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January / February 2017
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Small changes to library database

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New resources  
 
Here are some of the books, reports, and other resources added to the NZFVC library this month. Use the "read more" link to the NZFVC library online to read the full summary and request or download the item. Please contact us if any links are broken. 
 
New Zealand

Artus, J. & Niemi, M. (2016).
Review of evidence for primary prevention of child abuse and neglect (including child sexual abuse). Wellington, New Zealand: Accident Compensation Corporation.
Summary: This report summarises the evidence in relation to what works for the primary prevention of child abuse and neglect (CAN) including child sexual abuse (CSA) with a focus on children aged 0-5 and the adults around them.
The review addresses the following research questions... Read more

Ministry of Health. (2016).
Healthy Ageing Strategy. Wellington, New Zealand: Ministry of Health.
Summary: This strategy refreshes and replaces the Health of Older People Strategy 2002, and aligns with the new New Zealand Health Strategy 2016.... Read more

Ministry of Health. (2016).
The prevention and management of abuse: Guide for services funded by Disability Support Services. Wellington, New Zealand: Ministry of Health.
Summary: This guide has been developed to provide clear and effective guidance to safeguard the disabled people who receive support funded by Disability Support Services. This Guideline supports providers to comply with the Ministry of Health's Outcome Agreement and service specifications for services, including residential, children's support services, foster care and contract board...  Read more

Office for Disability Issues. (2016).
New Zealand Disability Strategy 2016 - 2026. Wellington, New Zealand: Ministry of Social Development.
Summary: This strategy will guide the work of government agencies on disability issues from 2016 to 2026. Vision: New Zealand is a non-disabling society - a place where disabled people have an equal opportunity to achieve their goals and aspirations, and all of New Zealand works together to make this happen. Three sets of principles and two approaches will help implement the Strategy... Read more

Ministry of Justice. (2016).
A common approach to understanding Family Violence Risk Assessment and Management: A discussion document for consultation. Prepared by Ministry of Justice.
Summary: This consultation draft has been developed through a review of existing risk frameworks and evidence on family violence screening, risk assessment, and risk management. It focuses on intimate partner violence and its intersection with child abuse. As the framework progresses, more detailed guides for other forms of violence will be developed. Consultation is now closed... Read more 
Also available: Submissions summary; Workshop summary

Johnson, M. (2015).
Public awareness of prevalence of unwanted sexual behaviour. Research New Zealand.
Summary: This report details the results of a survey of n=1,076 New Zealand residents aged 18 years and older. The survey was conducted on behalf of the Male Survivors of Sexual Abuse Trust (MSSAT)... Read more

Steiner-Fox, H.W. (2016).
Rates of cyberbullying among women and men in New Zealand in 2015 (NZAVS Policy Brief, 2016: 2). School of Psychology, University of Auckland.
Summary: The New Zealand Attitudes and Values Study (NZAVS) asked participants aged 18 years and over whether or not they had experienced cyberbullying. The data reported is drawn from the 2014/2015 wave of data collection, from a random sample of 15,822 New Zealanders... Read more

Kukutai, T. & Taylor, J. (Eds.). (2016).
Indigenous data sovereignty: Towards an agenda. Canberra, ACT: Australian National University.
Research monograph (Australian National University. Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research), no. 38
Summary: The twin problems of lack of reliable data and information on indigenous peoples and the biopiracy and misuse of their traditional knowledge and cultural heritage are issues that have been grappled with in the process of drafting and negotiating the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP)... Read more

Templeton, R. (2016).
Using IDI data to estimate fiscal impacts of better social sector performance (Analytical paper, 16/04). Wellington: New Zealand Treasury.
Summary: The analysis was undertaken as part of the work to update Treasury's long term fiscal modelling. As part of this a scenario analysis of the potential fiscal and non-fiscal benefits of social investment was undertaken and is described in 'The benefits of improved social sector performance', a detailed background paper to He Tirohanga Mokopuna, the Treasury's long-term fiscal statement (LTFS). The paper provides information about how Treasury used data from SNZ's Integrated Data infrastructure (IDI) to inform the scenario analysis... Read more 
 
Journal articles

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Campbell, L.M., & Jones, S.J. (2016).

