Publications

Current Research Grants and Contracts (Select)

• 2023
  • Shlonsky, A., Baidawi, S., Mendes, P., & Petrakis, M.
    Implementation and evaluation of Melbourne City Mission Youth Housing Initiative (YHI)
    Melbourne City Mission
  • Centre for Evidence and Implementation, Monash University
    Evaluation of NSW Services Our Way
    Services Our Way
  • Centre for Evidence and Implementation, Monash University, Colorado State University
    Evidence review of Kinship Care
    UK What Works for Children’s Social Care
  • Centre for Evidence and Implementation, Monash University
    Youth Justice Evaluation Planning
    Queensland Treasure Corporation
  • Shlonsky, A., & Featherston, R., & Maghidman, M.
    Evidence brief on the use of simulation-based learning in social work
    Susan McKinnon Foundation
• 2022
  • Centre for Evidence and Implementation, UK Institute for Employment Studies, Monash University
    Evidence Reviews for a Youth Employment Toolkit
    UK Youth Futures Foundation
  • Tools for Intelligent Practice
    NSW Department of Communities and Justice
• 2021
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) Proof of Concept (PoC) Prediction Tool for OOHC Placement Stability
    NSW Department of Communities and Justice

Completed Research Grants and Contracts (Select)

• 2022
  • Monash University, Centre for Evidence and Implementation, Curijo
    External Merits Review Model for Child Protection Decisions
    Australian Capital Territories Community Services Directorate
• 2021
  • Centre for Evidence and Implementation, Monash University
    Systematic review of how best to deliver and evaluate place-based approaches to tackling local youth violence
    Youth Endowment Fund
• 2020
  • Implementation support and capability build for the Victorian and Aboriginal Family Preservation and Reunification Response Practice Modules: Evaluation Planning
    Victoria Department of Health and Human Services
  • What Works for Children's Social Care: Transitions From Out of Home Care Systematic Review
    What Works in Children’s Social Care, UK
  • Circle of Care Evaluation Plan Centre for Evidence and Evaluation, Singapore and Save the Children, Australia
  • Centre for Evidence and Implementation, Monash University
    Systematic Review: Risk and Protective Factors for Maltreatment of People with a Disability
    Disability Royal Commission
• 2019
  • Centre for Evidence and Implementation, Monash University, CIRCA.
    NSW Department of Communities and Justice
    Supportive Housing and Engagement Program (STEP) Evaluation
  • Giving Evidence, Centre for Evidence and Implementation, Monash University.
    Porticus
    Evidence and Gap Map: Institutional Responses to Child Maltreatment
  • Centre for Evidence and Implementation, Monash University, Melbourne Institute, CIRCA.
    NSW Family and Community Services
    Future Directions Evaluation: Strategy and Programs
  • Centre for Evidence and Implementation, Monash University, Melbourne Institute, CIRCA.
    NSW Family and Community Services
    Permanency Support Program evaluation
  • Centre for Evidence and Implementation, Monash University, CIRCA.
    NSW Family and Community Services
    Brighter Futures — Voices and Choices: Indicative evaluation plan
• 2018
  • Centre for Evidence and Implementation and Melbourne University
    Victoria Department of Health and Human Services
    Evaluation of Evidence-Based Programs in Family Services
• 2017
  • Centre for Evidence and Implementation and Melbourne University
    Victoria Department of Health and Human Services
    Family Safety Victoria
    Menu of Evidence Informed Practices and Programs
  • Centre for Evidence and Implementation and Melbourne University
    Family Safety Victoria
    Family Violence Child Protection Partnership Review
  • Centre for Evidence and Implementation, Monash University, University of Southern California
    Singapore Early Childhood Development Agency
    KidSTART Outcome Evaluation
  • Centre for Evidence and Implementation, Behavioural Insights Team, Monash University
    NSW Family and Community Services
    Premier’s Youth Initiative Continuous Quality Improvement and Evaluation
  • Centre for Evidence and Implementation, Monash University, Behavioural Insights Team
    NSW Family and Community Services
    Evaluation of the Homeless Assistance Program (HYAP)

