Associate Professor Fiona McDermott

Associate Professor
Joint Appointment with Southern Health

fiona.mcdermott@med.monash.edu.au

Monash details

Telephone: +61 3 9903 1709

Facsimile: +61 3 9903 1141

Southern Health details

Telephone: +61 3 9594 2290

Facsimile: +61 3 9594 6630

Profile

Associate Professor Fiona McDermott (BA Dip Soc Studs., M. Urban Planning, PhD: Melb) has a joint appointment with the Department of Social Work, Monash University and Southern Health. Her role is to support and build research capacity within the social work staff at Southern Health and to contribute to teaching and research in the Department. She has a particular interest in teaching and supervising higher degree research, undertaking research in health and mental health, and working with groups in therapeutic settings. She has published two books – Inside Groupwork: a guide to reflective practice (Allen & Unwin 2002), and (with Nadine Cameron) Social Work and the body (Palgrave 2007). Her journal publications include: McDermott, Hill,  & Morgan,  ‘Death & the dynamics of group life’, Journal of Group Analysis Vol. 42 No.2 156-176 (2009);  O’Callaghan & McDermott  ‘Discourse analysis frames oncologic music therapy research findings’ Arts in Psychotherapy, Vol. 34, Issue 5, January, 398-408 (2007); McDermott  ‘Researching groupwork: outsider and insider perspectives’, Groupwork, Vol. 15 (1), 91-109 (2005); Fossey, E., Harvey, C., McDermott, F., Davidson, L.  ‘Understanding and evaluating qualitative research’, ANZ Journal of Psychiatry, 36: 717-732  (2002)