Alcohol-related injury: An evidence-based literature review Last Publication Date: 01 Feb 2012 This review focuses on research that considers the role of alcohol in causing injury and the effectiveness of educational and environmental strategies in preventing alcohol-related injury.…
Mental Health and Addiction Service Delivery: Implications of Emerging Practice Last Publication Date: 01 Feb 2012 This brief review has been undertaken to support the Ministry of Health and Mental Health Commission in developing their Service Development Plan over 2011/12. The objectives…
Finding the best way to work with children and young people: Good engagement and giving them a voice Last Publication Date: 01 Feb 2012 Social Work Now, Issue 49, pages 6-12. Frontline Child, Youth and Family social workers discuss the meaning and reality of engagement with young people. This key skill…
Listening to experts: Children and young people’s participation Last Publication Date: 01 Feb 2012 Social Work Now, Issue 49, pages 30-39. Social workers who want their practice to be more child centred must learn to find new and better ways to listen to…
Telling a child’s story: creating a words and pictures story book to tell children why they are in care Last Publication Date: 01 Feb 2012 Social Work Now, Issue 49, pages 13-20. Open Home Foundation, an organisation that works with children and young people in care uses a story book approach to…
The Alcohol Purchasing Patterns of Heavy Drinkers Last Publication Date: 01 Feb 2012 In 2011 the Ministry of Health commissioned research to investigate the alcohol purchasing patterns of heavy drinkers. The research informed consideration of a minimum pricing regime…
Tai Aroha Last Publication Date: 01 Jan 2011 A formative evaluation of the 'Tai Aroha' residential community-based programme for high-risk offenders (2012). Since October 2007, the number of community-based sentencing options available to the judiciary…
Strengthening Our Foundations: Service user roles in the mental health workforce Last Publication Date: 01 Jan 2011 The research aims promote the value of service users roles within the mental health sector and to find out what is needed to strengthen those roles.…
The Impacts of Liquor Outlets in Manukau City Report No. 2 - Community stakeholder views on the impacts of liquor outlets in Manukau City Last Publication Date: 01 Jan 2011 Recent substantial increases in the number of liquor outlets have been matched by an escalation in community concern about alcohol-related harm. This report presents the results…
The Impacts of Liquor Outlets in Manukau City Report No. 1 - A review of the international academic literature and New Zealand media reports Last Publication Date: 01 Jan 2011 There has been significant recent debate over the impacts of liquor outlets on communities in New Zealand. This report reviews two sides to the published debate…