresearch@gmail.com
rebeccag@ransw.org.au
Originally an English Literature graduate (BA Hons), I specialised in Literary Theory (University of Salford UK) and then Critical Theory (Masters at University of Nottingham UK). I trained as a counsellor and group worker when I moved to Australia, in 2001, and due to my professional experiences at a Women's Dual Diagnosis AOD Residential Rehab, I undertook a PhD on shame and stigma at the Centre for Social Research in Health (UNSW). While at the centre, I assisted on qualitative health projects, including Hep C risk management and Aboriginal Patterns of Health Care in New South Wales. Currently the Senior Manager of Research at Relationships Australia (NSW), I now focus on research based evaluations which address domestic violence, client engagement, and the social impact of clinical work. I was made an honorary associate of the School of Psychology at the University of Sydney in 2014, and the University of Technology, Sydney in 2015. I help supervise doctoral students undertaking research modules in individual, couple and family therapy.
Supervisors: Christy Newman, kylie valentine, and Robert Reynolds
Address: rebeccagrayresearch@gmail.com
rebeccag@ransw.org.au
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indicated the complex nature of change within ongoing relationship dynamics, particularly the interplay between client motivation and their partner’s new found knowledge about relationships gained from victim/survivor groups. This increased awareness had the tendency to reduce women’s
tolerance of their partners’ behaviour, and their expectations about their ongoing relationships. This article contributes to what is known about service responses to domestic violence, through the qualitative accounts of women.
and programme development in the area of care and treatment, particularly relating to new HCV treatments.
Method. In-depth interviews were conducted with 39 people identifying as Aboriginal Australians and living with HCV in New South Wales.
Results. Participants’ experiences were characterised by a lack of detailed or appropriate information provided at diagnosis, high levels of stigma associated with HCV and low overall knowledge of HCV as reported for themselves and their
communities. Despite poor diagnosis experiences, participants had undertaken changes to their lifestyle, especially in relation to alcohol use, in order to promote liver health. Concerns about treatment side effects and efficacy impacted participants’ decisions to undertake treatment. Eleven participants had undertaken HCV treatment in a variety of
care models with a peer worker and in prison.
Conclusions. The similarities between concerns and experiences of Aboriginal people and other populations living with HCV do not suggest that services and strategies to
engage these populations should also be the same. These results suggest that further engagement of the primary care sector in HCV care is important as well as increasing
Aboriginal community knowledge of HCV. A variety of service models should be available to meet individuals’ preferences, including those offered within Aboriginal community controlled health services emphasising holistic notions of health, and supported by information and communication programmes using principles of health literacy relevant to Aboriginal people.
group program offered at Relationships Australia NSW, and consider the arising issues and dilemmas for both parents
and group workers. Developed to address the particular needs of parents whose children have been taken into care, the group creates an environment of acceptance and support. This opens up possibilities for parents to consider issues of grief, stigma and trauma, as well as to develop skills in communication, assertiveness and emotional regulation.
children served as a motivation to stop using violence and to develop alternative ways of relating to all family members. The paper concludes by discussing the potential of men’s
relationships with their children as powerful contexts, or points of leverage, through which the impact of their violent behaviour can be realised and confronted. By realising the impact that violent behaviour can have on children’s wellbeing and fathers’ interpersonal relationships with them, it is argued that intervention programmes can support men to develop more appropriate ways of relating to their children, and thus safeguard children from potential long-term consequences of domestic abuse.
and the general community in terms of gender equity beliefs, self-esteem, personal mastery, and psychological distress. These findings not only provide valuable information for the provision of intervention services but also form a basis that future research may build on in evaluating the effectiveness of
such programs.
indicated the complex nature of change within ongoing relationship dynamics, particularly the interplay between client motivation and their partner’s new found knowledge about relationships gained from victim/survivor groups. This increased awareness had the tendency to reduce women’s
tolerance of their partners’ behaviour, and their expectations about their ongoing relationships. This article contributes to what is known about service responses to domestic violence, through the qualitative accounts of women.
and programme development in the area of care and treatment, particularly relating to new HCV treatments.
Method. In-depth interviews were conducted with 39 people identifying as Aboriginal Australians and living with HCV in New South Wales.
Results. Participants’ experiences were characterised by a lack of detailed or appropriate information provided at diagnosis, high levels of stigma associated with HCV and low overall knowledge of HCV as reported for themselves and their
communities. Despite poor diagnosis experiences, participants had undertaken changes to their lifestyle, especially in relation to alcohol use, in order to promote liver health. Concerns about treatment side effects and efficacy impacted participants’ decisions to undertake treatment. Eleven participants had undertaken HCV treatment in a variety of
care models with a peer worker and in prison.
Conclusions. The similarities between concerns and experiences of Aboriginal people and other populations living with HCV do not suggest that services and strategies to
engage these populations should also be the same. These results suggest that further engagement of the primary care sector in HCV care is important as well as increasing
Aboriginal community knowledge of HCV. A variety of service models should be available to meet individuals’ preferences, including those offered within Aboriginal community controlled health services emphasising holistic notions of health, and supported by information and communication programmes using principles of health literacy relevant to Aboriginal people.
group program offered at Relationships Australia NSW, and consider the arising issues and dilemmas for both parents
and group workers. Developed to address the particular needs of parents whose children have been taken into care, the group creates an environment of acceptance and support. This opens up possibilities for parents to consider issues of grief, stigma and trauma, as well as to develop skills in communication, assertiveness and emotional regulation.
children served as a motivation to stop using violence and to develop alternative ways of relating to all family members. The paper concludes by discussing the potential of men’s
relationships with their children as powerful contexts, or points of leverage, through which the impact of their violent behaviour can be realised and confronted. By realising the impact that violent behaviour can have on children’s wellbeing and fathers’ interpersonal relationships with them, it is argued that intervention programmes can support men to develop more appropriate ways of relating to their children, and thus safeguard children from potential long-term consequences of domestic abuse.
and the general community in terms of gender equity beliefs, self-esteem, personal mastery, and psychological distress. These findings not only provide valuable information for the provision of intervention services but also form a basis that future research may build on in evaluating the effectiveness of
such programs.