For Margarita Frederico, AM the core of social work is its drive for social justice and its respect for human rights; and its richness comes from the way it is constantly evolving.  Social work has taken her from seminars with Anna Freud, to anti-Vietnam war protests; from The Royal Children’s Hospital to Myanmar; from childhood trauma to environmental rights.  Through a lifetime of change she has held onto the values, the rigour and the knowledge at the core of social work.

SHOWNOTES

A more detailed version of Margarita’s story was published in Social Work Focus, Autumn 2021

Take Two, Berry Street

https://scholars.latrobe.edu.au/mmfrederico

Margarita’s writing:

Margarita Frederico, Maureen Long, Nadine Cameron, Leadership in Child and Family Practice, Routledge, United kingdom, 2018

Margarita Frederico, Maureen Long, Janelle Young, Educating Social Workers for Leadership in a Highly Differentiated Society, International Journal of Innovation, Creativity and Change, Vol 3 issue 4, pp61-72,  2018

Evaluations of therapeutic foster care programs:

Margarita Frederico, Maureen Long, Patricia McNamara , Lynne McPherson, Richard Rose, Improving Outcomes For Children In Out-Of-Home Care: The role of therapeutic foster care, Child and Family Social Work, Vol 22 Issue 2, 2016, pp1064-1074

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/cfs.12326

Margarita Frederico, Annette Jackson, Carlina black, Ric Pawsey, Allison Cox, Take Two- Implementing A Therapeutic Service for Children who have Experienced Abuse and Neglect: Beyond Evidence Informed Practice, Child Abuse Review, Volume 28, Issue 3, 2019, pp225-239

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/car.2563

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

The AASW respectfully acknowledges the past and present traditional owners and on-going custodians of the lands on which this podcast was recorded.  We pay our respects to their Elders past and present, their ancestors and families, and to the Elders of other communities who may be listening.