Journal article
Working Metaphors: Cross-Sector Collaboration between Domestic Violence and Substance Use Services
V Callaly, M Kertesz, AM Laslett, J Davidson, C Humphreys
Health and Social Care in the Community | WILEY | Published : 2024
DOI: 10.1155/2024/8000663
Abstract
Collaboration between services addressing domestic violence and substance use presents scope for enhancement. This study presents the first stage of an Australian action research project that aimed to investigate cross-sector collaboration between domestic violence and substance use services. The study employed purposive sampling for data collection, with the primary author conducting semistructured interviews with 26 senior policy workers, practitioners, and managers about their previous experiences in promoting collaboration between these two sectors. Employing metaphor analysis as a heuristic tool, the authors identified the metaphorical concepts that interviewees used to frame their unde..
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Funding Acknowledgements
This work was supported by the Australian Research Council (LP200200847). Laslett is funded by a National Health and Medical Research Council Investigator Grant (Leadership, Level 2, #2016706) and a Victorian Near-Miss Award administered by Veski for the Victorian Health and Medical Research Workforce Project on behalf of the Victorian Government and the Association of Australian Medical Research Institutes with funding provided by the Victorian Department of Jobs, Precincts and Regions. Open-access publishing was facilitated by the University of Melbourne, as part of the Wiley-the University of Melbourne agreement via the Council of Australian University Librarians.