title: Examining therapeutic approaches towards injurious behaviours in adolescents: Perspectives on influence, efficacy & prevention

authors: Parsons, Abby

subjects: NSSI

abstract: This qualitative research investigates professional perspectives on adolescent non- suicidal self-injury (NSSI) and outward-directed injurious (ODI) behaviours through in-depth interviews with twelve professionals across mental health, education, and social services in New Zealand. Utilising thematic analysis, the study reveals insights into how these behaviours represent interconnected manifestations of underlying emotional regulation challenges shaped by individual vulnerabilities, relationship dynamics, and systemic factors. Four key themes emerged: The Duality of Aggressive Expression, Environmental and Developmental Influences, Building Therapeutic Connections, and System Complexities and Bridge-Building. The research extends theoretical understanding by examining how risk factors influence behavioural expression, highlighting the connection between neurodevelopmental differences, trauma histories, and family dynamics. By challenging traditional conceptual frameworks, the study identifies significant gaps between evidence- based interventions and real-world implementation, ultimately offering recommendations for more integrated treatment protocols, enhanced professional support systems, and comprehensive care pathways for vulnerable youth.

text: Examining therapeutic approaches towards injurious behaviours in adolescents: Perspectives on influence, efficacy & prevention This qualitative research investigates professional perspectives on adolescent non- suicidal self-injury (NSSI) and outward-directed injurious (ODI) behaviours through in-depth interviews with twelve professionals across mental health, education, and social services in New Zealand. Utilising thematic analysis, the study reveals insights into how these behaviours represent interconnected manifestations of underlying emotional regulation challenges shaped by individual vulnerabilities, relationship dynamics, and systemic factors. Four key themes emerged: The Duality of Aggressive Expression, Environmental and Developmental Influences, Building Therapeutic Connections, and System Complexities and Bridge-Building. The research extends theoretical understanding by examining how risk factors influence behavioural expression, highlighting the connection between neurodevelopmental differences, trauma histories, and family dynamics. By challenging traditional conceptual frameworks, the study identifies significant gaps between evidence- based interventions and real-world implementation, ultimately offering recommendations for more integrated treatment protocols, enhanced professional support systems, and comprehensive care pathways for vulnerable youth.

year: 2025

title: Visual analogy in creative design: case study of fractals and crochet lace

authors: Cunningham, Sally Jo

subjects: computer science

abstract: One powerful technique for supporting creativity in design is analogy: drawing similarities between seemingly unrelated objects taken from different domain. A case study is presented in which fractal images serve as a source for novel crochet lace patterns. The human designer searches a potential design space by manipulating the parameters of fractal systems, and then translates portions of fractal forms to lacework. This approach to supporting innovation in design is compared with previous work based on formal modelling of the domain with generative grammars.

text: Visual analogy in creative design: case study of fractals and crochet lace One powerful technique for supporting creativity in design is analogy: drawing similarities between seemingly unrelated objects taken from different domain. A case study is presented in which fractal images serve as a source for novel crochet lace patterns. The human designer searches a potential design space by manipulating the parameters of fractal systems, and then translates portions of fractal forms to lacework. This approach to supporting innovation in design is compared with previous work based on formal modelling of the domain with generative grammars.

year: 1996-10

title: Coaching for the game of life: Driving coaching with mana

authors: Were, Brandyn Māia

subjects: Kaupapa Māori

abstract: Coaching needs to account for culture. This indigenous autoethnography explores personal experience to show how I, a young Māori male coach in Aotearoa New Zealand, navigates the complex nature of coaching. By weaving together Kaupapa Māori, established coaching knowledge, and experiences from my playing and coaching journey to date, a Kaupapa Māori coaching framework emerges – Driving Coaching with Mana.

As I reflect on the teachings of my coach, Mr. Mel Young, combined with my cultural identity, I reconnect to critical moments in my life that have shaped the person I am today and the values I hold, elevating the centrality of culture through the practice of Kaupapa, Ako, Manaakitanga, Whanaungatanga, Wairuatanga, and self-reflection as Āta-kaiako (a reflective coach).

Driven to enhance the development of rangatahi (youth) through sport, and informed by literature and experience, Driving Coaching with Mana is personally and culturally grounded – a way of thinking about coaching differently and in a more holistic way. There is more to the people we coach than their lives as athletes. Coaching is more than skill acquisition.

text: Coaching for the game of life: Driving coaching with mana Coaching needs to account for culture. This indigenous autoethnography explores personal experience to show how I, a young Māori male coach in Aotearoa New Zealand, navigates the complex nature of coaching. By weaving together Kaupapa Māori, established coaching knowledge, and experiences from my playing and coaching journey to date, a Kaupapa Māori coaching framework emerges – Driving Coaching with Mana.

As I reflect on the teachings of my coach, Mr. Mel Young, combined with my cultural identity, I reconnect to critical moments in my life that have shaped the person I am today and the values I hold, elevating the centrality of culture through the practice of Kaupapa, Ako, Manaakitanga, Whanaungatanga, Wairuatanga, and self-reflection as Āta-kaiako (a reflective coach).

Driven to enhance the development of rangatahi (youth) through sport, and informed by literature and experience, Driving Coaching with Mana is personally and culturally grounded – a way of thinking about coaching differently and in a more holistic way. There is more to the people we coach than their lives as athletes. Coaching is more than skill acquisition.

year: 2023