An innovative response to family violence after the Canterbury earthquake events: Canterbury Family Violence Collaboration's achievements, successes, and challenges.
Australasian Journal of Disaster and Trauma Studies, 20 (People in Disasters Special Issue): 89-100. (Open access).
Summary: There has been an increase in the reported incidents of family violence, sexual violence and child abuse following the 2010 and 2011 earthquake events in Canterbury, New Zealand. These increases have occurred both in immediate- and longer-term timeframes following the earthquakes, in line with previous research findings concerning an international range of post-disaster settings. Challenging events like the Canterbury earthquakes and series of aftershocks highlight the importance of, and provide the catalyst for, strengthening connections and working with various communities of interest to explore new ways of responding to the complex issue of family violence. It was within this context that the Canterbury Family Violence Collaboration emerged and began implementing a range of responses... Read more

True, J. (2013).
Gendered violence in natural disasters: Learning from New Orleans, Haiti and Christchurch.
Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work, 25(2): 78-89. (Open access).
Summary: Why are women so vulnerable to violence and death as a result of disaster compared with men? This article investigates how global environmental forces in the form of natural disasters from floods, droughts and famines to earthquakes, tsunamis and hurricanes affect women and men differently. Disasters are known to have direct and indirect impacts on gender-based violence particularly against women and girls, revealing a pattern of heightened violence and vulnerability in their aftermath.... Read more

Caspi, A., Houts, R.M., Belsky, D.W., Harrington, H., Hogan, S., Ramrakha, S., Poulton, R., & Moffitt, T.E. (2016).
Childhood forecasting of a small segment of the population with large economic burden.
Nature Human Behaviour, Advance online publication, 12 December 2016. (Open access).
Summary: Policymakers are interested in early-years interventions to ameliorate childhood risks. They hope for improved adult outcomes in the long run that bring a return on investment. The size of the return that can be expected partly depends on how strongly childhood risks forecast adult outcomes, but there is disagreement about whether childhood determines adulthood. The authors integrated multiple nationwide administrative databases and electronic medical records with the four-decade-long Dunedin birth cohort study to test child-to-adult prediction in a different way.... Read more

Grant, A. (2016).
Vulnerable children act 2014: Legislation note.
Te Mata Koi: Auckland University Law Review, 22: 401-408.
Summary: Firstly, this legislation note considers the legislative scheme for protecting children prior to the enactment of the Vulnerable Children Act (VCA). Secondly, it details the background and legislative process that culminated in the VCA becoming law. Thirdly, it analyses the key features and implications of the VCA... Read more

Lorigan, T., Snell, D., & Robertson, N. (2016).
Sex, drugs and smashing skulls: Violence, gender and hyper-masculinity in a gang community of practice.
Australian Community Psychologist, 28(1): 9-23 (Open access)
Summary: The authors examine how masculinity, specifically hyper-masculinity, is constructed from the perspective of a boy growing up within a white power motorcycle gang environment. One photo and three narratives are employed as the empirical material for analysis. The autoethnographic narratives are written in chronological order from ages 10-13 focusing on the first author's first time experiences with violence, drugs, and sex respectively. The gang is conceptualised as a community of practice... Read more

Mowat, K., Coombes, L., & Busch, R. (2016).
Resituating masculinity and power in preventing child sexual abuse.
Australian Community Psychologist, 2016, 28(1): 24-45. (Open access).
Summary: While attempts to address the perpetration of child sexual abuse often reduce focus to individual, psychopathological and actuarial levels of analysis in psychology, contextual understandings of gendered power relations are largely unexamined. A statistical focus on the prevalence and risk of sex offenders to the community excludes critical, contextual and discursive understandings of how masculinity is practised... Read more

McLeod, G.F.H., Horwood, L.J., & Fergusson, D.M. (2016).
Adolescent depression, adult mental health and psychosocial outcomes at 30 and 35 years.
Psychological Medicine, 46(7): 1401-1412.
Summary: There is limited information on long-term outcomes of adolescent depression. This study examines the associations between severity of depression in adolescence and a broad array of adult functional outcomes. Data were gathered as part of the Christchurch Health and Development Study... Read more

