Pari Kawau App

Description Pari Kawau is an interactive app created to support the Pae Tata Pae Tawhiti brief and early intervention model; and practitioners and students seeking to enhance the development of their clinical and cultural practice skills. Allowing practitioners to provide and receive observed practice feedback, helping them effectively enhance a range of clinical and cultural […]

Ngā Kōmata o te Rangi Māori Mental Health Hui Report 2019

Description The “Ngā Kōmata-o-te-Rangi: Hauora Hinengaro Māori Mental Health and Addiction Hui” was a tenacious call to Māori to take a proactive stance for the mental health and wellness of our Māori people, ngā mana whenua o Aotearoa. The call to hui focused on realising a vision of – Oranga Tangata, Oranga Whānau, Oranga Taiao, […]

He Puna Whakaata: Therapeutic Activities to Guide Change II

Description The purpose of He Puna Whakaata is to contribute to positive outcomes for Māori. This resource describes activities that access some aspects of mātauranga Māori to be utilised in spaces where Māori seek support and healing, including; the primary health sector, whānau ora, addiction and mental health sectors and any other healing space. Practitioners […]

He Manaaki Tangata: Tikanga Informed Guideline Adapted for Mental Health Services, and Acute Mental Health Units

Description This tikanga informed practice guideline has been adapted to guide health professionals employed within mental health services.  Targeted toward health professional practice when supporting Māori tangata whaiora and their whānau in mental health services, and especially so in the acute mental health unit.  Founded on Māori values and practices, Te Tiriti o Waitangi, as […]

Kia hora te marino – Trauma Informed Care for Māori

Description A national approach to Trauma Informed Care in Aotearoa (New Zealand) relevant to Māori (Indigenous people) must consider the effects of historical, cumulative, intergenerational and situational trauma. Seminal to this is an understanding of a pre-European Māori society where whānau violence was not acceptable nor common (Cooper, 2012; Durie, 2001; Jenkins & Harte, 2011; […]

Seeking Solutions to Being Restricted: A Māori-Centred Grounded Theory of Māori, Mental Illness and Health Services

  Description The status of Māori mental health in New Zealand has increasingly deteriorated,despite radical changes to mental health service delivery and modern improvements in treatment. The question posed in this doctoral researchis:What is occurring amongst Māori with mental illness and mental health services? The research applied qualitative methods. Glaserian grounded theory, informed by a […]

He Puna Whakaata: Therapeutic Activities to Guide Change

2016 by Andre McLachlan & Terri Huriwai Description The purpose of He Puna Whakaata is to contribute to positive outcomes for Māori, particularly those experiencing addiction and or mental health-related conditions. Practitioners who will read and use this resource should already take an integrated approach to health and wellbeing and have more than a basic […]

Indigenous Insight, Inspiring Innovation II

2016 by T Cassidy & K Pipi Description Indigenous Insights II provides a selection of stories which shares some of the struggles and achievements amongst six people who were willing to courageously share their own kōrero or the kōrero of their whānau member to provide hope to others. It is in the kōrero and by […]