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Community Treatment Orders for People with Serious Mental Illness: A New Zealand Study
New Zealand legislation allows for the involuntary outpatient treatment of people with serious mental illness. This study examines the views of service users, family members and mental health professionals (MHPs) about the ...
‘Walking between worlds’: the experiences of New Zealand Māori cross-cultural adoptees
In New Zealand between 1955 and 1985 over 45,000 closed stranger adoptions took place. The Adoption Act 1955 promoted the closed adoption of many Indigenous Māori children into Pākehā (white European) families. Such adoptions ...
Coping with Compulsion: Women's Views of Being on a Community Treatment Order
An interview-based study of 42 people with serious mental illness was undertaken in New Zealand during the early 2000s. Of the 42 people, 10 were women. The women were either currently on a Community Treatment Order or had ...
‘It's About People and Their Environment’: Student Social Workers' Definitions of Social Work Research
This article considers constructions of social work research from the perspectives of student social workers in New Zealand. There have been many academic discussions of the unique epistemology that can be called social ...
Pathways to parenting in New Zealand: issues in law, policy and practice
In New Zealand there are many ways to become a parent, including two-parent families of heterosexual and homosexual couples, single parents, adoptive parents, kin carers, whāngai arrangements, long-term fostering, guardianship ...
Home Detention with Electronic Monitoring: The New Zealand Experience
Home detention with electronic monitoring was introduced in New Zealand in October 1999. It is an early release option for people sentenced to varying lengths of imprisonment. Detainees, as they are called, are released ...
‘Love them to bits; spend time with them; have fun with them’: New Zealand parents’ views of building attachments with their newly adopted Russian children
• Summary: Focus groups and semi-structured interviews were conducted with 15 parents from New Zealand who had adopted Russian born children. The aim of the research was to explore the ways in which parents establish and ...
Ambivalence about community treatment orders
The trend to endorse the use of outpatient commitment, or community treatment orders (CommTOs) (the terms are equivalent), seems to be gathering momentum. There is now some empirical evidence and a significant body of ...
Reflections on Designing and Teaching a Social Work Research Course for Distance and On-Campus Students
Social work educators are increasingly challenged to train future social workers who can both value research and believe in themselves as capable researchers. One way to achieve this is the teaching of a specific social ...
An exploration of kaupapa Maori research, its principles, processes and applications
Kaupapa Maori research developed as part of a broader movement by Maori to question westernized notions of knowledge, culture, and research. Kaupapa Maori research has been used as both a form of resistance and a methodological ...