Publications – Books

• Killick, C.& Taylor, B. & Fluke, J. & Graham, C. & Keddell, E. & Shlonsky, A. & Whittaker, A. (2023).
  The Sage Handbook of Decision Making, Assessment and Risk in Social Work. Sage Knowledge.
• Albers, B., & Shlonsky, A. & Mildon, R. (2020).
  Implementation Science 3.0. NY: Springer.
• Shlonsky, A. & Benbenishty, R. (2014).
  From Evidence to Outcomes in Child Welfare: An International Reader. NY: Oxford University Press.
• Saini, M. & Shlonsky, A. (2012).
  Systematic synthesis of qualitative research. NY: Oxford University Press.
• Lindsey, D. & Shlonsky, A. (Eds.) (2008).
  Child welfare research. NY: Oxford University Press.

Publications – Peer Reviewed Journal Articles

• 2024
  • Beriman, B., Ling, D., & Shlonsky, A. (under review).
    Common Humanity in Healthcare: A scoping review of measures. Heliyon.
  • Featherston, R., Barlow, J., Song, Y., Haysom, Z., Loy, B., Tufford, L., & Shlonsky, A. (2024).
    Mindfulness-enhanced parenting programmes for improving the psychosocial outcomes of children (0 to 18 years) and their parents. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2024, Issue 1. Art. No.: CD012445.
    https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD012445.pub2
• 2023
  • Tan, E. S., McLeod, B. D., Mildon, R. A., Shlonsky, A., & Seah, C. K. F., McCrickerd K., Goh, E., Kembhavi G.
    (2023). Assessing the effectiveness and implementation of a universal classroom-based set of educator practices to improve preschool children’s social-emotional outcomes: Protocol for a cluster randomized controlled type 2 hybrid trial in Singapore. PLOS ONE 18(9): e0291723.
    https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0291723
  • Metz, K., Lewis, J., Mitchell, J., Chakraborty, S., McLeod, B. D., Bjørndal, L., Mildon, R., & Shlonsky, A.
    (2023) Problem-solving interventions and depression among adolescents and young adults: A systematic review of the effectiveness of problem-solving interventions in preventing or treating depression. PLoS One. 2023 Aug 29;18(8):e0285949.
    https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0285949
• 2022
  • Finch, M., Featherston, R., Chakraborty S., Bjørndal L., Mildon, R., Albers, B., Fiennes, C., Taylor, D. J. A., Schachtman, R., Yang, T., & Shlonsky, A. (2022).
    Interventions that address institutional child maltreatment: An evidence and gap map. Research on Social Work Practice.
    https://doi.org/10.1177%2F10497315221115867
  • Regehr, C., Regehr, G., & Shlonsky, A. (2022).
    Measuring Competence in Social Work: A Tribute to the Contributions of Marion Bogo. Journal of Social Work Education.
    https://doi.org/10.1080/10437797.2022.2158148
  • Han, X., Harrigan, S. & Shlonsky, A. (2022).
    Psychometric Evaluation of the Self-Efficacy Questionnaire for Children (SEQ-C): Validation among Chinese Children and Adolescents. Current Psychology.
    https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-022-03046-6
  • Yang, T., Featherston, R., & Shlonsky, A. (2022).
    Exploring migrant mothers' experiences of alienation in association with parenting: A scoping review. Child & Family Social Work, 1– 16.
    https://doi.org/10.1111/cfs.12904
  • Smith, J., Durham, D., Beatty, E., Price-Cameron, M., Kartusch, K., Shlonsky, A., Browne, D. (2022).
    Trajectories of psychosocial functioning and attachment behaviors among children adopted in the Ontario child welfare system. Journal of Public Child Welfare.
    https://doi.org/10.1080/15548732.2021.1881690
• 2021
  • Bay, U., Maghidman, M., Waugh, J. & Shlonsky, A. (2021).
    Online teaching, simulations, clinical practice laboratories and Objective Standardised Competency Examinations for Social Work in the time of COVID. Clinical Social Work Journal. 
    https://doi.org/10.1007/s10615-021-00807-x
  • Taylor, D. J. A., Shlonsky, A., Albers, B., Chakraborty, S., Lewis, J., Mendes, P., Macdonald, G., & Williams, K. (2021).
    Protocol for a systematic review of policies, programs or interventions designed to improve health and wellbeing of young people leaving the out-of-home care system. Syst Rev 10, 240 (2021).
    https://doi.org/10.1186/s13643-021-01792-5
  • Finch, M., Featherston, R., Chakraborty, S., Bjørndal, L., Mildon, R., Albers, B., Fiennes, C., Taylor, D. J. A., Schachtman, R., Yang, T., & Shlonsky, A. (2021).
