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Dr Zita Weber

BSocStud(Hons)(Sydney), PhD(Sydney)

Honorary Lecturer, Social Work and Policy Studies

Email:

Phone: +61 2 9351 6896

Fax: +61 2 9351 3783

Building.Room: A35.734

Professional biography

Zita Weber was a social work practitioner for twelve years in various health and welfare settings before entering academia. From 1986 to 1989 Zita was consultant to and social work practitioner in the then Community Medicine General Practice Unit of The University of Sydney. Zita co-ordinated and taught in the Counselling unit of study of the Reproductive Health Sciences course within the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Sydney from 1996 to 2000. In 2003, Zita was granted a Domus Hungarica Scientiarum et Artium scholarship by the Hungarian government to conduct research into community-based mental health services in Budapest.


Current research students

Project title Degree Research student
Constructing an understanding of loss: Parents perspectives following the death of a baby. PhD Joanne Clarke

Selected publications

Books

  • Fawcett (Hanlon), B, Nicholson, S, Weber, Z. (2010). Mental Health: The International Landscape: Challenges and Change. Basingstoke/Melbourne: Palgrave.
  • O'Hara, A, Weber, Z. (2006). Skills for human service practice: Working with individuals, groups and communities. Melbourne: Oxford University Press.

Book chapters

  • Weber, Z. (2008). Out of the asylum: from restraints to freedom?. In Barbara Fawcett and Fran Waugh (Eds.), Addressing Violence, Abuse and Oppression: Debates and Challenges (pp. 132–146), New York London: Routledge.

Journal articles

  • Weber, Z, Rowling, L, Scanlon, L. (2007). "It's like...a confronting issue": Life changing narratives of young people. Qualitative Health Research, 17(7), 945–953.
  • Weber, Z, Bugarszki, Z. (2007). Some reflections on social workers' perspectives on mental health in two cities- Sydney, Australia and Budapest, Hungary. International Social work, 50(2), 145–155.
  • Scanlon, L, Rowling, L, Weber, Z. (2007). 'You don't have like an identity... you are just lost in a crowd': Forming a Student Identity in the First-year Transition to University. Journal of Youth Studies, 10(2), 223–241.
  • Rowling, L, Weber, Z, Scanlon, L. (2005). Transitions and Loss: Illuminating Parameters of Young Adults' Mental Health. Australian Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 15(2), 168–181.
  • Weber, Z. (2005). Working towards culturally sensitive ethical practice in a multicultural society. Journal of Practice Teaching in Health & Social Work, 5(3), 40–54.
  • Weber, Z, McCarthy, M. (2005). When bodies need voices: Sharing stories of survival. Affilia-Journal of Women and Social Work , 20(3), 368–372.
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