Ms Maureen MacGinley

Ms Maureen MacGinley

Lecturer

DSW (current candidate), UNSW Sydney

MCSW (with Excellence)  Master Counselling Social Work , UNSW Sydney

BSW , UNSW Sydney

Arts, Design & Architecture (ADA)
School of Social Sciences

Maureen MacGinley is a lecturer in social work and a doctoral candidate. Maureen has extensive experience in working therapeutically alongside survivors of interpersonal violence and child abuse, especially adult and child sexual abuse. She also has extensive experience in working therapeutically with people experiencing a broad range of adversity and psychosocial developmental challenges. Maureen has worked for around 30 years in the field providing counselling, consultation, management and education.  She is an experienced educator in social work, counselling, therapy, trauma informed and trauma-focused practice. She is committed to the intersections of practice and research.

Current research interests focuses on shame following childhood abuse. 

Location
134 Morven Brown Building
  • Journal articles | 2024
    Burke F; Higgins M; MacGinley M, 2024, '“I’ll do it on my own, but I’m never alone”[1 p. 402]: lived experience and practitioner perspectives of autonomy in longstanding and severe eating disorder treatment and recovery–a rapid evidence review', Journal of Eating Disorders, 12, pp. 208, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40337-024-01164-z
    Journal articles | 2022
    Nugus P; Travaglia J; MacGinley M; Colliver D; Mazaniello-Chezol M; Claudio F; Lewis LD, 2022, 'Conceptual foundations of organizational structure: re-structuring of women's health services', Journal of Health Organization and Management, 36, pp. 332 - 350, http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/JHOM-09-2021-0364
    Journal articles | 2019
    MacGinley M; Breckenridge J; Mowll J, 2019, 'A scoping review of adult survivors’ experiences of shame following sexual abuse in childhood', Health and Social Care in the Community, 27, pp. 1135 - 1146, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/hsc.12771

Maureen's current doctoral project explores the experiences of shame for adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse.

Goal

To enhance institutional, community and therapeutic responses to survivors of childhood sexual abuse by using grounded theory to investigate the self reported lived experience of shame following childhood sexual abuse.

To contribute to understandings about shame experiences and responses

I engage collaboratively with counselling, advocacy and support agencies and practitioners who work together with survivors of violence, abuse and neglect, their families and friends, to challenge the psychological, structural and relational harms caused by violence. 

 

My Research Supervision

 

 

My Teaching

I teach across the Bachelor of Social Work (Hons) and  the Masters of Counselling Social Work programs.