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Mental Health Awareness among Imams Serving New Zealand's Muslim Population.
Get PDFAs clerical leaders, imams are key members of Muslim communities, and they provide spiritual guidance and advice to Muslims resident in New Zealand, including an increasingly diverse immigrant population. The aims of this study were to ascertain imams' knowledge of and beliefs about mental health and to identify any gaps in their knowledge of local mental health perspectives and services, as well as to explore the role of imams in providing support for individuals and families within the Muslim community who have mental health issues. In their role as leaders, imams provide a type of counselling service to the community and are called upon to offer advice on a range of issues directly related to mental health. In this study, ten imams were interviewed regarding their knowledge of mental health and their role in providing support in this area. Establishing dialogue with imams about local perspectives on mental health would go far toward addressing the mental health needs of Muslim communities by exploring the ways in which mental health training could be incorporated into the imams' own culturally appropriate healing practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] Copyright of New Zealand Journal of Counselling is the property of New Zealand Association of Counsellors and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.
Death on a Smaller but Equal Scale.
Get PDFIn 2007, I "retired" from teaching in New Zealand and moved back to the United States. Within a year, I found myself back in the classroom again, this time teaching a course entitled "Perspectives on Death and Dying" at the local community college. This article begins with an exploration of some of my own grief that I brought to the new task, and my challenges to engage an unfamiliar culture (Mexican Americans making up about 80% of the students in the class). It then surveys the topics the students chose to write about in their final summative essays over the three semesters that I have taught this course so far, as a glimpse into what troubles tertiary-age American college students about dying, grief, and death. The paper concludes with a description of how remaining aware of my own personal grief, processes, and the grief of others, outside of, but simultaneously with, the classroom experience better equipped me to teach the course and to be more sensitive to the encompassing grief that these socially marginalised students bring with them into the academic setting. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] Copyright of New Zealand Journal of Counselling is the property of New Zealand Association of Counsellors and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.
Dreamwork.
Get PDFThe author has been studying, practising and teaching practical dreamwork in New Zealand for over 20 years, and believes the time is overdue for New Zealand universities and polytechnics to include courses in Dream Studies as part of the curriculum in the training of counsellors, psychotherapists, and psychologists. She cites relevant literature, summarises basic principles, gives case examples from her own practice, and outlines the components of a basic course. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] Copyright of New Zealand Journal of Counselling is the property of New Zealand Association of Counsellors and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.
Research for Counselling Practice.
Get PDFIn many professional fields, including counselling and education, there have been significant efforts to bring practice and research closer together. However, for each situation and each new practice problem and responsive research question, there is bridging to be done. This paper takes the form of an autoethnographic essay: it tells a story of the first author's engagement in a small research project that offered opportunities to negotiate her way toward collaboration and respect as a researcher in her own community. As a school counsellor, she held concerns for the positioning of a small group of Pasifika students in the school. This research aimed to consider how the school might do better in serving the educational interests of these students and their families. The article focuses on the shaping effects of the research for the first author's professional and personal life. Its argument is that her experiences as researcher have profoundly shaped the counsellor it is possible for her to be. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] Copyright of New Zealand Journal of Counselling is the property of New Zealand Association of Counsellors and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.
Tihei-wa Mauri Ora.
Get PDFThis is the developmental story of an indigenous kaupapa Māori counselling resource grown in Aotearoa, and based in Te Ao Māori. Two wahine Māori counsellors working in iwi social services in the Far North of New Zealand teamed up to create an assessment tool that has relevance for tangata whenua. The construct is based on concepts of the realms of creation according to the Māori worldview: Te Korekore, Te Pō, Te Whei-Ao, ki Te Ao Mārama. Tihei-wa Mauri Ora! [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] Copyright of New Zealand Journal of Counselling is the property of New Zealand Association of Counsellors and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.
Resolving Nightmares.
Get PDFRecurring nightmares and post-trauma dreams are symptoms of real emotional pain or fear in some aspect of a dreamer's life and, like physical pain, are a call for healing. Careful attention to the structure and content of nightmares can contribute not only to understanding the causes, but also to effectively resolving them. This article presents a short summary of the main kinds of nightmares that occur, and how to work with them in an effort to restore hope to a person who has felt emotionally trapped in repeating circumstances. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] Copyright of New Zealand Journal of Counselling is the property of New Zealand Association of Counsellors and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.
Career Themes in the Lives of Sexual Abuse Counsellors.
Get PDFThis paper, which draws on material from a larger study, focuses on the career trajectories of counsellors who specialise in sexual abuse work. The initial aim of the study was to assess whether the vicarious traumatisation literature underpinned by constructivist self-development theory was relevant. Twenty-two counsellors were interviewed using a qualitative research design and method. In individual interviews, counsellors' motivations for entering the field of sexual abuse therapy were explored, as well as the ways in which their practice experiences had modified their earlier expectations of the work, and the counsellors' subsequent diversification into other roles. The participants in the research, hereafter referred to as the counsellor-participants, described developments in their thinking about sexual abuse that influenced the theoretical approaches they espoused and their career development. Coming to terms with their own early traumatic material meant that many of the counsellor-participants developed knowledge of their own healing processes that they could use constructively in assisting other trauma survivors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] Copyright of New Zealand Journal of Counselling is the property of New Zealand Association of Counsellors and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.
Editorial.
Get PDFThe article discusses various reports published within the issue, including one by Byron Seuili on the traditional Samoan concept and practices of meaalofa, one by Teina Piripi and Vivienne Body on mental health counselling among Māori people, and another by Jeannie Wright on the potential of dialogical journal writing
Secular Science Meets Sacred Art.
Get PDFTangi Hepi is an experienced and highly regarded drug and alcohol counsellor who brings to his practice his Māori roots and his Pākehā upbringing, as well as his clinical training and experience. As a result, he has developed a bi-cultural approach to counselling that is loosely framed by the conventions of the profession, but has been extended and given depth by the teaching he received from his paternal grandmother when he was a young boy. This article explores the counselling principles that underpin his practice, as well as some of the supporting techniques he has developed over the course of his counselling career. His background is described in some detail in order to locate him within both traditional Māori and contemporary Pākehā cultural contexts, although the discussion of his counselling work focuses on aspects drawn predominantly from his Māori cultural heritage. Questions raised in this discussion are an invitation for further exploration and study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] Copyright of New Zealand Journal of Counselling is the property of New Zealand Association of Counsellors and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.
Walking the Space Between: Identity and Māori/Pākehā.
Get PDFThe article reviews the book "Walking the Space Between: Identity and Māori/Pākehā," by Melinda Webber