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- ItemSocial Work Formulation: Principles and Strategies for Mental Health Social Workers in Aotearoa New Zealand(Aotearoa New Zealand Association of Social Workers, 2024-04-21) Appleby, Jo; Cox, Kendra; Black, Karyn; Marsh, NatashaINTRODUCTION: Social workers are important members of multidisciplinary mental health teams and formulation is a core skill in mental health practice. However, there is little published guidance about what strong social work formulation looks like. As a group of mental health social workers, including experienced and recent graduates, we identified this discrepancy between the importance of a social work perspective on formulation and the lack of guidance available to us. We propose some key principles for social work formulation in Aotearoa New Zealand. This theoretical article is designed to encourage our mental health social work colleagues, new and experienced, to engage in formulation that is informed by social work values and knowledge. APPROACH: As a group of mental health social workers, we approached this task with a mix of theory and practice. We conducted a literature review of both social work formulation and Māori formulation, then discussed how these approaches align with the social work knowledge base in Aotearoa New Zealand, social work core competencies, and our experience of mental health practice. From this approach, we identified six key principles for social work formulation in Aotearoa New Zealand. CONCLUSIONS: Strong social work formulation is bicultural, collaborative, strengths-based, ecological, has a social justice lens and is whānau-inclusive.
- ItemLiteracy and Numeracy Skills and Life-Course Outcomes: Evidence from PIAAC and Linked Administrative Data(Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE), 2024-10-15) Meehan, Lisa; Pacheco, Gail; Schober, ThomasThis paper examines the life-course trajectories of NZ adults across different literacy and numeracy skill levels. This is done by using skill information for the working-age adult population (aged 16-65 years) collected in the Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC). This sample is then linked with administrative data to track their life-course outcomes from 2008 to 2020. The outcomes of the one-fifth of NZ working-age adults who were assessed at below Level 2 in either literacy or numeracy (or both) are compared with those at or above this baseline. It finds that adults with low measured skills have less favourable outcomes in a number of areas. They have lower rates of educational attainment, lower employment rates and average earnings, higher rates of hospitalisation, and higher rates of criminal offending and convictions. In addition, outcomes for Māori and Pacific peoples in both the low-skills and above-baseline groups are generally less favourable than those of their NZ European counterparts. For example, even among those with above-baseline skills, Māori and Pacific peoples have lower average earnings than NZ Europeans. These results provide a quantifiable evidence base regarding the role of literacy and numeracy skills with respect to a range of wellbeing outcomes over the course of an individual’s life.
- ItemA Collaborative Autoethnographic Journey of Collective Storying: Transitioning Between the ‘I’, the ‘We’ and the ‘They’(SAGE Publications, 2024-03-21) Dyer, Suzette; Hurd, Fiona; Kenworthy, Amy; Hedges, Peggy; Wall, Tony; Shankaran, Shankar; Jones, David RaymondThe story we share here is about lessons learned during a three-year, collaborative autoethnographic journey beginning in January 2020. Our story is one of conducting a meaningful inquiry into our shared lived experience amid the changes brought about by COVID-19 lockdowns. Our insights speak to how we collaboratively reflected and researched across institutions, countries, disciplines, and career stages. More importantly, in making our process explicit, we highlight the way storying was experienced within our collective space. In doing so, we explore insights about how stories are adapted and transformed through a process of navigating the development of, and transitions between, pre-public and public spaces. Using an Arendtian lens, we explore the question, How are autoethnographic collaborative stories crafted for research in an academic context? Our insights present a cyclical and developmental frame within which to process collaborative storying and indeed collaborative academic work.
- ItemPartisanship, Elections and Lockdowns: Evidence from US States(Wiley, 2024-05-25) Pacheco, G; Wesselbaum, DIn this article, we use state-level variation in Senate elections and partisanship to understand the variation in lockdown characteristics in the US. We argue that the state-level decision makers and their parties weigh off the perceived political costs in an election year of a depressed economy against risks to public health. Democrats and Republicans, and their voters, vary in the weights they attach to these costs and benefits. We are thus exploring the marginal effect of the party–election interaction after accounting for other likely drivers of variations in lockdown characteristics. We find that Republican states with an election have less strict and shorter lockdowns compared to Democratic states with an election. Our results have implications for the communication of pandemic policies, including vaccination strategies.
- ItemFeeling Younger and Acting Greener: The Impact of Subjective Age on Sustainable Consumption(Wiley, 2024-06-12) Lee, DC; Kim, JIt is widely believed that younger generations are at the forefront of sustainability efforts. Given the significance of fostering greater consumer participation in sustainable consumption, this perception prompts an intriguing question: If consumers associate sustainability with younger individuals, can simply instilling a sense of youthfulness increase their engagement in sustainable consumption, regardless of their actual age? Building upon previous research on subjective age—that is, how old one feels—and consumer identity, we propose that consumers will gravitate towards sustainable products when they feel younger than older. This is because such products align well with their perceived age identity, creating a perception of fit. The findings across three studies provide converging evidence that simply making consumers feel younger can result in an increased preference for sustainable products. Study 1 demonstrated that feeling younger increased the selection of more sustainable products over less sustainable ones. Study 2 showed that this effect is mediated by the perceived fit. Study 3 further supported the underlying mechanism by revealing that the focal effect was mitigated when the association between sustainability and younger age was weakened. Study 4 replicated the focal effect in a consequential choice setting. Finally, Study 5 confirmed the proposed effect by using trait subjective age as a predictor.