    Interventions that address institutional child maltreatment: An evidence and gap map. Campbell Systematic Reviews, 17(1), e1139.
    https://doi-org./10.1002/cl2.1139
  • Lee, D. A., Newton, F., Mong, LY., Morphet, J., Kidman, G., Maloney, S., Grieve, A., Shlonsky, A., Haines, T.P. (2021).
    Supervisors’ experiences in supervising higher education students from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds during work-integrated learning of health and non-health courses. Journal of Higher Education.
    https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-020-00567-6
• 2020
  • McGinn, T., Best P., Wilson, J., Chereni, A., Kamndaya, M., Shlonsky, A. (2020).
    Family group decision‐making for children at risk of abuse or neglect: A systematic review. Campbell Systematic Reviews. New York, Wiley.
    https://doi-org.ezproxy.lib.monash.edu.au/10.1002/cl2.1088
  • Steiner, V., Joubert, L., Shlonsky, A., & Hocking, A. (2020).
    Hospital parenting support for adults with incurable end-stage cancer: Multidisciplinary health professional perspectives. Health and Social Work. 
    https://doi.org/10.1093/hsw/hlab024
  • Haysom, Z., McKibbin, G. P., Shlonsky, A., & Hamilton, B. (2020). 
    Changing considerations of Matching Foster Carers and Children: A Scoping Review of the Research and Evidence. Children and Youth Services Review.
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2020.105409
  • Albers, B. & Shlonsky, A. (2020).
    When policy hits practice – Learning from the failed implementation of MST-EA in Australia. Human Service Organizations: Management, Leadership and Governance. https://doi.org/10.1080/23303131.2020.1779893
  • Steiner, V., Joubert, L., Shlonsky, A., & Hocking, A. (2020).
    Australian Hospital-Based Parenting Support for Adults with Incurable End-Stage Cancer: Parent Perspectives. Journal of Evidence-Based Social Work, 0(0), 1–19.
    https://doi.org/10.1080/26408066.2019.1705957
• 2019
  • Mackieson, P., Shlonsky, A. & Connolly, M. (2019).
    Increasing rigor and reducing bias in qualitative research: A document analysis of parliamentary debates using applied thematic analysis. Qualitative Social Work., 18(6), 965-980.
    https://doi.org/10.1177/1473325018786996
  • Albers, B., Fiennes, C., Shlonsky, A., Finch, M., Bjørndal, L., Hennessy, J., Krapels, J., Featherston, R., & Mildon, R. (2019).
    Evidence gap map: Institutional responses to child maltreatment (protocol). Campbell Collaboration.
    https://doi.org/10.1002/cl2.1139
  • Galvin, K., Featherston, R., Downie, L., Vogel, A., Hamilton, B., Granger, C., & Shlonsky, A. (2019).
    A systematic review of interventions to reduce the effects of cognitive biases in the decision-making of audiologists. American Academy of Audiology.
    https://doi.org/10.3766/jaaa.18096
  • Shlonsky, A., Featherston, R., Hamilton, B., Galvin, K., Vogel, A., Granger, C., Lewis, C., Luong, M. & Downie, L. (2019).
    Systematic Review: Interventions to Mitigate Cognitive Biases in the Decision Making of Eye Care Professionals. Optometry and Vision Science. https://doi.org/10.1097/OPX.0000000000001445
  • Parolini, A., Tan, W. W., & Shlonsky, A. (2019).
    Decision-based models of the implementation of interventions in systems of healthcare: Implementation outcomes and intervention effectiveness in complex service environments. PLoS ONE, 14, e0223129.
    https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0223129
  • Shlonsky, A., Ma, J., Jeffreys, C., Parolini, A., & Katz, I (2019).
    Pathways of children reported for domestic and family violence to Australian child protection. Australian Social Work.
    https://doi.org/10.1080/0312407X.2019.1624795
  • Featherston, R., Shlonsky, A., Lewis, C., Luong, M., Downie, L., Vogel, A., Granger, C., Hamilton, B., & Galvin, K. (2019).
    Interventions to Mitigate Bias in Social Work Decision Making: A Systematic Review Research on Social Work Practice.
    https://doi.org/10.1177/1049731518819160
  • Browne, D. T., Johnson, J., Beatty, E., Cameron, M. P., Durham, D., & Shlonsky, A. (2019).
    The Therapeutic Family Care Program: A 10-year community implementation of Treatment Foster Care in Ontario, Canada. Developmental Child Welfare.
    https://doi.org/10.1177/2516103218815701

