Bringing Culture Into Care

Bringing Culture Into Care
Author: Bradford Haami
Publisher: Huia Publishers
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2019
Genre: Health care reform
ISBN: 1775503690

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Ngā Kūaha

Ngā Kūaha
Author: Wiremu NiaNia
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2024-08-30
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1040114628

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Ngā Kūaha: Voices and Visions in Māori Healing and Psychiatry explores what it means to hear voices and see visions from the perspectives of Māori healer Wiremu NiaNia and psychiatrist Allister Bush. Wiremu explains Ngā Kūaha as referring to doorways and offers entranceways into Māori knowledge about wairua (spirituality) handed down by his forebears and other Māori sources. The authors provide historical examples of Western mystical experiences and contrasting Western psychiatric and psychological explanations of voices and visions as hallucinations. Further chapters focus on narratives and perspectives from people who have experienced voices and visions, and have had interactions with mental health services, told from multiple viewpoints; individual, whānau (family), Māori healing and psychiatry. The benefits of joint Māori healing and psychiatry approaches on wellbeing are examined. Drawing on their 18-year partnership, Wiremu and Allister highlight the harmful colonial impact of psychiatry in suppressing Māori views of voices and visions. They describe ways of working together in clinical practice to address this history of injustice and how to identify whether distressing perceptual experiences may represent Māori cultural experiences, psychiatric or psychological symptoms or all of these. This book advocates for practices that enable genuine partnerships between Māori healers, other wairua practitioners and mental health clinicians in order to improve the mental health and spiritual care of Māori and perhaps other peoples.

Contemplative Practices for Sustaining Wellness

Contemplative Practices for Sustaining Wellness
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 382
Release: 2022-09-12
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9004527346

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Contemplative Practices for Sustaining Wellness: priorities for research and education presents what we learned from research on wellness, intense emotions and health issues together with uses of complementary medicine, mindfulness practices, and interventions for self-care, and caring for others.

Kāinga

Kāinga
Author: Paul Tapsell
Publisher: Bridget Williams Books
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2022-01-19
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1988587557

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‘Dare we elevate kāinga as a way of achieving regionalised ecological accountability, and in the process can we bring humanity back into balance with the universe?’ Through his own experience and the stories of his tīpuna, Paul Tapsell (Te Arawa, Tainui) charts the impact of colonisation on his people. Alienation from kāinga and whenua becomes a wider story of environmental degradation and system collapse. This book is an impassioned plea to step back from the edge. It is now up to the Crown, Tapsell writes, to accept the need for radical change. The ecological costs of colonisation are clear, and yet those same extractive and exploitative models remain foundational today. Only a complete step-change, one that embraces kāinga, can transform our lands and waterways, and potentially become a source of inspiration to the world.

Mauri Ora

Mauri Ora
Author: Mason Durie
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2001-01-01
Genre: Maori (New Zealand people)
ISBN: 9780195584189

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Mauri Ora outlines the relevance of culture, identity, and socio-economic factors to health. Mason Durie draws on many years of experience to bring fresh perspectives on Maori health, especially mental health. Not only is there a comprehensive clinical review of suicide, depression, and alcohol and drug misuse, but there is also a thorough exploration of the origins of poor health and strategies for improving health. As a sequel to Whaiora, Mauri Ora contains new insights into a Maori psychology and provides useful guidelines for practitioners, especially those who are involved in counselling Maori clients or establishing mental health services for Maori. In addition, population approaches to health, such as community and hapu development, are discussed within a framework that connects health to the broader aims of Maori development. Few books are able to accurately interpret the health perspectives of indigenous peoples, the viewpoints of clinicians, or the resolve of community leaders. Mauri Ora successfully brings together these many strands, presenting health as 'the dynamic interaction of people with each other as well as with wider cultural, social, economic, political and physical environments'.

People, Power, and Law

People, Power, and Law
Author: Alexander Gillespie
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 641
Release: 2022-05-05
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1509931627

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This book offers a unique insight into the key legal and social issues at play in New Zealand today. Tackling the most pressing issues, it tracks the evolution of these societal problems from 1840 to the present day. Issues explored include: illegal drugs; racism; the position of women; the position of Maori and free speech and censorship. Through these issues, the authors track New Zealand's evolution to one of the most famously liberal and tolerant societies in the world.

Ngā Kāhui Pou Launching Māori Futures

Ngā Kāhui Pou Launching Māori Futures
Author: Mason Durie
Publisher: Huia Publishers
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2003
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781877283987

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Professor Durie discusses traditions and customs and addresses contemporary needs in order to build development strategies for the launch of the Maori population into the new millenium. This work also suggests models for the development of other indigenous peoples.

Nga Tini Whetu

Nga Tini Whetu
Author: Mason Durie
Publisher: Huia Publishers
Total Pages: 620
Release: 2011-12-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1869694848

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Nga Tini Whetu � Navigating Maori Futures brings together twenty-five papers Mason Durie has presented at national and international conferences between 2004 and 2010. It discusses Maori moving towards a future involving new technologies, alliances, economies and levels of achievement and being equipped to respond to the changes in a way that enables Maori to prosper and live in a changing world as Maori. This book builds on and extends Mason Durie�s thinking in Nga Kahui Pou � Launching Maori Futures, published previously, and develops his thoughts on Maori positioning to best respond to unfolding events and trends. The papers discuss issues such as indigenous resilience and transformation, Maori potential and achievement, the Treaty of Waitangi and the national and global situation, health care and ethics, and future scenarios for Maori social and economic development and sustainability.

Old Black Cloud

Old Black Cloud
Author: Jacqueline Leckie
Publisher: Massey University Press
Total Pages: 390
Release: 2024-06-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 1991016735

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Mental depression is a serious issue in contemporary New Zealand, and it has an increasingly high profile. But during our history, depression has often been hidden under a long black cloud of denial that we have not always lived up to the Kiwi ideal of being pragmatic and have not always coped.Using historic patient records as a starting place, and informed by her own experience of depression, academic Jacqueline Leckie' s timely social history of depression in Aotearoa analyses its medical, cultural and social contexts through an historical lens. From detailing its links to melancholia and explaining its expression within Indigenous and migrant communities, this engrossing book interrogates how depression was medicalised and has been treated, and how New Zealanders have lived with it.