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

Formative evaluation report: Specialist sexual harm services

 

Safety of children in care: Quarterly report
Wellington, New Zealand: Oranga Tamariki, Ministry for Children, 2019
Safety of children in care, Quarter 1, July - September 2018
Safety of children in care, Quarter 2, October - December 2018
Summary: The Safety of Children in Care Unit is responsible for reviewing and reporting on all findings of abuse related to all children in care. Children in care are defined as being subject to a custodial order or legal agreement under the Oranga Tamariki Act. For this review all placement arrangements are considered including those where children remain at home and those where they live independently... Read more 

 

What makes a good life? Children and young people's views on wellbeing
Wellington, New Zealand: Office of the Children's Commissioner, 2019
Summary: This report was a collaboration between the Office of the Children's Commissioner and Oranga Tamariki-Ministry for Children, supported by the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. In October and November 2018, these organisations asked the views of children and young people on what wellbeing means to them. Their views were sought in order to inform the Child and Youth Wellbeing Strategy (the Strategy), which is designed to drive government action on child wellbeing... Read more 

 

Elephant in the therapy room: Counselling experiences of ethnic immigrant women survivors of family violence in Aotearoa, New Zealand
Shila Nair.
Research portfolio for Master's Degree in Counselling, University of Auckland, 2017
Summary: Asian, African and Middle Eastern communities are by and large collectivist in nature. For most women from such communities, leaving abusive marital relationships can be extremely daunting as they become mindful of cultural obligations and compulsions that accompany collectivist traditions that continue to enforce the sanctity of the institution of marriage over individual safety. One obligation in such cultures is to maintain family and social honour which could irrevocably be ruined if a wife were to leave her husband.... Read more 

Journal articles

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Do data from child protective services and the police enhance modelling of perinatal risk for paediatric abusive head trauma? A retrospective case-control study
Patrick Kelly, John M D Thompson, Santuri Rungan, Shanthi Ameratunga, Timothy Jelleyman, Teuila Percival, Hinemoa Elder and Edwin A Mitchell
BMJ Open, 2019, 9: e024199 
Summary: This study is a case-control study examining risk factors for paediatric abusive head trauma (AHT), using data collected well before the outcome of interest took place. This study examined data from multiple sources, matching police and child protective service records for families with perinatal health records for newborn babies... Read more 

 

He Waipuna Koropupü: Taranaki Māori wellbeing and suicide prevention
Ngaropi Cameron, Leonie Pihama, Jocelyn Millard, Awhina Cameron and Bry Kopu
Journal of Indigenous Wellbeing: Te Mauri - Pimatisiwin, 2017, 2(2): 105-113 
Summary: This research project aimed to explore and share a knowledge base that could inform practice in relation to Taranaki Māori suicide. The project was grounded upon the notion that through Taranaki knowledge and information we can make significant changes in our approach to life and to our whānau relationships... Read more 

 

The Ngātahi project: Competency development for the vulnerable children's workforce
Russell Wills, Bernice Gabriel and Kay Morris Matthews
Policy Quarterly, 2019, 15(1): 73-79 
Summary: Ngätahi is a three-year project aiming to identify and embed the additional competencies needed for the children's workforce to work with families experiencing intimate partner violence, child abuse and neglect, mental illness, addictions, poverty and poor supports. Mäori tamariki (children) and whänau are over-represented in this client group. Collective impact, appreciative inquiry and a robust tikanga inform the project... Read more  

 

Stories of survival and resilience: An enquiry into what helps tamariki and rangatahi through whānau violence
Anna Walters and Fred Seymour
New Zealand Journal of Psychology, 2017, 46(3): 80-87 
Summary: Family violence is overrepresented amongst Māori and has significant consequences for children. Research on family violence and children, both internationally and locally, has been predominantly deficit-focused. This research focused instead on protective factors and resilience. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with professionals who work with Māori tamariki/rangatahi who have experienced whānau violence, with a focus on their views on resilience and interventions with Māori to enhance resilience...  Read more
  

"What I reckon is, is that like the love you give to your kids they'll give to someone else and so on and so on": Whanaungatanga and mātauranga Māori in practice
Jade Le Grice, Virginia Braun and Margaret Wetherell
New Zealand Journal of Psychology, 2017, 46(3): 88-97 
Summary: Mātauranga Māori (knowledge and wisdom pertaining to Māori, the Indigenous people of New Zealand) has long been suppressed and invalidated in psychological paradigms, and the practice of whanaungatanga (relationships, connection, and practices among a family collective) undermined in colonising practice. Utilising a mana wāhine methodology (an approach  that privileges Māori women's perspectives and analyses) and semi-structured interviews with 43 participants, we explore contemporary mātauranga Māori pertaining to whānau (extended family) practices. Inter-related yet conceptually distinct aspects of whanaungatanga were elucidated...  Read more

How could central government better respond to sexual harm in the public service
Carrie Buckmaster
Policy Quarterly, 2018, 14(4): 59-67>
Summary: This article draws attention to the nature and impact of sexual harm in the New Zealand public service. It examines the scope and substance of official advice and tools available to public managers when responding to incidents of sexual harm, and builds a set of recommendations for central government... Read more 

 

Social security that works for families
Michael O'Brien
Policy Quarterly, 2019, 15(1): 10-16 
Summary: There have been significant changes in employment and in family structure over the last half century. This article explores some of the social security changes required to develop a welfare system that is both responsive to and reflective of those broader changes and more effective in providing support that is timely, and effective in providing relief from poverty... Read more