Publications & Resources
Publications
My publications include 2 books, 50 journal articles in international peer reviewed journals, and 5 book chapters. Published in 2016 my recent book ‘Self-Help for Trauma Therapists: A Practitioner’s Guide, ‘intends to assist human service workers, such as those working as therapists, social workers and counsellors, to maintain their self-care and professional effectiveness when working in fields where stress and trauma play a key factor in their everyday working lives. Adopting a comprehensive, multi-layered approach to self-care, the book grounds its exploration of practice through researched accounts with experienced professionals. With discussions on risk and resilience, compassion fatigue and vicarious traumatisation, readers are introduced to the theories and practical application of developing a professional model for maintaining training wellbeing and self-care in their work.”
Here is the link to some of the background and story of how the book came to be:
Self-help for Trauma Therapists
To read more about the book, here are the links to the chapter abstracts and the reviews on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B01MSW9HM9
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Workshops & Webinars
Here is a full list of my publications:
Refereed Publications
Books
Pack, M. J. (2016). Self-Care for trauma therapists: A Practitioner’s Guide. Routledge, UK.
Pack, M. J. and Cargill, J. (Eds). (2015). Evidence Discovery and Assessment in Social Work Practice: A Practitioners’ Guide.PA, IGI Global.
Book Chapters
Pack, M. J. (2015). Preface. In M. Pack and J. Cargill (Eds). Evidence Discovery and Assessment in Social Work Practice: A Practitioners’ Guide. PA, IGI Global.
Pack, M. J. (2015). Navigating practice-informed evidence and evidence-based practice: Balancing competing claims to knowledge. In M. Pack and J. Cargill (Eds). Evidence Discovery and Assessment in Social Work Practice: A Practitioners’ Guide.. PA, IGI Global.
Pack, M. J. (2015). Picking up the pieces: Working with adult women sexual abuse survivors. In M. Pack and J. Cargill (Eds). Evidence Discovery and Assessment in Social Work Practice: A Practitioners’ Guide.PA, IGI Global.
Pack, M. J. (2015). Conclusion: Beyond binary oppositions in evidence-based practice in social work. In M. Pack and J. Cargill (Eds). Evidence Discovery and Assessment in Social Work Practice: A Practitioners’ Guide.PA, IGI Global.
Pack, M. (2009). Social work (adult). In K. Grimmer-Somers & G. Nehrenz (Eds.), Practical Tips in Finding the Evidence : An Allied Health Primer (pp. 176-199). Manila, Philippines: UST Publishing House.
Journal Articles
Bowers, E. & Pack, M. (2017). Designing and embedding authentic learning opportunities in a social work curriculum: Reflections and lessons learned. Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work 29(1), 99–110
Pack, M. J. (2015). Unsticking the stuckness: A qualitative study of the clinical supervisory needs of early career health social workers. The British Journal of Social Work, doi:org/10.1093/bjsw/bcu069
Pack, M. J. (2015). Learning to ‘think on our feet’: Producing a new digital resource for teaching child protection practice in Practice: Social Work in Action Journal. DOI:10.1080/09503153.2015.1087490
Pack, M. J. (2014). Northern Exposure: The curriculum developed in a Bachelor of Humanitarian and Community Studies programme, sited within a social work school, in the Northern Territory of Australia. Advances in Social Work and Welfare Education.16 (2),73-85.
Pack, M. J. (2014). Practice journeys: The use of online reflective journals in fieldwork. Reflective Practice, 15 (3),404-412.
Pack, M. (2014). Vicarious resilience: A multilayered model of stress and trauma. Affilia: Journal of Women & Social Work, 29(1), 18-29. doi: 10.1177/0886109913510088
Pack, M. J. (2014). The role of managers in critical incident stress management programmes: A qualitative study of New Zealand social workers. Journal of Social Work Practice, 28(1), 43-57. doi: 10.1080/02650533.2013.828279
Pack, M. (2013). Vicarious traumatisation and resilience: An ecological systems approach to sexual abuse counsellors' trauma and stress. Sexual Abuse in Australia and New Zealand, 5(2), 69-76.
Pack, M. (2013). What brings me here? Integrating evidence-based and critical-reflective approaches in social work education. Journal of Systemic Therapies, 32(4), 65-78. doi: 10.1521/jsyt.2013.32.4.65
Pack, M. J. (2013). Building safe communities: Teaching social work students about the importance of comprehensive strengths-based approaches of offender rehabilitation. Practice: Social Work in Action, 25(4), 221-231. doi: 10.1080/09503153.2013.829438
Pack, M. J. (2013). Critical incident stress management: A review of the literature with implications for social work. International Social Work, 56(5), 608-627. doi: 10.1177/0020872811435371
Pack, M. J. (2013). An evaluation of critical-reflection on service-users and their families' narratives as a teaching resource in a post-graduate allied mental health program: An integrative approach. Social Work in Mental Health, 11(2), 154-166. doi: 10.1080/15332985.2012.748003
Pack, M. J. (2013). A tale of two programmes: Developing communities of learning with practice partners in social work and humanitarian studies at Charles Darwin University, Northern Territory, Australia. Social Work Education, 32(8), 1011-1020. doi: 10.1080/02615479.2012.745846
Pack, M. (2012). Two sides to every story: a phenomenological exploration of the meanings of clinical supervision from supervisee and supervisor perspectives. Journal of Social Work Practice, 26(2), 163-179. doi: 10.1080/02650533.2011.611302
Pack, M. (2012). Vicarious traumatisation: An organisational perspective. Social Work Now: The Practice Journal of Child, Work & Family, 50, 14-23.