Publications – Reports

• 2023
  • KidSTART outcome evaluation study: final report (2023). Singapore Early
    Childhood Development Agency.
  • Rose V, Jacob C, Roberts J, Hodgkin L, Shlonsky A., Kalb G, Meekes J, Etuk L & Braaf R. (2023).
    Evaluation of the Permanency Support Program: Final Report
    Centre for Evidence and Implementation, Sydney
  • Baidawi, S., Valdebenito, S., Smith, S., Irving, M., Wils, E., Mitchell, J., Hall, A., Tan, B., Lewis, J., Shlonsky, A. (2023).
    Place-based approaches to tackling local youth violence: a review of evidence on models, implementation and impacts. UK Youth Endowment Fund.
  • Taylor, D., Featherston, B., Shlonsky, A. (2023).
    Youth employment toolkit: Evidence Review.
• 2022
  • Shlonsky, A., Rose, V., Jacob, C., Pritchard, B., Kendall, B., Hancock, N. and Sheehan, R. (2022).
    ACT external merits review of child protection decisions: Model selection and implementation final report. Australian Capital Territory, Community Services Directorate, Canberra.
• 2021
  • Tang, T., Featherston, B., Hargreaves, M., Taylor, D. and Shlonsky, A. (2021).
    Artificial intelligence – proof of concept (ai-poc) project to predict placement stability: summary report. NSW Department of Communities and Justice.
  • Lewis, J., Mitchell, J., Chakraborty, S., Mcleod, B. D., Metz, K. L., Bjørndal, L. D., … Shlonsky, A. (2021).
    Problem-solving interventions and depression among adolescents and young adults: A systematic review of the effectiveness of problem-solving interventions in preventing or treating depression among 13-25 year olds.
  • Taylor, D., Rose, V., Etuk, L., Roberts, J., Shlonsky, A. (2021).
    Evaluation of Brighter Futures: Voices and Choices Trial: Final Report. NSW Department of Communities and Justice.
  • Koh, J., Featherston, B., Kembhavi-Tam, G., Rose, V., Shlonsky, A. (2021).
    Rapid Evidence Review: Violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation of people with disability. Australia Disability Royal Commission.
  • Taylor, D., Albers, B., Mann, G., Chakraborty, S., Lewis, J. Mendes, P., Macdonald, G., Williams, K. and Shlonsky, A. (2021).
    Systematic review and meta-analysis of policies, programmes & interventions that improve outcomes for young people leaving the out of home care system. UK Centre on What Works for Children in Social Care.
  • Taylor D., Roberts J., Rose V., Gyani A., Harrigan S. & Shlonsky A. (2021).
    Evaluation of the Premier’s Youth Initiative: Final Report, Centre for Evidence and Implementation, Sydney.
• 2020
  • Taylor D., Chakraborty S., Ng J., Rose V., Gyani A., Roberts J., Harrigan S. & Shlonsky A. (2020).
    Evaluation of the Homeless Youth Assistance Program: Final Report, Centre for Evidence and Implementation, Sydney.