University College Plymouth St Mark & St John


Jo Trelfa
Job Title:
Senior Lecturer in Children, Young People & Communities
Faculty/Department:
Faculty of Education, Health and Welfare
Contact Number:
01752 636700 Ext: 4305
Email:
jtrelfa@marjon.ac.uk
Qualifications:

B.Ed Youth and Community Work (JNC) Hons;
Cert. Group Work Skills; PGDip CQSW; PGDip Applied Social Studies; UKCP (PGDip) Psychotherapy; Practice teacher (CCETSW); M.Ed Professional Development (ongoing)
Research Background:

12 years in youth and community work in the UK and abroad, moving from working with young people and mental health problems to specifically abuse and human rights, focusing eventually on domestic violence.  Publications and conference papers in all these areas.
Research Interests:

The thread pulling this together for me has been supervision and reflective practice, areas that I have come to focus on in my research in aspects of practice, youth and community contexts and higher education programmes.  Alongside this I maintain my interest in human rights and domestic violence and the two join in relation to developing teaching materials around the wider context of social justice.
Teaching Areas:

Interpersonal communication and group work; Conflict and conflict resolution; Reflective practice;
Supervision; Anti-oppressive practice; Social justice approaches to practice/counselling
Publications:

Trelfa, J. & Richmond, D (2008) 'Getting the Balance Right: training and education within NVQ and HE routes in youth work'. Youth & Policy Nos 97 & 98, Autumn 2007/Winter 2008.
Trelfa, J. (2005) 'Faith in Reflective Practice'. Reflective Practice Issue 62, May 2005. Carfax.
Trelfa, J et al. for Connexions (CSNU) 'The Process of Supervision: developing the reflective practitioner' 2003.
Trelfa, J. (1999) 'The Common Thread - the case for prevention work around domestic violence to be in the school curriculum' SDWA
Trelfa, J. (1999) 'Woman to Woman - Working with women who have experienced domestic violence'. Ahimsa.
Conference papers
The State of Global Youth Work in HEIs. November 12th, Leicester - 'Globalisation: an idea whose time has come?'
Promoting Inter Professional Education, Oxford, July 2006. Paper at 'More than Just a Pipe Dream - Emerging Issues in Research, Education and Practice'.
'Interpersonal Communication', TAG, London May 2006
'Assessing Practice', TAG, London May 2006
Youth Work and Workforce Reform, London February 2006 'The HEI Response to Workforce Reform'
TAG, Leeds 2005, ''Youth Matters': The CYWU/TAG Response'
Institute of Reflective Practice, International conference June 2004 'The Five Dimensions: a model for reflective practice'
Gloucester 1998 NCH Conference on Domestic Violence 'Perpetrator Programmes and Domestic Violence'.
Other Interests:

I have a young child, dog, live by a beach, love dancing and running - and these keep me grounded, stimulated and happily busy at every opportunity.

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