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Health law
New Zealand's Mental Health Act in practice by Dewey Number: 344.044 NEWPublication Date: 2013Part IV. Treatment without consent. Chapter 11. Mental Health Nursing and the Mental Health Act
- Preparing for the Commencement of the Substance Addiction (Compulsory Assessment and Treatment) Act 2017The Act replaces the Alcoholism and Drug Addiction Act 1966.
Online resources - Past mental health services , policy in New Zealand
- Mental health in Aotearoa New Zealand: Rising to the challenge of the fourth wave? (Article)Tip: Search the library databases via Search Rapua for articles.Search using keywords e.g.:
mental health services aotearoa "New Zealand"
Mental Health in Asia and the Pacific: Historical and comparative perspectives by Publication Date: 2017Chapter 18: Grafting and Crafting New Zealands Mental Health Policy
Māori and social issues by Publication Date: 2013Good background chapter: Māori Mental Health: Past, Present and Future
Multiple ebook access
Unfortunate folk: Essays on mental health treatment, 1863-1992 by postgraduate history students, University of Otago 1972-2000 by Dewey Number: eBookPublication Date: 2001
Past Judgement: Social policy in New Zealand History by Publication Date: 2004Chapter 5: Out of the shadows: Some historical underpinnings of mental health policy. Print copy on the shelf at 361.610993 PAS- Sorrows of a century: Interpreting suicide in New Zealand, 1900-2000 byDewey Number: eBook & PrintPublication Date: 2014Check on the shelves at 362.280993 WEA for a lending copy.
Mental health nursing: Dimensions of praxis by Dewey Number: 616.890231 MENPublication Date: 2018Chapter 1: A Brief History: The Role of the Nurse in Caring for the Mentally Ill in Australia and New Zealand (Aotearoa)
Stigma & Discrimination
Models of madness by Dewey Number: 616.898 MODPublication Date: 2013Chapter 12: Prejudice, stigma and `schizophrenia': The role of bio-genetic ideology.
Chapter 14: Psychosis, poverty and ethnicity
Stepping out of the shadows : Insights into self-stigma and madness by Dewey Number: 305.9084 STEPublication Date: 2009
Books on the shelves
Mental health in primary care. A resource for New Zealand health professionals. by Dewey Number: 616.89 LARPublication Date: 2018
Maea te toi ora: Māori health transformations by Dewey Number: 362.208999442 MAEPublication Date: 2018The chapter Mental health services for Māori by Te Kani Kingi includes a brief history of Mental health service delivery.
Sociology of health in New Zealand by Dewey Number: 306.461 DEWPublication Date: 2003Chapter 10: Mental health and social control talks about theories of mental health, institutionalism and the stigma of mental illness.
Wai 2575 Health Services and Outcomes Inquiry 2019
- Waitangi Tribunal: Health Services and Outcomes InquiryLinks to different reports and research.
Crown-commissioned research
Articles
Current state of affairs
- Mental health and addiction in Aotearoa New Zealand recent trends in service use, unmet need, and information gaps (2018)A report by Sheree Gibb and Ruth Cunningham
- Government Inquiry into Mental Health and AddictionFind and read the He Ara Oranga: Report of the government inquiry into mental health and addiction
- Te Kaveinga – Mental health and wellbeing of Pacific peoplesResults from the New Zealand Mental Health Monitor & Health and Lifestyles Survey.
June 2018