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Social, Leisure and Everyday Activities That Occupy People Living in Advanced Age
(AUT UniversityLeecareSolutions™ (www.leecare.com.au), 2010)•Aim of the Living to Advanced Age study •The purpose of this paper •Background to researching elders‟ social, leisure & everyday activities •The outcome measures used •The findings •What do they mean? -
Strengthening Participation by Young Women Sex Workers in HIV Programs: Reflections on a Study From Bangkok, Thailand
(Dove Medical Press, 2017)Background: Participation is an accepted means of increasing the effectiveness of public health programs, and as such, it is considered an important component of HIV interventions targeting at-risk youth. The situation of ... -
Strengths and difficulties questionnaire: Internal validity and reliability for New Zealand preschoolers
(BMJ Publishing Group Ltd., 2018)OBJECTIVES: This observational study examines the internal construct validity, internal consistency and cross-informant reliability of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) in a New Zealand preschool population ... -
The Struggle to Live and Let Live: The Psychology, Ethics and Politics of Tolerance, or, Why Discrimination is Preferable to Tolerance
(New Zealand Association of Psychotherapists (NZAP) Inc., and supported by the School of Public Health & Psychosocial Studies, Auckland University of Technology, 2014)When faced with the intolerance of the imperialist who denigrates and annihilates other ways of life, one answer is the principle of tolerance as advocated by multiculturalism and biculturalism. This asserts that each way ... -
Supporting People With Gambling Problems to Seek Help and Recover: Guidelines for the Public
(Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation, 2015)No abstract. -
Symbolic Diseases and ‘mindbody’ Co-emergence. A Challenge for Psychoneuroimmunology
(Elsevier, 2012)Physical diseases that appear to be symbolic somatic representations of patients’ personal meanings or individual ‘stories’ continue to be reported in the medical literature. The identification of a symbolic disease requires ... -
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 ...