Dr Myf Maple -
Areas of Teaching and Researh Interests
Teaching Areas
- Social Work
- Mental Health Promotion
- Prevention and Early Intervention
- Trauma Counselling
Research Interests
Currently supervising Higher Degree Research students in the areas of:
Myfanwy is currently supervising eleven PhD students in areas related to her own research, including suicide within families, missing people, posttraumatic growth, experiences in counselling, supervision of counsellors and social workers, and the use of ICT in supervision. She specialises in supervising research using narrative inquiry methodology.
Myfanwy has successfully supervised to completion, with her first PhD student, Anne Poelina, graduating in April 2009. Dr Poelina’s research used an innovative community development model working within her own Indigenous community in the remote North West of Australia.
Research interests:
- Traumatic loss and grief
- Suicide (prevention, intervention and postvention)
- Mental health and illness