Experience
From 40 years
We can’t help others simply by focusing on their inner worlds; we need to appreciate the many ways people handle the challenges and resources of their interpersonal and physical environments, to enlarge people not reduce them to ‘problems to be fixed’. They’re people and citizens. In my work I like the ways that psychology and social work can enrich each other and the people being helped. For me, the Order of Australia award recognises that collaboration, especially in strengthening families.
Australian Association of Family Therapy
- Editor and Executive Director of Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, 1985-1996.
- Honorary Life Member.
- Founding Member, Family Therapy Association of New South Wales.
- Recipient, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy Award, 1998.
Australian Psychological Society
- Member, since 1979.
- Member, Child, Adolescent and Family Psychology Interest Group, current.
Australian Association of Social Workers
- Editor, Australian Social Work, 1973-1981.
- Served on the Federal Council of AASW and on the management committees for Qld and NSW
- Member, current.
Family Therapy Institute of Australia
- Co-Founder, Executive Director and teacher, 1981-1995.
Victorian Association of Family Therapists
- Life Member and Honorary Clinical Member.
Teaching
- Lecturer, School of Social Work, The University of New South Wales, 1971-1983.
- Visiting Fellow, Centro Milanese di Terapia della Famiglia (Milan Centre for Family Therapy), 1983.
- Visiting Fellow, Family Systems Program, Institute of Juvenile Research, University of Illinois, 1983.
- Visiting Staff Member, Family Institute, Cardiff, Wales, 1977-1978.
- Taught in scores of organisations throughout Australia
