Social Work Discoveries

A podcast on social work, research, and making the world a better place.Go to swdiscoveries.com for more info.

Social Work Discoveries is a education podcast hosted by Ben Joseph, with 10 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Ben Joseph hosts Social Work Discoveries, a education show with 10 episodes published.

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  Episode 30 – A conversation with Rahim Thawer, author of ‘The Mental Health Guide for Cis and Trans Queer Guys’

  May 5, 202557 minS0

  <p>Welcome back to the Social Work Discoveries Podcast.</p> <p>In Episode 30, I have the pleasure of introducing to you the wonderful social worker and writer Rahim Thawer. Rahim is a psychotherapist, clinical supervisor, facilitator, and public speaker. He works as a lecturer, writer, and community organiser. Rahim loves all things mental health and is particularly interested in examining innovation in queer relationships. Whether in a classroom or therapy consulting room, Rahim strives to operate from a harm-reduction, sex-positive, anti-oppressive, and trauma-informed approach.  </p> <p>Rahim’s latest work is a self-help guidebook, coming out in June 2025, called The Ment...

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  Episode 29 – From social work placement to clinical practice to realist research: A conversation with Associate Professor Jacqui Cameron

  Sep 10, 202446 minS0

  <p>Hi Listeners,</p> <p>Welcome back to the Social Work Discoveries podcast. In this episode, I’m joined by none other than Associate Professor Dr Jacqui Cameron from the University of Wollongong. </p> <p>Jacqui is a social worker with over twenty years of experience in practice, research, evaluation, and training in a variety of settings including alcohol and drug, mental health, and domestic violence. She is Co-Editor for Advances in Dual Diagnosis (ADD), an international journal that promotes submissions on co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders from academics, practitioners, and educationalists, as well as from lived experience of...

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  Episode 28 – Forensic Social Work: A specialised social work practice – in conversation with Dimi Lattas

  Jul 1, 202435 minS0

  <p>Hi Listeners,</p> <p>Welcome back to the Social Work Discoveries Podcast.</p> <p>Today’s guest is Dimi Lattas from the University of the Sunshine Coast, in Queensland Australia. Dimi is a qualified social worker and family therapist. Her research focuses on forensic social work and, specifically, forensic social work education. Dimi is specifically interested in forensic social work pedagogy and developing educational practices that support student learning and professional expectations. This includes curriculum design, simulation, and technology.</p> <p>Dimi is also a board member for It’s Sunny Somewhere. A charity that uses a holistic outdoor acti...

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  Episode 26 – ‘Default Depression: How we now interpret human distress as mental illness’ with Anthony Smith.

  Feb 13, 202446 minS0

  <p>Hello Listeners,</p> <p>Welcome to the Social Work Discoveries podcast. I’m your host Ben Joseph and I’m so happy to have you with me today.</p> <p>The rise of the biomedical approach to treatment of depression and anxiety among other mental health issues for Australians has been swift, expansive, and for many, completely all-consuming. It is the dominant lens through which we as a society believe mental illness can be administered and recovery be found, but is it the only answer? In today’s Social Work Discoveries episode, I speak with a man on a missio...

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  Episode 25 – Decolonising and re-imagining the boundaries of social work research with Dr Sharlotte Tusasiirwe

  Nov 14, 202357 minS0

  <p>Hello Social Work Discoveries Listeners,</p> <p>I’m so pleased to be able to introduce Dr Sharlotte Tusasiirwe, author of Decolonising & Re-imagining Social Work in Africa: Alternative Epistemologies and Practice Models available for purchase through Routledge, and co-author of Re-imagining Social Work: Towards Creative Practice, with Professor Jim Ife and Dr Rimple Mehta. Their book is now available through Cambridge University Press. </p> <p>Dr Tusasiirwe is a lecturer in social work in the School of Social Sciences, Western Sydney University. After completing a bachelor’s degree in social work at Makerere University in Uganda and a master’s degre...

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