SPEaR Good Practice Guidelines 2008 Last Publication Date: 01 Jun 2008 The Social Policy Evaluation and Research Committee (SPEaR) was established by Government in 2001. The SPEaR Terms of Reference included a specific function to promote the…
Literature Review on Models and Efficacy of Illegal Drug Social Marketing Campaigns Last Publication Date: 14 May 2008 The Ministry of Health has identified a social marketing campaign as one potential way to contribute to a reduction in the harm associated with the demand…
Monitoring Tobacco Use in New Zealand Last Publication Date: 02 May 2008 Smoking is a leading cause of preventable morbidity and mortality in New Zealand and is a major contributor to health inequalities. The need for collecting accurate…
Raising the Odds? Gambling behaviour and neighbourhood access to gambling venues in New Zealand Last Publication Date: 02 May 2008 This report presents the key results of a study that investigated whether people's gambling behaviour was associated with their local gambling environment.This study found that there…
Tobacco Trends 2007: A brief update on monitoring indicators Last Publication Date: 02 May 2008 Tobacco Trends is an annual monitoring publication reporting on Tobacco use behaviours. Indicators reported on annually include smoking prevalence, tobacco consumption and supply and tobacco use…
Maternity Services Consumer Satisfaction Survey 2007 Last Publication Date: 01 May 2008 In 2007 the Ministry of Health commissioned a survey of approximately 3,000 women who had recently given birth to evaluate their level of satisfaction with the…
Complexity and social work theory and practice Last Publication Date: 01 Apr 2008 Social Work Now, Issue 39, pages 15-20. Most social workers, wherever they work, deal with complex life situations in their practice. If situations were not difficult in…
Levels of meaning and the case for theoretical integration Last Publication Date: 01 Apr 2008 Social Work Now, Issue 39, pages 21-28. Cognitive therapy tends to focus on how the client’s thoughts distort reality and lead to anxiety and depression. But what…
Practicing place: everyday contexts in child and family welfare Last Publication Date: 01 Apr 2008 Social Work Now, Issue 39, pages 29-37. Place, and its corollary, displacement, lie at the centre of child welfare practice. Child neglect, the issue that more than…
Complex approaches to wicked problems: Applying Sharon Berlin’s analysis of “dichotomous thinking” Last Publication Date: 01 Apr 2008 Social Work Now, Issue 39, pages 38-48. This article will consider one approach to ‘thinking about thinking’ as developed in Sharon Berlin’s early but seminal paper on…
