title: Improving prediction of potential for treatment completion at Tai Aroha

authors: Astridge Clarke,  Abigail Darcy

subjects: Treatment

abstract: Participant non-completion can be a major problem for treatment programmes. Staff may try to minimise non-completion by deciding who to select for treatment using professional intuition and referral information. It can be difficult for treatment staff to make these decisions regarding the potential for programme completion due to a lack of clear guidelines about what information to consider. This lack of clear guidelines can increase susceptibility to biases, and lead to unreliable and potentially inaccurate decisions. Research has identified ‘simple rules’ that are tools to aid decision-making quickly, effectively, and consistently. Therefore, using past treatment data, we1 aimed to identify predictors of programme completion vs. non-completion at Tai Aroha—a residential treatment programme based in Hamilton—to explore whether a “simple rule” can be developed from information readily available at the time of referral, to support staff decision-making when selecting offenders to attend treatment, with the potential to increase programme completion. We were successful in the development of a simple rule to aid Tai Aroha staff selection decisions. The implications, and limitations of our rule and our study are discussed, and future research relating to simple rules are identified.

text: Improving prediction of potential for treatment completion at Tai Aroha Participant non-completion can be a major problem for treatment programmes. Staff may try to minimise non-completion by deciding who to select for treatment using professional intuition and referral information. It can be difficult for treatment staff to make these decisions regarding the potential for programme completion due to a lack of clear guidelines about what information to consider. This lack of clear guidelines can increase susceptibility to biases, and lead to unreliable and potentially inaccurate decisions. Research has identified ‘simple rules’ that are tools to aid decision-making quickly, effectively, and consistently. Therefore, using past treatment data, we1 aimed to identify predictors of programme completion vs. non-completion at Tai Aroha—a residential treatment programme based in Hamilton—to explore whether a “simple rule” can be developed from information readily available at the time of referral, to support staff decision-making when selecting offenders to attend treatment, with the potential to increase programme completion. We were successful in the development of a simple rule to aid Tai Aroha staff selection decisions. The implications, and limitations of our rule and our study are discussed, and future research relating to simple rules are identified.

year: 2023

title: Cultural Justice and Ethics

authors: Nikora, Linda Waimarie

subjects: Maori

abstract: Contains the complete proceedings of the Cultural Justice and Ethics symposium held within the Annual Conference of the New Zealand Psychological Society, Wellington, 23rd-24th August, 1993. The responsibility for ensuring that the discipline of psychology is culturally just, is not only that of Maori or some other non-dominant group - the responsibility belongs to all involved in psychology. This collection of papers is about questioning and challenging the psychology that has been adopted from other settings. It is about nurturing and valuing the development of local and indigenous psychologies. It is about developing psychological tools and methods of application that are culturally compatible. It is an invitation to become excited about and instrumental in building a profession and practice in Aotearoa, for Aotearoa.

text: Cultural Justice and Ethics Contains the complete proceedings of the Cultural Justice and Ethics symposium held within the Annual Conference of the New Zealand Psychological Society, Wellington, 23rd-24th August, 1993. The responsibility for ensuring that the discipline of psychology is culturally just, is not only that of Maori or some other non-dominant group - the responsibility belongs to all involved in psychology. This collection of papers is about questioning and challenging the psychology that has been adopted from other settings. It is about nurturing and valuing the development of local and indigenous psychologies. It is about developing psychological tools and methods of application that are culturally compatible. It is an invitation to become excited about and instrumental in building a profession and practice in Aotearoa, for Aotearoa.

year: 1993

title: Ecological studies on Lake Ototoa with special reference to the copepod Calamoecia lucasi

authors: Green, J.D.

abstract: New Zealand is a country richly endowed with lakes of all kinds , yet apart from some pioneering surveys (e.g. Cunningham et al 1953, Flint 1938 , Stout 1969, Jolly 1968) and a few more detailed recent studies (e.g. Fish 1970, Barker 1970, Chapman 1972) very little is known about their detailed limnology or of the biology of the plant and animal species inhabiting them. The South Island is characterised by having many large, deep glacial lakes, and a lesser number of smaller bodies of water, supporting populations of various species of the copepod genus Boeckella. In the North Island there are fewer larger lakes, and most of these are concentrated in the volcanic region near the centre of the Island. Elsewhere smaller bodies of water are more characteristic, and particularly in the far north and along the western coastline the most important and common of these are the sand-dune lakes. In contrast with the South Island, species of Boeckella are relatively less common and in most of the smaller lakes, as well as the majority of the larger central ones their place is taken by the small centropagid Calamoecia lucasi which is usually the dominant zooplankter whenever it occurs.
However, only two studies have been made of its biology. Barker (1967) studied some aspects of its seasonal cycle in Lake Pupuke, a eutrophic lake near Auckland, and recently Chapman (1972) has made more extensive investigations of these aspects as well as of population dynamics in Lakes Rotorua and Rotoiti, two large mesotrophic lakes in the centre of the North Island. 
The study upon which this thesis is based is the first of the ecology of C. lucasi in an oligtrophic lake, and was mainly concerned with the copepod’s seasonal biology, population dynamics and production in one of the northern sand-dune lakes. As well as these aspects, the general limnology of the lake and the cycles of phytoplankton were considered in some detail, not only because of the importance of the environment in determining most limnological cycles, but also because of the lack of knowledge of the general limnology of this important class of New Zealand lake.

text: Ecological studies on Lake Ototoa with special reference to the copepod Calamoecia lucasi New Zealand is a country richly endowed with lakes of all kinds , yet apart from some pioneering surveys (e.g. Cunningham et al 1953, Flint 1938 , Stout 1969, Jolly 1968) and a few more detailed recent studies (e.g. Fish 1970, Barker 1970, Chapman 1972) very little is known about their detailed limnology or of the biology of the plant and animal species inhabiting them. The South Island is characterised by having many large, deep glacial lakes, and a lesser number of smaller bodies of water, supporting populations of various species of the copepod genus Boeckella. In the North Island there are fewer larger lakes, and most of these are concentrated in the volcanic region near the centre of the Island. Elsewhere smaller bodies of water are more characteristic, and particularly in the far north and along the western coastline the most important and common of these are the sand-dune lakes. In contrast with the South Island, species of Boeckella are relatively less common and in most of the smaller lakes, as well as the majority of the larger central ones their place is taken by the small centropagid Calamoecia lucasi which is usually the dominant zooplankter whenever it occurs.
However, only two studies have been made of its biology. Barker (1967) studied some aspects of its seasonal cycle in Lake Pupuke, a eutrophic lake near Auckland, and recently Chapman (1972) has made more extensive investigations of these aspects as well as of population dynamics in Lakes Rotorua and Rotoiti, two large mesotrophic lakes in the centre of the North Island. 
The study upon which this thesis is based is the first of the ecology of C. lucasi in an oligtrophic lake, and was mainly concerned with the copepod’s seasonal biology, population dynamics and production in one of the northern sand-dune lakes. As well as these aspects, the general limnology of the lake and the cycles of phytoplankton were considered in some detail, not only because of the importance of the environment in determining most limnological cycles, but also because of the lack of knowledge of the general limnology of this important class of New Zealand lake.

year: 1973