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Dr Julie Clark is an Australian academic who completed her PhD on the Experience of siblings of long-term missing people in 2006. She is an experienced social worker who graduated in 1982 and has worked in statutory and non-statutory child protection, welfare and advocacy roles; as a hospital and community health social worker and in complaints management roles. She has research interests in missing people, supervision, ethics and child protection.
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Abstract This paper focuses on a part of a larger piece of exploratory, qualitative research. A... more Abstract
This paper focuses on a part of a larger piece of exploratory, qualitative research. A brief literature review precedes verbatim quotations from accounts of siblings’ experiences of police. The accounts were gained by in-depth interviews with adult siblings of nine long-term missing people. Participant stories reveal the quality of the investigation and the manner of service as influencing their emotional well-being in the short and longer term. Findings cannot be extrapolated but indicate potential areas for future research. The need for support from human services workers to complement the role of police is recognised as is the important role of non-government support and advocacy services.
Little is known about the experience of family and friends when a young adult goes missing, less... more Little is known about the experience of family and friends when a
young adult goes missing, less is known about how siblings make
sense of the experience. Police assistance to locate the missing person
may be sought but there is little recognition of going missing or
missingness as a social issue, and there is little or no adequate social
response to the needs of those left behind. This paper links knowledge
of siblings, loss and grief to an understanding of this phenomenon. It
presents the methodology and findings of an exploratory, qualitative
study into the experiences of nine adult siblings of long-term missing
people in Australia and presents the themes drawn from their
accounts. The themes are briefly elaborated using direct quotations
from participants in the study and represented in a diagram. The
paper seeks to develop greater understanding of the inter-relationship
between missingness and other social issues, to give voice to the
views of participants and to encourage practitioners to engage more
purposefully in work with family and friends affected by this issue.
Some implications for social work practice are presented
Grief Matters: The Australian Journal of Grief …, Jan 1, 2007
When an adult sibling becomes a long-term missing person the experience is confusing and highly d... more When an adult sibling becomes a long-term missing person the experience is confusing and highly distressing for those left behind. This paper is drawn from a larger study that considered the experience of adult siblings of long-term missing people. It briefly explains the study, ...
Youth Studies …, Jan 1, 1998
The Kids Help Line has been providing a national telephone counselling service for Australian chi... more The Kids Help Line has been providing a national telephone counselling service for Australian children since 1993. It is therefore able to provide valuable demographic, geographic and temporal data on suicide-related calls to the service. Kids Help Line believes that the data highlights: the importance of families to children and young people; the need to individualise young people; the importance of promoting help-seeking behaviours; the need to enhance coping skills; and the need to more adequately resource the community's capacity to respond to child protection issues.
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Abstract This paper focuses on a part of a larger piece of exploratory, qualitative research. A... more Abstract
This paper focuses on a part of a larger piece of exploratory, qualitative research. A brief literature review precedes verbatim quotations from accounts of siblings’ experiences of police. The accounts were gained by in-depth interviews with adult siblings of nine long-term missing people. Participant stories reveal the quality of the investigation and the manner of service as influencing their emotional well-being in the short and longer term. Findings cannot be extrapolated but indicate potential areas for future research. The need for support from human services workers to complement the role of police is recognised as is the important role of non-government support and advocacy services.
Little is known about the experience of family and friends when a young adult goes missing, less... more Little is known about the experience of family and friends when a
young adult goes missing, less is known about how siblings make
sense of the experience. Police assistance to locate the missing person
may be sought but there is little recognition of going missing or
missingness as a social issue, and there is little or no adequate social
response to the needs of those left behind. This paper links knowledge
of siblings, loss and grief to an understanding of this phenomenon. It
presents the methodology and findings of an exploratory, qualitative
study into the experiences of nine adult siblings of long-term missing
people in Australia and presents the themes drawn from their
accounts. The themes are briefly elaborated using direct quotations
from participants in the study and represented in a diagram. The
paper seeks to develop greater understanding of the inter-relationship
between missingness and other social issues, to give voice to the
views of participants and to encourage practitioners to engage more
purposefully in work with family and friends affected by this issue.
Some implications for social work practice are presented
Grief Matters: The Australian Journal of Grief …, Jan 1, 2007
When an adult sibling becomes a long-term missing person the experience is confusing and highly d... more When an adult sibling becomes a long-term missing person the experience is confusing and highly distressing for those left behind. This paper is drawn from a larger study that considered the experience of adult siblings of long-term missing people. It briefly explains the study, ...
Youth Studies …, Jan 1, 1998
The Kids Help Line has been providing a national telephone counselling service for Australian chi... more The Kids Help Line has been providing a national telephone counselling service for Australian children since 1993. It is therefore able to provide valuable demographic, geographic and temporal data on suicide-related calls to the service. Kids Help Line believes that the data highlights: the importance of families to children and young people; the need to individualise young people; the importance of promoting help-seeking behaviours; the need to enhance coping skills; and the need to more adequately resource the community's capacity to respond to child protection issues.