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Takepu principled approach : a new vision for teaching social work practice in Aotearoa

Akhter, Selina; Leonard, Rose (Social Workers Registration Board of Aotearoa/New Zealand, 2014)

The purpose of the research reported here was to gather reflections of the learning experience of tauira (students) of Te Tohu Paetahi Ngā Poutoko Whakarara Oranga, Bachelor of Social Work : Biculturalism in Practice (BSW ...

Taking it slowly with managed care - Invited address in a workshop on Managed Care for Mental Health: International Experiences and the New Zealand Direction, Schizophrenia Fellowship National Conference, Christchurch. September 5-7. 1997

Bridgman, Geoff (Mental Health Foundation of New Zealand, 1998)

Managed care arose from a need to contain the escalating health costs of the insurance and litigation based US health system, which were rising at rates of more than 10% a year through the early 1990S. It is described as ...

Tales of character from the land where neo-liberalism wasn’t

Kenkel, David (2017-02)

By the way - the story that each and every individual is the master of their own destiny, and can control their own future irrespective of context is one of the most central and vicious of the lies neoliberalism encourages ...

Tāwhairitia Ngā Ahi : re-stoke the fires - surviving and thriving as an activist

Hamilton, Tommy; Mitchell, M. B. (International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association, Oceania, 2016-03)

Audio from the workshop: Surviving and Thriving as an Activist This workshop explored the challenges and opportunities of activists who both come from and work with the more 'excluded' members of the rainbow communities. ...

Teaching colonisation to Pākehā without provoking backlash: How to break down guilt, doubt, and resistance

McEvoy, Allan (2021-11)

We will - explore underpinnings of white fragility in the adult classroom, among Pākehā when facing the realities of colonisation in Aotearoa and the racist society and governance structures this process has bequeathed ...

Teaching deconstructivist ideas surrounding sexual identities : productive risks and effective pedagogy

Gremillion, Helen (2015-12)

In this presentation, I explore the promises and risks associated with my approach to teaching content around the construction of sexual identities. Focus on two class exercises. Teaching contexts: one bachelor’s level ...

Test of an insurance approach to the prevention of violence.

Bridgman, Geoffrey; Dyer, Elaine; O'Hagan, A.; McCarthy, M. (2017-02)

The New Zealand Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) pays compensation to everyone who is disabled temporarily or permanently by accidents. Accidents include intentional violence received from another person and the ...

Thriving in the margins

Mitchell, M. B.; Hamilton, Tommy (2015-08-15)

This workshop will explore the challenges and opportunities of therapists who both come from and work with the more ‘excluded’ members of the LGBTIQ communities. We will comment on the lack of discourse about this reality. ...

Toward partnership, building conditions of mutual reciprocity

Matthewson, Peter; Tunnicliffe, Craig (2015-09)

How we can create a truly partnered and collaborative way of engaging with communities of practice and of assessing the placement experience?

Transgender expression as productive disruption

Gremillion, Helen (2022-07-01)

Values based politics and new structural social work : theory for a post-neoliberal age? Initial experience under newly elected progressive government in Aotearoa / New Zealand

Matthewson, Peter (2018-07)

 Mission of social work to address the connection of personal troubles and public issues (Mills, 1959)  Includes implementing positive changes in the structures of society to enhance social justice, not simply assisting ...