Browsing by Author "Lapsley, Hilary"

• "Kia Mauri Tau!" Narratives of recovery from disabling mental health problems 

  Lapsley, Hilary; Nikora, Linda Waimarie; Black, Rosanne Marjory (Mental Health Commission, 2002)

  A bicultural research team at the University of Waikato successfully applied for funding from the Health Research Council to do a qualitative research project in the area of ‘pathways to wellness’. The Mental Health ...

  

• Poster Abstracts 

  Lapsley, Hilary; Nikora, Linda Waimarie; Black, Rosanne Marjory; Waitoki, Waikaremoana; Williams, Margaret H.; Masters-Awatere, Bridgette; Levy, Michelle Patricia; Pattison, Rosina (Maori and Psychology Research Unit, University of Waikato, 2003)

  These are the poster abstracts from the Proceedings of the National Māori Graduates of Psychology Symposium 2002.

  

• Reforming institutional responses to violence against women 

  Robertson, Neville (The University of Waikato, 1999)

  Battering has been described as an example of the total institution (Avni, 1991), within which batterers use violence, threats of violence, isolation, and other tactics of abuse to enforce compliance with their rules. ...

  

• Growing up or growing down: Pakeha women's memories of adolescence 

  Hamerton, Heather (The University of Waikato, 2000)

  This study investigated the processes by which women construct their “selves” using the memories of adolescent experiences of five Pakeha women who went to school together in the 1960’s. The study used memory-work, an ...

  

• Health ‘in queer street’: constituting sickness, sexualities and bodies in the spaces of lesbian health 

  MacBride-Stewart, Sara (The University of Waikato, 2001)

  This thesis explores lesbian health. The appeal of this project is its attention to the constitutions, resistances, and reproductions involved in the construction of ‘lesbian health’. ‘Lesbian health’ provides the context ...

  

• An investigation into battered women’s shelters: feminist cooperatives or social service institutions, case studies of Canada and New Zealand 

  Gilson, Dorothy (The University of Waikato, 2001)

  The battered women’s movement has faced challenges and experienced tensions. The establishment of ongoing government funding for the battered women’s movement was significant as shelters which were established as feminist ...

  

• Living with uncertainty: A grounded theory of psychiatric stigma when seeking or maintaining employment 

  Mackenzie, Hamish Cameron (The University of Waikato, 2002)

  The aim of this study was to investigate stigma for people who have experienced psychiatric disorder. Psychiatric stigma can exclude people both from economic roles and from participation in daily community life. Social ...

  

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