Oak, E.B. (2016).
A minority report for social work? The Predictive Risk Model (PRM) and the Tuituia Assessment Framework in addressing the needs of New Zealand's vulnerable children.
British Journal of Social Work, 46(5): 1208-1223.
Summary: This article examines the viability of the Risk Predictor Model (RPM) and its counterpart the actuarial risk assessment (ARA) tool in the form of the Tuituia Assessment Framework to address child vulnerability in New Zealand. In doing so, it suggests that these types of risk-assessment tools fail to address issues of contingency and complexity at the heart of the relationship-based nature of social work practice... Read more

Rayner-Thomas, M.M. Dixon, R., Fanslow, J., & Tse, C. (2016).
The impact of domestic violence on the workplace.
New Zealand Journal of Employment Relations, 41(1): 8-21 (Open access).
Summary: This study explored the impact of domestic violence on absenteeism, worker productivity, and workplace responses to domestic violence, based on a survey of New Zealand employees... Read more

Wilson, D. (2016).
Transforming the normalisation and intergenerational whānau (family) violence.
Journal of Indigenous Wellbeing | Te Mauri - Pimatisiwin, 1(2): 32-43. (Open access).

Summary: Whānau are the fabric of any indigenous community and society. For many whānau violence has become a normalised way of functioning, and persists as a way for its members interacting generation after generation. Māori (indigenous peoples of Aotearoa [New Zealand]), similar to other colonised indigenous peoples, are challenged by the widespread and corrosive nature of violence within their whānau and wider community... Read more
 
International 

David-Ferdon, C. Vivolo-Kantor, A.M., Dahlberg, L.L., Marshall, K.J., Rainford, N., & Hall, J.E. (2016).
A comprehensive technical package for the prevention of youth violence and associated risk behaviors. Atlanta, GA: National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Summary: This technical package represents a select group of strategies based on the best available evidence to help communities and states sharpen their focus on prevention activities with the greatest potential to prevent youth violence and its consequences... Read more

Our Watch. (2016).
Community based prevention of violence against women and their children: A toolkit for practitioners. Melbourne, Vic.: Our Watch.
Summary: This toolkit is a suite of materials for practitioners wishing to work with communities to prevent violence against women. It details a primary prevention approach, that is, one that aims to change attitudes, behaviours and practices to stop violence from occurring in the first place. It describes a process and provides tools for working with the community on prevention of violence against women and their children... Read more

Joyce, A. Foenander, E., Russo, A., & Iqbal, N. (2016).
An evaluation of the preventing violence against women and their children in culturally and linguistically diverse communities project. Melbourne, Vic.: Centre for Social Impact, Swinburne University of Technology.
Summary: Our Watch commissioned the Centre for Social Impact, Swinburne University, to conduct an independent evaluation of this project. The evaluation aimed to provide specific insights into the key drivers and barriers encountered in addressing violence against women in culturally diverse communities... Read more

Family Law Council. (2016).
Family Law Council report to the Attorney-General on families with complex needs and the intersection of the Family Law and child protection systems: Final report - June 2016 (Terms 3, 4 & 5). Canberra, ACT: Family Law Council.
Summary: This report concentrates on opportunities to enhance collaboration and information sharing within the family law system as well as other support services such as child protection, mental health, family violence, drug and alcohol, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and migrant services... Read more

Quadara, A., & Hunter, C. (2016).
Principles of trauma-informed approaches to child sexual abuse: A discussion paper. Sydney, NSW: Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
Summary: This paper describes the emergence of trauma-informed care in both the international and Australian service contexts. Since the early 2000s, human services, criminal justice and community welfare services have endeavored to incorporate an understanding of trauma into their organisational structures, treatment services and day-to-day practices - that is, to become trauma-informed... Read more

Stavrou, E., Poynton, S., & Weatherburn, D. (2016).
Intimate partner violence against women in Australia: Related factors and help-seeking behaviours. Sydney: NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research.
Crime and Justice Bulletin, no. 200. (Open access).
Summary: To determine which factors were associated with (1) female experiences of intimate partner violence (IPV), (2) female reporting of physical or sexual assault by an intimate partner to the police and (3) females seeking help and support after experiencing IPV.... Read more

