CHAW: Journal articles

Practice that reflects Māori values

• Pūrākau states of human development: A framework for social services (2011) - Pūrākau progresses states of human development beginning at atuatanga-i-mua and ending at atuatanga-a-muri, states that have been defined for the purpose of this essay as inherent connections to deity through whakapapa. Pūrākau is designed for use by practitioners who reflect Māori values and beliefs in social services and social work education whose main objective is effectiveness in social work among whānau in crisis.

Cultural Support Workers

• Exploring the role of cultural support workers in the New Zealand healthcare setting (2018) - The introduction of the community health worker (CHW), or cultural support worker (CSW) as they are more commonly known in Aotearoa New Zealand, is being increasingly seen as an effective strategy to engage with migrant communities and improve health outcomes.
• Cultural support workers in the Aotearoa New Zealand healthcare setting: Challenge and opportunity for health social work (2019) - In Aotearoa New Zealand, as elsewhere in the world, healthcare providers are seeking better ways to engage with increasingly ethnically and linguistically diverse communities. The use of cultural support workers (CSWs) to act as a bridge between services and such communities is proving to be an effective strategy for achieving this. For the social work profession, the advent of CSW roles presents both challenges and opportunities.

Aged Care

• Māori realities, intimacies, and sexual expressions: reconceptualising consent to uphold kaumātua mana in aged residential care (2023) - Increasingly, kaumātua (Māori elders) in Aotearoa (New Zealand) live apart from whānau (Māori extended family) in residential care, where policies are shaped by post-colonial legislation and ethical principles that privilege individual rights over Indigenous priorities and rights.

Mental Health

• Preliminary comparison between the roles of support workers and social workers in community mental health services (2009) - Within New Zealand there is a definite confusion between the role identity of social workers and support workers within community mental health services. Currently there appears to be a degree of confusion as to the distinguishing features of the two roles. The object of this preliminary investigation was to identify the similarities and differences within the two discipline areas.
• Understanding the Mental Health Support Worker Role in Aotearoa New Zealand: A Literature Review (2018) - The following literature review presents a historical context for the mental health support worker role in New Zealand and helps to shed some light on this undefined role in healthcare.
• Service user, whānau and peer support workers' perceptions of advance directives for mental health (2019) - Advance directives allow users of mental health services to make statements for their future care. In New Zealand, use of advance directives is supported by the Health and Disability Commissioner and was identified in the 2012 Blueprint as a key mechanism for service users to advocate for responses they find most helpful.
• Mental health support workers: Profession and professionalization (2018) - The mental health services in Aotearoa New Zealand, have changed significantly since the late 1990s. Community services have expanded, and the role of the mental health support worker has developed and grown to be a significant presence in the mental health and disability workforce. Despite this, the role is minimally discussed, both in Aotearoa New Zealand, and internationally.

Disability support

• Emotion work, interdependence and ‘care’ in relationships between physically disabled people and disability support workers (2018) - Disability support work has been associated with both exploitation of low-paid workers and oppression towards disabled people. In this article, we explore the creation of reciprocal and interdependent relationships between physically disabled people and their support workers.
• Replacing medical and social models of disability by a communities-based model of equal access for people of differing abilities: A Māori perspective (2006) - although the social model of disability which currently prevails in New Zealand is preferable in many ways to the earlier medical model, it is nevertheless based on a largely uni-dimensional concept of society and continues an established tradition of negativity.

Theories of Practice

• Comparing support work practice with the principles of psychosocial rehabilitation (2011) - As mental health support work continues to grow and develop as a healthcare discipline, practitioners in the field are continuously seeking contemporary research and best practice models to enhance service delivery. The Core Principles of Psychiatric Rehabilitation have been identified as of particular interest to support work practice.

Trauma-informed care

• Trauma-informed care – What is it? Why is it important? (2020) - Trauma-informed care is a principled approach to reducing re-traumatisation for people who have had distressing experiences in the past.
• Implementing Trauma-Informed Care in Correctional Treatment and Supervision (2019) - This article provides a rationale for trauma-informed care (TIC) in correctional services, and challenges readers to think about offending behavior through the lens of trauma.

A brief overview of Social Role Valorization (2000) - an explanation given by Wolfensberger.

The Origins of 'Best Practices' in the Principle of Normalization and Social Role Valorization (2011) - Wolfensberger's Social Role Valorization (SRV), and its predecessor, the principle of normalization, are acknowledged as having a major positive impact in human services over the last 30+ years.

Towards a dialogue for practice: reconciling Social Role Valorization and the Social Model of Disability (2005) - This article offers a comparative evaluation of two approaches to the organisation of learning disability services and individualised support for people with learning difficulties – Social Role Valorization (SRV) and the Social Model of Disability.

Replacing medical and social models of disability by a communities-based model of equal access for people of differing abilities: A Māori perspective (2006) - although the social model of disability which currently prevails in New Zealand is preferable in many ways to the earlier medical model, it is nevertheless based on a largely uni-dimensional concept of society and continues an established tradition of negativity.

Social and medical models of disability and mental health: evolution and renewal (2019) - discusses the evolution of “social model” and “medical model” of disability.