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…
Multi-Agency Liquor Enforcement study Last Publication Date: 01 Mar 2008 This study, commissioned with funding from the Cross Departmental Research Pool, sought to test the effectiveness of targeted multi-agency enforcement at reducing the harm caused by…
Evaluation of the Christchurch city one-way door intervention Last Publication Date: 01 Jan 2008 The Christchurch Central Business District (CBD) Alcohol Accord (Alcohol Accord) was implemented from October 2006 to March 2007 to reduce alcohol-related violence and crime in the…
Healthy Family Relationships: A review of the research literature to contribute to the Campaign for Action on Family Violence Last Publication Date: 01 Nov 2007 This literature review aimed to find evidence of those attitudes and behaviours that promote peaceful and harmonious, rather than violent and highly conflicted, family relationships. The…
Employment Relationship Problems: Costs, Benefits and Choices Last Publication Date: 01 Aug 2007 The Employment Relations Act was introduced in 2000 to provide the framework for regulating relationships between employers and employees. The Act recognises "that employment relationships must…
Social Work Now! Issue 36: The Family Group Conference Last Publication Date: 01 May 2007 This issue of Social Work Now is a special issue for the Child Youth and Family conference "Coming Home - Te Hokinga Mai". Family group conferencing is at the…
Family mediation: Evaluation of the pilot Last Publication Date: 01 Apr 2007 I am pleased to release this report on the Family Mediation Pilot. Many people have contributed to the pilot and I would like to thank you…