Pack, M. J. (2012). Critical incident stress debriefing: An exploratory study of social workers' preferred models of CISM and experiences of CISD in New Zealand. Social Work in Mental Health, 10(4), 273-293. doi: 10.1080/15332985.2012.657297
Nelson, K., Connor, M., Wensley, C., Moss, C., Pack, M., & Hussey, T. (2011). Review article: People who present on multiple occasions to emergency departments. Emergency Medicine Australasia: EMA, 23(5), 532-540. doi: 10.1111/j.1742-6723.2011.01449.x
Pack, M. (2011). Defining moments in practice. Clinical supervision as a method of promoting critical reflection in fieldwork: A qualitative inquiry. Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work Review, 23(4), 45-54.
Pack, M. (2011). The design and development of teaching resources for the purpose of demonstrating aspects of clinical supervision: Developing the on-line community of learners. Advances in Social Work and Welfare Education, 13(1), 78-88.
Pack, M. (2011). Discovering an integrated framework for practice: a qualitative investigation of theories used by social workers working as sexual abuse therapists. Journal of Social Work Practice, 25(1), 79-93. doi: 10.1080/02650533.2010.530646
Pack, M. (2011). More than you know: critically reflecting on learning experiences by attuning to the 'community of learners'. Reflective Practice, 12(1), 115-125. doi: 10.1080/14623943.2011.542080
Pack, M. (2010). Allies in learning: Critical-reflective practice on-line with allied mental health practitioners. Social Work Education, 29(1), 67-79. doi: 10.1080/02615470902810876
Pack, M. (2010). Career themes in the lives of sexual abuse counsellors. New Zealand Journal of Counselling, 30(2), 75-92.
Pack, M. (2010). Making the unseen seen through the use of multimedia approaches in counselling and social work education. Junctures: The Journal for Thematic Dialogue, 13, 69-75.
Pack, M. (2010). Transformation in progress: the effects of trauma on the significant others of sexual abuse therapists. Qualitative Social Work, 9(2), 249-265. doi: 10.1177/1473325009361008
Pack, M. (2010). Guest editorial for special issue on health and well-being. New Zealand Social Work Review (2010) 12(1).53-54
Pack, M. J. (2010). Te Kete [The Basket of Knowledge]: An action research project to evaluate the effectiveness of ‘Kaupapa Maori’ approaches to teaching and learning in undergraduate counselling and addictions education. He Kupu Whakataki: Journal of Best Practice in Applied and Maori/Indigenous Vocational Education, 2nd Edition, 31-40.
Pack, M. (2007). ‘The Concept of Hope in Gestalt Therapy: Its Usefulness for Ameliorating Vicarious Traumatisation’, Gestalt Journal of Australia and New Zealand, 3(2) 59-71
Pack, M. (2004). ‘Sexual Abuse Counsellors’ Responses to Stress and Trauma: A Social Work Perspective’ Journal of New Zealand Association of Counsellors, Te Ropu Kaiwhiriwhiri o Aotearoa, 25 (2) 2004 1-17.).
Pack, M. (2004) ‘Sexual Abuse Counsellors’ Responses to Stress and Trauma: A Social Work Perspective. ’Social Work Review, Journal of New Zealand Association of Social Workers, 16 (1) 19-25.
Pack, M. (2009). The body as a site of knowing: Sexual abuse counsellors' responses to traumatic disclosures. Women's Studies Journal, 23(2), 46-56.
Pack, M. (2009). Clinical supervision: An interdisciplinary review of literature with implications for reflective practice in social work. Reflective Pactice , 10(5), 657-668. doi: 10.1080/14623940903290729
Pack, M. (2009). Guest commentary. Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work Review, 21/22(4/1), 53-54.
Pack, M. (2009). Revisions to the therapeutic relationship: A qualitative inquiry into sexual abuse therapists' theories for practice as a mitigating factor in vicarious traumatisation. Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work Review, 21/22(4/1), 73-82.
Pack, M. (2009). Supervision as a liminal space: Towards a dialogic relationship. Gestalt Journal of Australia and New Zealand, 5(2), 60-78.
Pack, M. (2008). "Back from the edge of the world": Re-authoring a story of practice with stress and trauma using Gestalt theories and narrative approaches. Journal of Systemic Therapies, 27(3), 30-44. doi: 10.1521/jsyt.2008.27.3.30
Pack, M. (2008). An innovation in primary mental health services: The MidValley Well-being Service. Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work Review, 20(3), 25-33.