Home Office. (2016).
Ending violence against women and girls strategy: 2016 - 2020. London: Home Office.
Summary: This refreshed UK strategy is a call to action for all over the next four years to work together to achieve a shared vision by 2020... Read more
Supporting this strategy are the following documents:
VAWG: Supporting local commissioning and
VAWG: National statement of expectations 

Howarth, E., Moore, T.H.M., Welton, N.J., Lewis, N., Stanley, N., MacMillan, H., Shaw, A., Hester, M., Bryden, P., & Feder, G. (2016).
IMPRoving Outcomes for children exposed to domestic ViolencE (IMPROVE): An evidence synthesis. National Institute for Health Research.
Public Health Research, Issue 10. (Open access).
Summary: The evidence base regarding the acceptability, clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of interventions to improve outcomes for children exposed to DVA is underdeveloped. There is an urgent need for more high-quality studies, particularly trials, that are designed to produce actionable, generalisable findings that can be implemented in real-world settings and that can inform decisions about which interventions to commission and scale...  Read more

Journal articles

Contact your local library for full text access to articles which are not freely available online.

Campbell, K.A., Olson, L.M., Keenan, H., & Morrow, S.L. (2017).
What happened next: Interviews with mothers after a finding of child maltreatment in the household.
Qualitative Health Research, 27(2): 155 - 169.
Summary: Child Protective Services (CPS) identifies over 700,000 victims of child maltreatment in the United States annually. Research shows that risk factors for these children may persist despite CPS intervention. Mothers have unique and often untapped perspectives on the experiences and consequences of CPS intervention that may inform future practice.... Read more

Castellvi, P., Miranda-Mendizábal, A., Parés-Badell, O., Almenara, J., Alonso, I., Blasco, M.J., ... Alonso, J. (2016).
Exposure to violence, a risk for suicide in youths and young adults: A meta-analysis of longitudinal studies.
Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, Advance online publication, 20 December 2016.
Summary: This systematic review provides an estimate of the risk of interpersonal violence exposure and suicide...  Read more

Chan, T.M.S., Teram, E., & Shaw, I. (2017).
Balancing methodological rigor and the needs of research participants: A debate on alternative approaches to sensitive research.
Qualitative Health Research, 27(2): 260 - 270.
Summary: Despite growing consideration of the needs of research participants in studies related to sensitive issues, discussions of alternative ways to design sensitive research are scarce. Structured as an exchange between two researchers who used different approaches in their studies with childhood sexual abuse survivors... Read more

Hester, M., & Lilley, S-J. (2016).
Rape investigation and attrition in acquaintance, domestic violence and historical rape cases.
Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling, Advance online publication, 17 October 2016. (Open access).
Summary: The paper looks at the different attrition trajectories of rape cases involving acquaintance rape, rape in the context of domestic violence by intimate (ex)partners and in the context of historical child sexual abuse. Rape in the contexts of domestic violence or historical child sexual abuse have not received much separate attention in previous studies... Read more

Lilley, S-J., Hester, M., & Turner, W. (2016).
Evaluation of European domestic violence perpetrator programmes: Toward a model for designing and reporting evaluations related to perpetrator treatment interventions.
International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, Advance online publication, 24 November 2016. (Open access).
Summary: This article is based on a review of 60 evaluations (published and unpublished) relating to European domestic violence perpetrator programmes, involving 7,212 programme participants across 12 countries... Read more

Moulds, L., Day, A., Mildred, H., Miller, P., & Casey, S. (2016).
Adolescent violence towards parents: The known and unknowns.
Australian & New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, 37: 547-557.
Summary: Adolescent violence towards parents is one of the most poorly understood forms of family violence despite it being relatively common. This paper presents an overview of current knowledge about adolescent violence
towards parents for practitioners who work with families, considering issues around definition, prevalence, impacts, and the key characteristics of perpetrators... Read more

O'Brien, C. (2016).
An angel at your table: Mentoring and domestic violence recovery.
Australian Community Psychologist, 28(1): 46-58. (Open access).
Summary: There are many services that assist women in recovery from domestic violence. This can be a lengthy process and requires sensitive and skilled interventions. This article describes an internal evaluation of an initiative that uses mentoring as a model of support, the Doncare Angel for Women Network (DAWN)... Read more

