New Zealand Journal of Psychology articles from December 1998

New Zealand Journal of Psychology archives from December 1998

Dynamic Assessment and Programme Planning For Students With Intellectual Disabilities.
December 1, 1998... This article explains how dynamic forms of assessment and intervention can be applied for the purpose of enabling students with intellectual disabilities to achieve their optimal level of functioning. Dynamic assessment refers to methods and...

Supervising Support Staff in Naturalistic Behavioural Intervention: process and outcome.
December 1, 1998... The effectiveness of "second generation" behavioural intervention was evaluated in a naturalistic therapy programme for adults with intellectual disabilities and behaviour problems. Naturalistic interventions involve lifestyle changes, altering...

Ageing and Lifelong Intellectual Disability: Implications for Policy.
December 1, 1998... This paper reviews gaps between services and needs and describes the parameters of public policy changes required if community agencies and families are to meet the needs of older adults with lifelong intellectual disabilities. A national...

A Consideration of "Community Response Programmes" for Disabilities or Other Issues of Common Concern.
December 1, 1998... The awareness of disability and diversity issues, and efforts to provide a more inclusive society with community-based services, have grown markedly in recent years. The university system, with mixed reactions, has grown more entrepreneurial -...

Memory Span as a Predictor of False Belief Understanding.
December 1, 1998... Recent work on the child's developing theory of mind has identified the development of working memory span as a factor which contributes to children's developing understanding of false belief (Keenan, Olson & Marini, 1998). Keenan et al. argued...

Critical Psychology - An Introduction.(Review)
December 1, 1998... Fox, D., and Prilleltensky, I. (Eds) (1997) London: Sage 362pp, ISBN 0 7619 5211 X What is critical psychology? Dictionaries of psychology can provide at least a cursory understanding of unfamiliar terms. However, for this question I...

Bodily Boundaries, Sexualised Genders and Medical Discourses.(Review)
December 1, 1998... de Ras, Marion and Grace, Victoria (Eds.) (1997) Palmerston North, Dunmore Press. 192pp. ISBN 0 86469 282 X ($39.95 paperback) This collection of writing on the body, medical discourses, and gender is a valuable addition to the work on the...