Tsantefski, Menka
Position: Lecturer
Phone: +61 3 8344 9423
Email: menkat@unimelb.edu.au
BA (UNE) Dip Ed (Melb) BSW (Hons) (Melb)
Researcher profile
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Subjects taught:
196311 Social Work Practice with Families
196212 Social Work Practice and Diversity
196756 Working with Families
196767 Child and Family Social Work
Research Interests: Child and family welfare; in-home visitor programs; problematic substance use and parenting, child health and wellbeing.
Publications:
Tsantefski, M., Schilders, R. & Gruenert, S. (2007). Building bridges for children and parents in drug treatment services. Borders and Bridges. The Second National Australian College for Child and Family Protection Practitioners Conference Proceedings.
Ashley, D.M., Enderby, K.E., Jackson, A.C., Miller, J., O’Toole, M., Tokatlian, N., Tsantefski, M., Khaw, S.L. & Thomas, S.A. (2007). The impact of childhood brain tumours on families: A longitudinal study. Neuro-oncology, 9 (2).
Love, V. & Tsantefski, M. (2006). Psychosocial issues for substance-dependent pregnant women and parents of neonates. Background Papers to the National Clinical Guidelines for the Management of Drug Use During Pregnancy, Birth and the Early Developmental Years of the Newborn. NSW Department of Health, Sydney.
Gruenert, S., Ratnam, S. & Tsantefski, M. (2006). Identifying children’s needs when parents access drug treatment: The utility of a brief screening measure. Journal of Social Work Practice in the Addictions, 6 (1/2).
Gruenert, S., Ratnam, S. & Tsantefski, M. (2004). The Nobody’s Clients’ Project: Identifying and Addressing the Needs of Children with Substance Dependent Parents. Odyssey Institute of Studies, Odyssey House Victoria.
Gruenert, S., Ratnam, S. & Tsantefski, M. (2004). Nobody’s Clients: Children with drug or alcohol-dependent parents. Of Substance, 2 (2).
Jackson, A.C., Tsantefski, M., Goodman, H., Johnson, B. & Rosenfeld, J. (2003). ‘The Psychosocial Impacts on Families of Low-Incidence, Complex Conditions in Children: The Case of Craniopharyngioma’, Social Work and Health Care, 38 (1).
Conference, seminar and training presentations
Australian Winter School, 20th Annual Conference, The Way Forward, 3.7.2007. The window of opportunity: Child protection and obstetric services in the assessment of risk and provision of support to substance-dependent women and their infants.
Australian College for Child and Family Protection Practitioners National Conference: Borders and Bridges 22.5.2007. Building bridges for children and parents in drug treatment.
Australian Winter School, 20th Annual Conference, The Way Forward, 3.7.2007. Research with special needs populations: Children.
Australian Winter 19th Winter School: Research, Policy and Practice 5.6.2006. Therapeutic Groups for Children.
Queen Elizabeth Centre, 4th Biennial International Conference, Early Childhood: Evidence into Practice 22.11.2006. Holding the Mother Holding the Baby.
Family Alcohol and Drug Network (FADNET), Forgotten Families Conference, 20.4.2005. Talking to the Kids: What children know about their parents’ drug problems.
The Queen Elizabeth Centre, The Critical Early Childhood Years: Rethinking Current Interventions and Strategies 2.10.2004. Working with Substance Using Parents.
Turning Point Alcohol and Drug Centre, Alcohol and Drug Issues, Seminar Series, 8.8.2003 ‘Parental Alcohol and Drug Use: Keeping the Kids in Mind’
Kids in Care, START Conference, Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Creating new possibilities 18.6.2003. ‘The Nobody’s Client’s Project: Examining and addressing the needs of children whose parents are undergoing treatment for their drug misuse’.
Women’s Alcohol and Drug Service (Women’s ADS) Training, Royal Women’s Hospital, ‘A Critical Review of the Literature on Pregnancy, Parenting and Substance Use’, 11.10.2002; and ‘Risk Assessment: Getting off to a Good Start, Phase 1 Data’, 21.6.2005
Intensive Family Preservation Conference, Coolum, Queensland, 29.7.2000 ‘The Use of Peer Reviews in a Families First Program’.