NZPsS News
Launch of Child Poverty and Mental Health: A Literature Review
Child Poverty Action Group and the New Zealand Psychological Society warmly invite you to attend the report launch of Child Poverty and Mental Health:A Literature Review at the Auckland City Mission on 18th May 2017.
Thursday, May 18, 2017 from 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM
City Mission, 140 Hobson Street, Auckland
Register here: https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?oeidk=a07ee2ogokh85693336&oseq=&c=&ch=
Speakers
Professor Angus Hikairo Macfarlane -Angus Hikairo Macfarlane (Ngati Whakaue) is the Kaihautu of the New Zealand Psychological Society. Professor Macfarlane is the Director of Te Ru Rangahau, the Maori Research Laboratory at the University of Canterbury. His research explores cultural concepts and strategies that influence professional practice.
Quentin Abraham – Quentin Abraham is the current President of the New Zealand Psychological Society. He works in private as an educational psychologist with 26 years’ experience.
Associate Professor Kerry Gibson – Kerry Gibson is an Associate Professor in the School of Psychology at the University of Auckland. She is a clinical psychologist and former President of the New Zealand Psychological Society.
Professor Innes Asher – Innes is a Paediatrician (Starship Children’s Hospital, Auckland) and CPAG’s children’s health spokesperson. She chairs the Global Asthma Network. In 2017 she was appointed by the World Health Organisation (WHO) to their inaugural Expert Panel on Non-communicable diseases (NCDs).
Two books launched
Two new books have been launched at the NZPsS conference in Wellington: Professional Practice of Psychology in Aotearoa New Zealand (3rd edition). Edited by Waikaremoana W. Waitoki, Jacqueline S. Feather, Neville R. Robertson & Julia J. Rucklidge.
And: Te Manu Kai i Te Mātauranga: Indigenous Psychology in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Edited by Waikaremoana W. Waitoki & Michelle Levy.
These books are now available to buy in our book store: http://www.psychology.org.nz/publications-media/book-store/#id=4&cid=884&wid=301
Karahipi Tumuaki – The President’s Scholarship
The Karahipi Tumuaki President’s Scholarship recognises research which is Māori centred and of value to the Māori community. The Scholarship is valued at $5000 plus one year’s free membership of the Society. If the recipient is a Full Member of the Society, the subscription fee will be waived for one year. If the recipient is not a member, they will receive a year’s free subscribership to the Society. Karahipi Tumuaki, more information
Aotearoa New Zealand loses a leader with immense mana
Kua hinga te totara i te wao-nui-ā-Tāne. Te tangi o te ngākau, te hotuhotu o te manawa mō te ngarotanga nei. E noho mokemoke tātou te hunga mātauranga i raro i te kapua pouri.
A giant totara has fallen in the vast forest of Tane. This is the metaphor that resonates when attempting to offer an accolade a person who has contributed so much to so many.
Whakatōhea and iwi throughout the nation are mourning the loss of Dr Ranginui Walker, a pillar of the academic community spanning more than 50 years. Dr Walker manifested ways of thinking, feeling and acting that were accumulated through adroit scholarship coupled with a courageous sense of conviction to advance the development of Māori in all disciplines. These convictions had breadth and depth and consequently earned him a reputation as a human repository of Māori knowledge. While Dr Walker had a long association as a powerhouse academic with the University of Auckland, his writings are required or recommended texts for courses in all places of higher learning in this country. A notable link to the University of Canterbury is that Dr Walker was the biographer of He Tipua: The Life and Times of Sir Apirana Ngata. Sir Apirana completed a BA from Canterbury in 1893 to become the first Māori graduate.
Dr Walker was an educationalist and historian, but many psychologists referred to his thinking and theorizing so as to support good practice.
The loss of Dr Ranginui Walker is a great one, not only for his family but the wider community.
E te rangatira, whai atu rā i ngā tapuwae ā o tātou mātua tupuna ki te kainga whakamutunga.Ka whawhai tonu mātou.
Media release: Cutbacks to mental health services in Canterbury
The New Zealand Psychological Society (NZPsS) is deeply concerned about planned cutbacks to mental health services in Canterbury. Media release: Cutbacks to mental health services in Canterbury .
Webinar on rural practice
In “Growing and sustaining a rural private practice” Margaretanne Roger, a NZPsS member based in Northland, talks about the issues to consider when operating a private practice in a rural setting.
Webinar on Mindfulness
Members, check out our third webinar – this one is on Mindfulness and presented by Ingo Lambrecht. Go to the members’ only page.
Media Release
The New Zealand Psychological Society (NZPsS) passed a remit at its AGM to promote the use of psychology to help government and non-government agencies to tackle climate change. Read more
2014 NZPsS Award
Heather Heron-Speirs, Michael O’Driscoll and Mihiroa Gillies are the award recipients. Read more
Canterbury Branch meeting
The interim Canterbury Committee will hold its inaugural event for the rebirth of the NZPsS Canterbury Branch- 27 August- read more