New Zealand Journal of Psychology articles from December 2002

New Zealand Journal of Psychology archives from December 2002

Clinical psychology in early 21st century Aotearoa/New Zealand: introduction to the special issue.
December 1, 2002... Clinical psychology is a thriving, rapidly evolving, professional and scientific discipline in Aotearoa/ New Zealand. There are 6 postgraduate clinical psychology training programmes conducted by the psychology departments of the major "older"...

Antisocial behaviours in New Zealand youth: prevalence, interventions and promising new directions.
December 1, 2002... Violent criminal acts and other serious crimes perpetrated by young people represent a complex and pervasive clinical problem with detrimental consequences for victims, the families of victims and perpetrators, and the larger community....

Relationship between reward-dominant response style and ratings of boys' conduct problems.
December 1, 2002... Basic personality dimensions thought to underlie common forms of child psychopathology are of interest in cognitive-behaviour therapy if related to reinforcement contingencies used in treatment. Reward dominance, or the tendency to be overly...

Working with children with complex presentations: a New Zealand approach.
December 1, 2002... This paper describes ongoing research and practice undertaken by Department of Child, Youth, and Family specialists and social workers Working with two children described as having high and complex needs. The paper first describes...

Where there's smoke there's fire: firesetting behaviour in children and adolescents.
December 1, 2002... The issue of juvenile firesetting has recently gained a considerable increase in media attention in New Zealand. A number of adolescents have been charged with arson, and in such cases they have caused great shock and cost to the community....

Abuse in dating relationships: young people's accounts of disclosure, non-disclosure, help-seeking and prevention education.
December 1, 2002... Across the Western world the research literature documents the onset of violence and abuse in adolescents' heterosexual dating relationships. Comparatively little research, however, has examined how young people deal with the aftermath of such...

Cognitive therapy and dialectical behaviour therapy: an integrative approach to the conceptualization of borderline personality disorder.
December 1, 2002... An individualised case conceptualisation helps organise complex information about a patient and is a blueprint for guiding treatment. Despite the development of manualised treatments for various disorders in cognitive behaviour therapy, there...

The impact of brief planned admissions on inpatient mental health unit utilisation for people with a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder.
December 1, 2002... People with a diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) are high users of inpatient mental health facility resources, often having both frequent and lengthy admissions. However, lengthy admissions are often regarded as sub-optimal and...

Asking about abuse during mental health assessments: clients' views and experiences.
December 1, 2002... This study reports the perceptions of 74 members of mental health consumer groups in New Zealand regarding their first assessment. Two-thirds of the participants reported sexual, physical or emotional abuse at some point in their lives, but...

Coping with catastrophe: organising psychological first-aiders.
December 1, 2002... The recent terrorist attacks in the United States of America and the widespread fears of anthrax poisoning and spreading of smallpox that followed, raise the question of how New Zealand health professionals might respond to the casualties were...

Bicultural partnerships in clinical training and practice in Aotearoa/New Zealand.
December 1, 2002... The basis for biculturalism in Aotearoa/New Zealand and the relevance of the Treaty of Waitangi to Maori mental health and clinical psychology training are discussed in this paper. Bicultural clinical training experiences are examined with...