Surveying social workers: Don Smith and Pete Ellis discuss the Towards Wellbeing suicide prevention programme from social workers’ perspective Last Publication Date: 01 Aug 2006 Social Work Now, Issue 34, pages 4-10. The Towards Wellbeing (TWB) programme began with the publication of the best practice guidelines Towards Wellbeing: Responding to the needs…
New Zealand Suicide Prevention Strategy 2006-2016 Last Publication Date: 02 Jun 2006 The New Zealand Suicide Prevention Strategy 2006-2016 was launched in June 2006 to provide an all-ages approach to suicide prevention. It builds on the gains made…
More than an apple a day: Children’s right to good health Last Publication Date: 01 Jun 2006 Health is one of the key areas affecting a child’s development, with repercussions for almost every other area of life including education, employment, justice and family…
A health profile of young Asian New Zealanders who attend secondary school Last Publication Date: 01 Apr 2006 This report presents selected findings for young ‘Asian’ New Zealanders from the Youth 2000 national secondary school youth health survey.
Where do they go? Roy Bergquist reviews centrally funded treatment options for antisocial behaviours in New Zealand youth Last Publication Date: 01 Apr 2006 Social Work Now, Issue 33, pages 12-15. The treatment of antisocial behaviour in adolescents is a matter for debate in this country. Many of the methods used…
Aggregates and individual wage earnings in LEED Last Publication Date: 01 Jan 2005 Longitudinal analyses with continuous repeated outcomes provide fuller insight into population and individual behaviour over time. Insights into processes of social change can thus be greatly…
Tauawhitia te Wero: Embracing the Challenge: National mental health and addiction workforce development plan 2006-2009 Last Publication Date: 02 Dec 2005 The Ministry of Health funded the Centre for Health Services Research and Policy (The University of Auckland) to produce a research report on general practitioners’ (GP)…
The Cost of Suicide to Society Last Publication Date: 02 Dec 2005 The Cost of Suicide report estimates the cost of the 460 suicides and 5095 attempted suicides in 2002 to total $1,381,492,000 - nearly $1.4 billion. Each…
Strategy for Evaluating Local Government Legislation Last Publication Date: 01 Dec 2005 Local government's roles, responsibilities, powers and accountabilities are defined by legislation. In 2001 and 2002 three new local government Acts were passed: the Local Government Act 2002…
Working on the frontline: Sue Lightfoot discusses the impacts of secondary traumatic stress Last Publication Date: 01 Dec 2005 Social Work Now, Issue 32, pages 28-32. There has been increasing attention over the past several years to the effects on staff of working in emergency situations,…
