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Clinical social work practice, Counselling, wellbeing and community servicesBiography
Maureen MacGinley is a lecturer in social work and a doctoral candidate. Maureen has extensive experience in working therapeutically alongside survivors of interpersonal violence and child abuse, especially adult and child sexual abuse. She also has extensive experience in working therapeutically with people experiencing a broad range of adversity and psychosocial developmental challenges. Maureen has worked for around 30 years in the field...view more
Maureen MacGinley is a lecturer in social work and a doctoral candidate. Maureen has extensive experience in working therapeutically alongside survivors of interpersonal violence and child abuse, especially adult and child sexual abuse. She also has extensive experience in working therapeutically with people experiencing a broad range of adversity and psychosocial developmental challenges. Maureen has worked for around 30 years in the field providing counselling, consultation, management and education. She is an experienced educator in social work, counselling, therapy, trauma informed and trauma-focused practice. She is committed to the intersections of practice and research.
Current research interests focuses on shame following childhood abuse.
My Qualifications
DSW (current candidate), UNSW Sydney
MCSW (with Excellence) Master Counselling Social Work , UNSW Sydney
BSW , UNSW Sydney
My Research Activities
Maureen's current doctoral project explores the experiences of shame for adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse.
Goal
To enhance institutional, community and therapeutic responses to survivors of childhood sexual abuse by using grounded theory to investigate the self reported lived experience of shame following childhood sexual abuse.
To contribute to understandings about shame experiences and responses
My Engagement
I engage collaboratively with counselling, advocacy and support agencies and practitioners who work together with survivors of violence, abuse and neglect, their families and friends, to challenge the psychological, structural and relational harms caused by violence.
My Teaching
I teach across the Bachelor of Social Work (Hons) and the Masters of Counselling Social Work programs.
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ORCID as entered in ROS
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0862-6644