In this episode, Maegan and I discuss her work as a perinatal social worker providing services to pregnant women receiving care through a general obstetrics clinic and a hospital Women and Newborn Drug and Alcohol Service. Maegan enrolled in a PhD at UWA in 2020 where she will use qualitative methods to conceptualise the phenomenon of hospital-based infant removals by child protection grounded in the perspectives of the practitioners involved. She has a strong interest in research which focuses on interdisciplinary knowing and practice that can be applied to improving outcomes for vulnerable and marginalised consumers of maternity health services.

Links to resources mentioned in this week’s episode:

* The Patient Assisted Travel Scheme – http://www.wacountry.health.wa.gov.au/index.php?id=pats

* Ronald McDonald House Charities - https://www.rmhc.org.au/

* Centre for Asylum Seekers, Refugees and Detainees - https://www.carad.org.au/

* Cancer Council WA palliative care information - https://www.cancerwa.asn.au/patients/coping-with-cancer/advanced-cancer/palliative-care/

* The Royal Women’s Hospital in Melbourne - https://www.thewomens.org.au/patients-visitors/covid-19-advice-and-updates/covid-19-advice-for-pregnant-women

* AASW Health-Based Social Work - https://www.aasw.asn.au/document/item/8306

* Australian Department of Health, Family and Domestic Violence in Pregnancy - https://www.health.gov.au/resources/pregnancy-care-guidelines/part-e-social-and-emotional-screening/family-violence

* Australia’s National Research Organisation for Women’s Safety - https://www.anrows.org.au/

* USA National Association of Perinatal Social Workers - https://www.napsw.org/

This episode's transcript can be viewed here:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xMpM1j0pgm7Eg-3EsXn02U-UqFaA-qxX/view?usp=sharing

Thanks to Kevin Macleod of incompetech.com for our theme music.