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Parenting self-efficacy in parents of adolescents: Does it increase by completing The Parenting Place Tween & Teens Toolbox Parenting Programme?
Parenting programmes both educate and support parents. It is important to understand and ascertain how effective they are in making a difference to the fundamental human experience of parenting. Evidence-based research of ...
From ‘Producers’ to ‘Polluters’: Farmers’ experience in the Lake Taupō Water Quality Trading Program
Improvement of freshwater quality within New Zealand poses a threat not only to the country’s treasured and pristine waterways, but the culturally and economically dominant agricultural sector as well. Encompassing the ...
Looking at Rape Prevention: An Analysis of the Representations of Sexuality, Gender and Rape Myth in Rape Prevention Poster Campaigns
Rape prevention campaigns have the potential to counter and resist discourses that are fundamental to rape culture and the on-going perpetuation of sexual violence. They are therefore a crucial site of anti-rape activism. ...
Relationships Matter? Multiple perspectives on children’s attachment experiences in group home settings
Children who are admitted into residential care often have a history of abuse, neglect, experienced trauma and have had multiple failed placements. Caring for these children can be challenging due to their complex behavioural ...
The Effects of 'The Teachability Factor' Professional Development Workshop on Teachers' Perceptions of Challenging Children in their Classroom
Within the extensive research literature on attachment neurobiology there is little empirical research on it’s application to education. The research suggests there is a significant relationship between being securely ...
Family inclusive teamwork in mental health : collaborative working partnerships between the patient, family and staff, especially focussed on an acute adult mental health service in Dunedin
This research explores the concept of best practice working relationships between family, patient and staff in the context of acute adult mental illness. In the formal mental health services of New Zealand this concept is ...
A Matter of Waste: Making experiences and perceptions of household food waste visible
This thesis examines the topic of household food wastage in New Zealand. The possible ecological economic impacts of food wastage are now increasingly being recognised as part of a turn towards recognising the political ...
The ethics of predictive risk modelling in the Aotearoa/New Zealand child welfare context: child abuse prevention or neo-liberal tool?
The current White Paper on Vulnerable Children before the Aotearoa/New Zealand (A/NZ) parliament proposes changes that will significantly reconstruct the child welfare systems in this country, including the use of a ...
Paradox Lost? Four Theoretical Perspectives on Whānau Ora
New Zealand’s bicultural project, as initiated by the 1984 Labour government, is marked by paradox and contestation. The paradox shows Māori to be both enfranchised by the inclusion of references to the Treaty of Waitangi ...
Developing a National Health Social Work Competency Framework
Health Social Workers engage with people, including the healthy and chronically ill, across the ages and stages of life from conception to death. They encounter diverse client-related issues in their day-to-day practice. ...