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How Migrants and Refugees Experience Play Therapy: The Influences of Cultural Background and Interactions with Social Services
New Zealand is facing a major increase in the number of refugees and migrants arriving each year of whom approximately a quarter are children. Parents and children who mi-grate experience multiple stresses that can impact ... -
Socio-ecological resilience and parental mental illness: Child and parent perspectives of service delivery
Service delivery for children of parents with mental illness (COPMI) and their families is considered essential in many countries for the prevention of mental illness and addiction in children, and their future resilience. ... -
Saints or Communists? The Story of Dunedin/Ōtepoti Food Banks and FoodShare
Food banks began in Aotearoa New Zealand in the 1980s and experienced a rapid rise from the early 1990s because of significant neoliberal reforms. Food banks and latterly “food rescue” organisations have become a normalised ... -
In Pursuit of Beauty Within the Ageing Body: Voices from Older Korean Women in New Zealand
Researchers have attempted to explore the experience of ageing bodies and the use of beauty and anti ageing practices among older women. However, an insufficient number of such studies have focused on women from diverse ... -
There's a new kid on the block: A longitudinal study of the aspirations held by members of the social work profession for the introduction of statutory registration for social workers in Aotearoa New Zealand...... and the consequences
The Aotearoa New Zealand Association of Social Workers (ANZASW) was established in 1964 and for nearly 40 years members of the Association debated the merits of statutory registration and its possible forms and processes. ... -
Social work skills for students prior to fieldwork placement
Social work skill is a key component of social work education yet it is an under researched area. This thesis seeks to address the gap in research around preparing social work students with skills they need for fieldwork ... -
Eating a nuclear disaster: A vital institutional ethnography of everyday eating in the aftermath of Tokyo Electric Power Company’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant disaster
This project explores the coordination of everyday eating in the aftermath of Tokyo Electric Power Company’s (TEPCO’s) Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant disaster. With the onset of the nuclear disaster in March 2011, ... -
Sustainable Development and Sustainable Wine New Zealand: Bridging Neoliberal Statecraft and Locally Appropriate Development
James C. Scott argues that states require schematic knowledge of local realities. This standardized knowledge produces one-size-fits-all development solutions, which can fail to adequately account for context and thus ... -
Indigenous social work practice development: The contribution of manaakitanga to Mana-enhancing social work practice theory
Manaakitanga is acknowledged as a foundational Te Ao Māori value, construct and tikanga that underpins relationships. This research thesis sought an in-depth understanding of manaakitanga as it is understood and practiced ... -
Becoming an Ex-Forensic Psychiatric Client: Transitioning to Recovery within the Community
This study used Constructivist Grounded Theory to explore both how clients within a forensic psychiatric service in Aotearoa/New Zealand transitioned to living in the community and what factors influenced this transition. ... -
Fertility stalls in Bangladesh
This study uncovered the causes of fertility stalls in Bangladesh. A fertility stall occurs when fertility rate levels off or increases following a trend of decline. Fertility in Bangladesh has declined rapidly since the ... -
Pregnant Adolescents: How do Social Worker's assess their parenting capacity?
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 ... -
Gendered health technologies: the medicalisation of sexuality and the embodiment of reproduction
My thesis explores the medicalisation of male and female bodies in respect of sexuality and reproduction. I investigate the complex interaction of gender and sexuality in relation to health technologies such as Viagra, ... -
Rational economic families: social reproduction and social policy in 1980s and 1990s New Zealand
This thesis examines social policy during New Zealand’s era of neoliberal transformation, the fourth Labour government of 1984-1990, followed by the fourth National government of 1990-1999. It traces the shift from a ... -
"BABY MAMA" The experiences of being a teenage parent
This study explores the challenges that young mothers face and the support systems they access along the way. The format that it adopted was to have semi structured interviews with ten young mothers who reside in Southland, ... -
The Right to Food Guidelines, Democracy and Citizen Participation: Country Case Studies
It is now more than a decade since the Right to Food Guidelines was negotiated, agreed and adopted internationally by states. This book provides a review of its objectives and the extent of success of its implementation. ... -
The legal and practice implications of the s18A amendment to the Children Young Persons and Their Families Act 1989
This thesis examines section 18A of the Children Young Persons and Their Families Act 1989, which took force on 1 July 2016. The historical, drafting and rights issues associated with its enactment and its implications for ... -
Treatment Adherence Among People with Schizophrenia: An Application of the Theory of Planned Behaviour
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 ... -
Hoki ki tōu maunga kia purea ai koe ki ngā hau o Tāwhirimātea. A tangata whenua model of supervision
This thesis explores a cultural practice, specifically a Tangata Whenua (people of the land) model for supervision through the experiences of research participants using a phenomenological approach. The model for supervision ... -
Is there a suit missing in the social worker's wardrobe? A study of the nature and extent of an educator role in everyday social work practice in Aotearoa New Zealand
Reflection on the roles and tasks of social workers is undertaken continually to define and redefine the profession’s mission and purpose as it endeavours to respond to the challenges of the 21st century. As part of this ...