Qualifications:
BA (UWA), BSW (UWA)
Profile:I work as a Clinical Social Worker with the Department for Community Development (DCD), on the Psychology Assessment and Treatment Services (PATS) team. My work involves responding to families where children and young people have suffered abuse or neglect, assisting them to reduce or overcome the impact of these experiences, and where possible, to develop and demonstrate sufficient signs of responsibility to warrant either the preservation of families; or if children are already in out-of-home care, their return home. Prior to working in PATS, I worked as a Team Leader (a management position) in DCD, and relationship counsellor with Relationships Australia in Darwin.
Research Interests:
I am working on my PhD part-time, exploring the effects of using social constructionist ideas in a statutory child protection agency. Areas of interest include: helping people tell stories about their lives that make them stronger; exploring the impact of social context on people's lives; the ritualistic and social processes used by people use to make sense of life experience; researching and documenting responses to human problems that are just and effective; exploring ways of enabling people to resolve issues for themselves; and archiving stories of well lived lives.
Conference Papers: Menagé, J-P., Muirhead, J., & van Eigen, A., 1992, "Connecting the Dots: Drawing Therapeutic Conversations", Proceedings of the Australian and New Zealand Family Therapy Conference, July, Melbourne. Menagé, J-P, & Muirhead, J., 1993, "Meta-Questions: Questions about our Questioning of men", Proceedings of the Marriage Guidance Australia Conference, MGA., Canberra. Menagé, J-P., 1993, "Meta-Questions: Questions about my Questioning of Clients", Proceedings of the Australian Association of Marriage and Family Counsellors Conference, AAMFC, Sydney. Publications: Menagé, J-P., 2003, Book review of Critical Theory (2003), Austalian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy. Menagé, J-P., 2000, Book review of Family Staging Single Session Therapy (1999), Austalian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, Vol 21, No 3. Menagé, J-P., 1997, Political Correctness and Practice Effectiveness: Working with Perpetrators of Family Violence in Relationships, Austalian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, Vol. 18, No.3.
Menagé, J-P., 1997, Book review of Wileman & Wileman (1997) How to Stop Domestic Violence: A Victim’s Guide, Austalian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, Vol. 18, No.3.
Menagé, J-P., 1991, "The Relationship Dance", A Review of two books: The Dance of Intimacy, and The Dance of Anger, by H.G. Lerner, NTCGA Journal, July, Darwin. Affiliations:
Accredited member of the Australian Association of Social Workers
Member Australian Association of Relationship Counsellors |
