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by Fiona Oates (Author)
Working with at risk children and their families is trauma-laden in nature, making exposure to occupational trauma a professional inevitability.
Author Biography
Fiona Oates, PhD, is a social work-trained practitioner, consultant, researcher and educator with more than 20 years of experience working with vulnerable children and their families. Dr Oates has a strong interest in supporting the professional development and wellbeing needs of practitioners working in trauma-laden environments with an emphasis on child protection. Dr Oates has developed a model of support that is trauma-informed and practitioner-centered: the TISS model. The TISS model acknowledges the challenging occupational environment that practitioners who support vulnerable children work in and has context-specific strategies embedded within to effectively support them. Dr Oates is based in Far North Queensland, Australia.
