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Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
Sawyer, A. (2009) ‘Mental health workers negotiating risk on the frontline’, Australian Social Work 62(4): 441-459.

Sawyer, A., Green, D., Moran, A. and Brett, J. (2009) ‘Should the nurse change the light globe? Human service professionals managing risk on the frontline’, Journal of Sociology 45(4): 1-21.

Sawyer, A. (2008) ‘Risk and new exclusions in community mental health practice’, Australian Social Work 61(4): 327-341.

Savy, P. and Sawyer, A. (2008) ‘Risk, suffering and competing narratives in the psychiatric assessment of an Iraqi refugee’, Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 32 (1): 84-101.

Green, D. and Sawyer, A. (2008) 'Risk, regulation, integration: Implications for governance in community service organisations, Just Policy 49: 13-22.

Sawyer, A. (2005) ‘From therapy to administration: deinstitutionalisation and the ascendancy of psychiatric “risk thinking”’, Health Sociology Review 14(3): 283-296.

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Book Chapters
Savy, P. and Sawyer, A. (2009) ‘Mental illness: understandings, experience and service provision’, in J. Germov (ed.) Second Opinion: An Introduction to Health Sociology, 4th edition, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, pp.269-287.

Sawyer, A. (2009) ‘Mental health’, in H. Cleak (ed.) Assessment and Report Writing in the Human Services, Melbourne: Cengage, pp.73-85.

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Conference Papers
(2009) Sawyer, A. and Green, D. ‘Risk management and individualised care in the community’, presented at The Annual National Conference of the Australian Sociological Association, Canberra, December 3.

(2008) Sawyer, A. 'Negotiating Risk on the Frontline: Community mental health workers' experiences of risk management policies', presented at The Annual National Conference of the Australian Sociological Association, Melbourne, December 4.

(2007) Sawyer, A., Green, D. and Moran, A., ‘Managing risk in Victorian community services: preliminary findings from discussions with chief executive officers’, TASA & SAANZ Joint Conference, Auckland, December 4.

(2006) Savy, P. and Sawyer, A. ‘Narrativity and clinical reasoning: a case study of the psychiatric assessment of an Iraqi refugee’, The Annual National Conference of the Australian Sociological Association, Perth, December 6.

(2005) Sawyer, A. ‘Breaking family patterns of the past: emotional literacy as a turning point in women’s “self-development” stories’, The Annual National Conference of the Australian Sociological Association, Hobart, December 8.

(2004) Sawyer, A. ‘Deinstitutionalisation and the conceptualisation of psychiatric “risk”: the perspective of a crisis team clinician’, presented at The Annual National Conference of the Australian Sociological Association, Beechworth (Victoria), December 8.

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