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Pregnant Adolescents: How do Social Worker's assess their parenting capacity?

Bruce, Gabrielle Claire (Thesis, Master of Arts, 2017)

It is the role of Child, Youth and Family (CYF) Social Workers in Aotearoa New Zealand to decide whether pregnant adolescents have the capacity to raise and effectively parent their children when reports of concern are ...
Treatment Adherence Among People with Schizophrenia: An Application of the Theory of Planned Behaviour

Willers, Robert James (Thesis, Master of Social Welfare, 2017)

Schizophrenia is a severe and persistent psychiatric disorder that, for most sufferers, responds well to a range of pharmacological and psychosocial treatment options. However, management of symptoms and ability to function ...
Relocation following parental separation: International research, policy and practice

Taylor, Nicola (Journal Article, Children Australia, 2013)

Relocation disputes are widely regarded internationally as one of the most difficult and controversial issues in family law. This article outlines the legal context governing relocation disputes in New Zealand and briefly ...
At the Margins: Victim Contact Work in the New Zealand Probation Service

Cunningham, Polly; Gibbs, Anita (Journal Article, British Journal of Community Justice, 2005)

In this article victim contact work undertaken by the New Zealand probation service will be reviewed. Victim contact work involves probation staff in making enquiries for reparation and emotional harm reports at the pre- ...
Care and Protection Orders and CYFS

Atwool, Nicola; Gunn, Tracey (Commissioned Report for External Body, 2012)
Nō Ōrākau: Past and People in James Cowan's Places

Cooper, Annabel (Journal Article, The Journal of New Zealand Studies, 2015)

In tracing the interconnections of place and people in James Cowan's writing, this article argues that his widely-disseminated body of work complicates current orthodoxies and warrants more consideration in the study of ...
Community Probation in New Zealand / Aotearoa

Gibbs, Anita (Journal Article, VISTA: Perspectives on Probation, 2000)
Home Detention with Electronic Monitoring in New Zealand and its Implications for Probation

Gibbs, Anita; King, Denise (Journal Article, VISTA: Perspectives on Probation, 2002)
Children in Care

Atwool, Nicola (Commissioned Report for External Body, 2010)
Children and vulnerability

Atwool, Nicola (Chapter in Book, Childhoods: Growing up in Aotearoa/New Zealand, 2013)
Maori concepts for social and community work

Eketone, Anaru (Journal Article, Scope: Kaupapa Kai Tahu, 2013)

For those working in Māori communities or organisations, it is important to understand some of the inherent Māori cultural concepts that are important to those contexts. Many groups and projects have struggled to involve ...
Attachment and resilience: Implications for children in care

Atwool, Nicola (Journal Article, Child Care in Practice, 2006)

Attachment theory and resilience theory have developed as two separate bodies of knowledge with their own genealogy. In this paper it is argued that the concepts of attachment and resilience should be regarded as complementary ...
Court Records and the History of Male Homosexuality

Brickell, Chris (Journal Article, Archifacts, 2008)

Court records have played a central role in research on the history of sex and intimacy between men. They have revealed patterns of policing and punishment in countries where homosexuality has been illegal, and have also ...
Practitioner Evaluation

Gibbs, Anita (Journal Article, Social Work Review, 2000)

Practitioner evaluation: the idea that practitioners themselves undertake a systematic study of their own practice has been encouraged for a long time as an applied social work and health practice research strategy. It is ...
Is Probation Work Social Work?

Gibbs, Anita; King, Denise (Journal Article, Social Work Review, 2001)

This article seeks to ask the question: Is probation work social work? It arises from the authors' involvement with UK and NZ probation services over the last 16 years and from conversations with probation staff in New ...
Birth Family contact for children in care: How much? How often? Who with?

Atwool, Nicola (Journal Article, Child Care in Practice, 2013)

Irrespective of type of placement, contact with the birth family is one of the more contentious issues in decision-making for children in care. Despite widespread belief that contact with the birth family is beneficial for ...
Participation in decision-making: The experience of New Zealand children in care

Atwool, Nicola (Journal Article, Child Care in Practice, 2006)

One of the objections to a children's rights perspective is that children are unable to accept the responsibilities that go with rights. If children are to attain the status of citizens and exercise the responsibilities ...
Child protection and out of home care: Policy, practice and research connections Australia and New Zealand

Fernandez, Elizabeth; Atwool, Nicola (Journal Article, Psychosocial Intervention, 2013)

This article provides an outline of the early development of care and protection in Australia and New Zealand as a backdrop to an overview of child protection systems and policies and the current child protection profile ...
Life Story Work: Optional extra or fundamental entitlement?

Atwool, Nicola (Journal Article, Child Care in Practice, 2016)

In Aotearoa New Zealand the importance of life story books is outlined in the policy of our statutory care and protection agency Child, Youth and Family. Many children in care do not have access to such a resource, however, ...
What do Social Work Students Think Social Work Research Is

Gibbs, Anita (Journal Article, Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work, 2012)

In New Zealand, social work students often undertake social work research training as part of their first qualification in social work. The focus of this article is to consider what social work students think social work ...