Powell, A., Webster, K. (2016).
Cultures of gendered violence: An integrative review of measures of attitudinal support for violence against women.
Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology, Advance online publication, 27 October 2016.
Summary: National and international research has repeatedly identified the specific gendered nature and context of women's victimisation of violence, whereby women are disproportionately victims of sexual and partner violence and overwhelmingly at the hands of known male perpetrators. As such, violence against women warrants a targeted and substantial focus, within overall violence reduction and prevention efforts. In the Australian policy context, there is an emerging and influential focus on attitudes towards violence against women as key targets for primary prevention and as foci for monitoring progress in reducing this violence... Read more

Steele, S.M., Everett, B.G., Hughes, T.L. (2017).
Influence of perceived femininity, masculinity, race/ethnicity, and socioeconomic status on intimate partner violence among sexual-minority women.
Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Advance online publication, 6 January 2017.
Summary: Sexual-minority women (SMW) are believed to experience comparable or higher rates of intimate partner violence (IPV) than heterosexual women. In this study, we expand upon existing research by examining the intersectional relationships among self-perceptions of femininity and masculinity, race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status (SES), and IPV... Read more
In the news 
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New child & youth advocacy service, VOYCE - Whakarongo Mai, to start April 2017 - 1 Feb, 2017
The Government has announced a new youth advocacy service, VOYCE - Whakarongo...

Privacy Commissioner surveying NGOs on requirement for individual client level data - 31 Jan, 2017
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner is conducting an inquiry into the...

ACC investing $1.3 million in Gandhi Nivas working with perpetrators - 25 Jan, 2017
ACC will be investing $1.3 million over the next three years in Gandhi Nivas to...

International resources on primary prevention of violence against women and their children - 24 Jan, 2017
A number of resources have been published by the United Nations and violence...

Police release summary of report on Livingstone filicides-suicide - 19 Jan, 2017
In December 2016, the Otago Daily times (ODT) received a summary of the NZ...

Government continues work on integrated data and "social investment" - 18 Jan, 2017
Government and some researchers continue to explore the use of administrative...

Information on applying for a Harmful Digital Communications order - 11 Jan, 2017
The Ministry of Justice has updated their website with new information about...

Know the danger signs: It's not OK launches new resources on lethality - 10 Jan, 2017
In December, the It's not OK Campaign launched new resources highlighting signs...

New Healthy Ageing Strategy released; related resources - 10 Jan, 2017
The Ministry of Health released its Healthy Ageing Strategy in December 2016....

Further update on cross-government work programme on family and sexual violence - 10 Jan, 2017
The Government has provided an update on the cross-government family and sexual...

New Prime Minister announces changes to cabinet and ministerial appointments - 19 Dec, 2016
The new Prime Minister, Bill English, has announced his cabinet with some...

Police launch survey for victims of sexual assault - 19 Dec, 2016
NZ Police published new content on their website to support victims of sexual...

Upcoming events
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Check for  recently added events 

13 February 2017 *NEW*
Universal challenges, local solutions? Connecting the dots to address violence against women - Free public lecture in association with Public Health Summer School
Wellington
 
13 - 14 February 2017 *NEW*
National Wraparound Hui - A gathering of experts and wraparound programmes from the USA and NZ
Wellington

15-17 February 2017
Community Development Conference
Auckland

5 March 2017 *NEW*
Children's Day - Te Rā o te Tamariki
Events around Aotearoa New Zealand

6 - 8 March 2017 *NEW*
He Manawa Whenua Indigenous Research Conference
Hamilton

8 March 2017 *NEW*
International Women's Day
Events around Aotearoa New Zealand

9-12 March 2017
Te Kāinga te Ükaipö - Promise of Home - NZAP Conference Post-conference  workshop (13 March 2017)
Nelson

3 - 5 April 2017 *NEW*
Creating Transformative Change in Practice and Organisations - Three day workshop
Palmerston North

21-22 April 2017 *UPDATED*
The Culture of Family and Sexual Violence Conference
Queenstown

18 - 19 May 2017 *NEW*
Working With Parents' Anger. Stage One: Taking the heat off the child - Training workshop
Auckland

26 - 28 September 2017 *UPDATED*
Health and Domestic Violence Conference
San Francisco, California
Save the date, registration opens April 2017