School of Social Work and Social Policy

Mark Furlong, Ph.D.

		Senior Lecturer Year Coordinator, BSW 4
		Room:	513
		Building:	Health Sciences 2
		Phone:	(03) 9479 2384
		Email:	m.furlong@latrobe.edu.au
		Subject/s Coordinated:	SWP31IFG (Social Work with Individuals, Families & Groups A) SWP4DIV (Diversity in Social Work Practice)
		What's new Field work undertaken with mental health case managers and private psychotherapists over the last years has concentrated my concern that these practitioners may be de-empathising the importance of their clients’ intimate network (see Furlong, 2008). In order to further investigate this phenomenon, I intend to make this matter my key research focus in 2008/9. 2008: Advocacy for the introduction of assessible Indigenous content in Undergraduate programs. 2007: Plenary Address Australian Family Therapy Conference, Hobart 2006:La Trobe University, Faculty of Health Sciences Citations for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning

Qualifications 

BA, BSW, MSW,( University of Melbourne), PhD (Deakin)

Research Interests

(1)Intimate relationships and the process of Individualization; Diversity and professional practice; (2)Relationship between structural and poststructural explanations; casework theory and practice.

Recent Publications

Furlong, M. 2008. Captured by the Game? Might a focus on the ‘therapeutic relationship’ diminish the attention we give to the client’s intimate network? The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, in press.

Furlong, M. 2007. The politics of the pronoun, Arena Magazine, in press.

Furlong, M. 2007.  Emphasising ‘the relational self’ as a goal in casework, Practice Reflections, in press.

Furlong, M. 2007. The homeless person as neo-liberal outcaste: Policing the ever-stricter insider/outsider divide, Parity, 20(10): 25-28.

Furlong, M. and Mansell-Less, V. 2007. Not one of us is without bias: Identifying and challenging racism and homophobia, Advances in Social Work Education, 8(1): 38-54.

Furlong, M. and Mansell-Less, V. 2006. Who, and what, is odd here?: De-naturalizing student experiences of ‘the other’. International Journal of Diversity in Organizations, Communities and nations, 5(6): 147-156.

Furlong, M. 2006. Just keep walking, Arena 81: 47-50

Furlong, M. 2006. Working assumptions, Parity, 19(4): 5-7

Furlong, M. and Ata, A. 2006. Observing different faiths, learning about ourselves: Practice with inter-married Moslems and Christians, Australian Social Work, 59(3): 247-261.

Ata, A. and Furlong, M. 2005. Researching Moslem-Christian marriages: Extrapolating from mixed-faith couples towards the practice of Convivencia, The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, 26(4): 200-209.

Furlong, M. 2004. Who is ‘in’ and who is ‘other-ed?’, Parity, Exclusion / Inclusion (special refereed edition), 18(1): 16-20.

Furlong, M. 2003. Critiquing the goal of autonomy: Towards strengthening the ‘relational self’ and the quality of belonging in casework practice, The European Journal of Social Work, 6 (1): 5-19.

Furlong, M. 2003. Observing the rites of autonomy, distancing the prospects for the spiritual, The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, 24 (4): 199-204.

Furlong, M. 2003. Self-determination and a critical perspective in casework: Promoting a balance between interdependence and autonomy, Qualitative Social Work, 2 (2), p. 177-196.

 

 

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