Pack, M. (2007). The concept of hope in gestalt therapy: Its usefulness for ameliorating vicarious traumatisation. Gestalt Journal of Australia and New Zealand, 3(2), 59-71.
Pack, M. (2007). Letters to the editor. Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work Review, 19(4), 52-54.
Pack, M. (2004). Sexual abuse counsellors' responses to stress and trauma: A social work perspective. Social Work Review: Journal of the New Zealand Association of Social Workers, 16(1), 19-25.
Pack, M. (1995). Counselling distance learners: An experiment at the Open Polytechnic of New Zealand. Social Work Review: Journal of the New Zealand Association of Social Workers, 7(2), 16-18.
Pack, M. (1989). ‘Doing Dirty Work ? Sponsors of Community Service’, Social Work Review, Journal of New Zealand Association of Social Workers, 2 (2-3) 8-11.
Conference Monographs/Proceedings
Pack, M. (2013, 4-6 June). The relationship in clinical supervision: Models preferred by allied mental health professionals who work with trauma disclosures. Paper presented at the Advances in Clinical Supervision: Innovation and Practice Conference, New South Wales Institute of Psychiatry, Australia.
Pack, M. (2013, 3-4 October). Teaching the role of discretion in child protection social work. Paper presented at the Australian Association of Social Work Educators (AASWE): Imagining Futures for Social Work Education and Research Conference, Curtin University, Australia.
Pack, M. (2012, 30-31 March). Northern Exposure: An evaluation of the teaching and learning approaches used in a humanitarian studies programme sited within a social work school at Charles Darwin University, in the Northern Territory of Australia. Paper presented at the Health Providers Conference, Alice Springs, Australia.
Pack, M. (2012, 11-13 April). A Tale of Two Programmes. Paper presented at the Shift Happens: Resilience, Relevance and Reform DEANZ Conference, Wellington, New Zealand.
Pack, M. J. (2008, 5-8 September). Allies in healing: clinical-reflective practice online with allied mental health practitioners. Paper presented at the 14th International Reflective Practice Conference, Rotorua, New Zealand.
Magazines and Periodical articles
The Spring 2016 issue of Social Work Focus, https://www.aasw.asn.au/publications/social-work-focus You can download the magazine from this web page as a PDF or as a flipbook. Here is a direct link to the article: http://socialworkfocus.realviewdigital.com/?iid=147001#folio=26
Team Research
STARs Project-allied health member of the team
National Pacific PHO Evaluation Health Services Research Unit, Victoria University of Wellington
OLT Research, Charles Darwin University, Northern Territory, Australia
Research Grants
2013 OLT Teaching Grant to develop multi-media teaching resources illustrating the use of discretion in child protection social work $50,000
2011 Tertiary Education Commission Grant, Weltec, NZ, $120,000
2011 School of Health Research Grant, Weltec, NZ $5,000
2011 School of Health Research Grant, Whitireia, NZ $5,000
2010 Faculty Research GrantVictoria University of Wellington $5,000
2009 Strategy to Advance Research Grant $60,000, Victoria University of Wellington
2009 New Researcher’s Grant, Victoria University of Wellington $5,000
2008 Teaching and Learning Research Grant, Victoria University of Wellington $5,000
Consultancies
2011 Invited educational consultant at Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Australia.
2011 Practice consultant to Richmond NZ
2011 Senior Research Fellow, Health Research Centre, Victoria University of Wellington
Recent Refereed Conference Proceedings
2015. October14-16.Building Confidence in Child Protection Social Work. Presentation at the Building Pathways Wananga. Tapu Te Rangi Marae, Island bay, Wellington New Zealand, October.
2015. June 4-6Building Confidence in Decision Making in Child Protection Social Work. Paper presented to Australasian Human Development Conference, Wellington, Victoria University of Wellington.
2014. .Learning to think on our feet: A new resource for teaching child protection social workers. Paper presented to The 2014 Joint World Conference on Social Work, Education and Social Development (SWSD 2014), Melbourne.
2013. Australian Association of Social Work Educators’ (AASWE) Imagining Futures for Social Work Education and Research Symposium Curtin University 3‐4 October 2013. ‘ Teaching the role of discretion in child protection social work’.
2013. Invited paper. The relationship in clinical supervision: Models preferred by health social workers who work with traumatic disclosures. Advances in Clinical Supervision: Innovation and practice. Conference Monograph New South Wales Institute of Psychiatry, June 4-6 Sydney, Australia.
2012. Northern Exposure: An evaluation of the teaching and learning approaches used in a humanitarian studies programme sited within a social work school at Charles Darwin University, in the Northern Territory of Australia. Health Providers Conference Presentation, Alice Springs, Australia. March 30-31.
2012 .A Tale of Two Programmes. Shift Happens: resilience, relevance and reform. DEANZ Wellington, New Zealand, 11-13 April.
2008 ‘Allies in Healing: Clinical-Reflective Practice On-line with Allied Mental Health Practitioners’ . 14th International Reflective Practice Conference Proceeding, Rotorua New Zealand, 5-8 September.