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Symptom clusters in people living with HIV attending five palliative care facilities in two sub-Saharan African countries: a hierarchical cluster analysis
(PLOS, 2015)Symptom research across conditions has historically focused on single symptoms, and the burden of multiple symptoms and their interactions has been relatively neglected especially in people living with HIV. Symptom cluster ... -
A systematic review of the health benefits of Tai Chi for students in higher education
(Elsevier, 2016)Background The poor health consequences of stress are well recognized, and students in higher education may be at particular risk. Tai Chi integrates physical exercise with mindfulness techniques and seems well suited ... -
Tackling Institutional Racism As a Wicked Public Health Problem: The Case for Anti-racism Praxis
(Elsevier, 2017)Institutional racism is a wicked public health problem that fuels systemic health inequities between population groups in New Zealand, the United States and elsewhere. While literature has examined racism and its effects ... -
Te Waka Kuaka, Rasch Analysis of a Cultural Assessment Tool in Traumatic Brain Injury in Māori
(F1000 Research, 2017)Background: The aim was to examine the validity of a new measure, Te Waka Kuaka, in assessing the cultural needs of Māori with traumatic brain injury (TBI). Methods: Māori from around Aotearoa, New Zealand were recruited. ... -
Telerehabilitation to Improve Outcomes for People With Stroke: Study Protocol for a Randomised Controlled Trial
(BioMed Central Ltd., 2012)In New Zealand, around 45,000 people live with stroke and many studies have reported that benefits gained during initial rehabilitation are not sustained. Evidence indicates that participation in physical interventions can ... -
The Adopted Children From Eastern Europe Grow Up: A Pilot Study of Adjustment in Early Adulthood
(New Zealand Psychological Society (NZPsS), 2011)No abstract. -
The Affect of Adoption on a Couple’s Intimate Relationship
(The New Zealand Psychological Society supported by the Psychology Department, the University of Auckland, 2013)Although adoption research literature is fairly extensive, the majority of research tends to focus on the parent/child relationship, or how the child copes with the adoption. Very little research has considered the ... -
The Meaning of Being Aged and Being Maori
(The Selwyn Foundation - Selwyn Centre for Ageing and spirituality, 2009)The human entity‟s co-existence in the world is fundamental to an ontological interpretation of the meaning of being (Heidegger, 1927/1962). Accordingly, being-in-the-world is always a mode of „Being-with-Others.‟ Even ... -
The State of Adoption Knowledge: Comprehensive Analyses of Adoption Literature Published in the Scholarly Journals From 2000-2012
(Jesús Palacios, ICAR4, University of Seville, Spain, 2013)As academics and professionals who research and publish in the field of adoption, we are faced with numerous challenges when choosing who we research or write for. For example: do we choose advancement—and publish in ... -
Three Approaches to Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in Aotearoa New Zealand
(New Zealand Association of Psychotherapists Inc., 2016)This paper discusses three styles of psychoanalytic psychotherapy commonly practiced in Aotearoa New Zealand. Judi Blumenfeld Hoadley writes on object relations, Gustavo Restivo on the Lacanian orientation, and Sarah Calvert ... -
Towards an Openness of Being: The Personal Nature of Learning
(New Zealand Association of Psychotherapists (NZAP) Inc., 2017)This paper discusses an aspect of my PhD study on understanding psychotherapists’ experience of ongoing learning. For this study I interviewed 12 practising psychotherapists living in Aotearoa New Zealand. The personal ... -
Towards Health Equity: Institutional Racism As a Policy Issue
(New Zealand Population Health Congress (NZPHC), 2014)No abstract. -
Transforming Institutional Racism in Healthcare Management in Aotearoa
(Australian New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM), 2011)New Zealand has had stark inequalities in health outcomes between Māori and Non-Māori for decades. I argue that, at least in part, embedded institutional racism within the administration of the healthcare system may ... -
Treating chronic spontaneous urticaria using a brief ‘whole person’ treatment approach: a proof-of-concept study
(BioMed Central, 2015)Background: Chronic spontaneous urticaria (CSU) poses problems with respect to high prevalence, reduced quality of life, lack of long term efficacy, and expense of current treatments for severe intractable symptoms. There ... -
Turning Classroom Activities Into Research
(School of Education, Auckland University of Technology, 2011)No abstract. -
Turning Classroom Activities Into Research: A Replication of the Lost-letter Study
(School of Education, Auckland University of Technology, 2011)What began as an idea for an undergraduate psychology class activity, intended to increase understanding of social influence, became a replication of an early social psychology study. It also offered the students a unique ... -
Two Years On: Gambling Amongst Pacific Mothers Living in New Zealand
(Fiji School of Medicine, 2009)Research investigating the prevalence and correlates of Pacific peoples gambling within a New Zealand context is limited. This paper provides data about gambling activity from the two-year data collection point for a cohort ... -
Understanding the Experience of Being Aged: What We Can Learn From Community-dwelling Elders
(AUT University, 2009)No abstract. -
Understanding the Other in the Psychotherapeutic Relationship
(University of Calgary, 2019)Psychotherapy is often described as the art and science of endeavouring to understand the other. The difficulties inherent in understanding have contributed to psychotherapy being described as “the impossible profession” ... -
Unravelling the Whāriki of Crown Māori Health Infrastructure
(New Zealand Medical Association (NZMA), 2017)New Zealand’s central government and more specifically the Ministry of Health consistently acknowledges their special relationship with Māori and the strategic importance of Māori health, and, certainly, strengthening Māori ...