Phil Watson

Phil trained in theology and has served as a senior minister in Baptist and Vineyard churches in New Zealand and Australia. He became interested in social work while helping to establish branches of DRUG-ARM (Awareness and Relief Movement) in Melbourne and Sydney in the 1990s. He works as a family practitioner in Functional Family Therapy – Child Welfare and contributed to the latest edition of The Strengths Approach, the seminal book on strengths-based practice by Wayne McCashen.