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Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work CONTENTS AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND VOLUME 32 • NUMBER 4 • 2020 SOCIAL WORK ISSN: 2463-4131 (Online) 1 Editorial 84 View Point 4 Expanding the fi eld: Animals and social work 84 Animal Assisted Intervention at The Nelson ARK: A social Carole Adamson and Simon Lowe work placement refl ection Letitia Meadows, Karen Howieson, Tessa Bashford and Brooke Silke-Atkins 8 Original Articles Quantitative research 89 Original Articles 8 Aotearoa New Zealand social workers and their views of Qualitative research inclusion of animals in social work practice – A descriptive study 89 “It’s about the most needy children”: A Foucauldian Polly Yeung, Nicole Robertson and Lucy Sandford-Reed analysis of school social workers’ responses to need in post- earthquake Canterbury Theoretical research Raewyn Tudor 26 Companion-animal-inclusive domestic violence practice: Theoretical research Implications for service delivery and social work Nik Taylor, Heather Fraser and Damien W. Riggs 103 Clinical social work in Aotearoa New Zealand: Origins, practice, and future implications Qualitative research Joanna Appleby, Barbara Staniforth, Caroline Flanagan and Clarke Millar 40 Horses and worthwhile causes: Exploring equine-assisted learning at Dune Lakes Horse Inspired Learning Centre in Qualitative research Aotearoa New Zealand Ricarda Lietz and Ksenija Napan 116 Meeting the social support needs of older rural people in Central Otago: The impact of a pilot social work position 55 No pets allowed: A trans-species social justice perspective Sharnee Diamond and Chrystal Jaye to address housing issues for older adults and companion animals 131 Accessing social service support: Barriers experienced by Atsuko Matsuoka, John Sorenson, Taryn Mary Graham, Chinese migrants living in Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand Jasmine Ferreira King Lok Kan, Helene Connor and Liz Beddoe 145 Expression of Story: Ethical considerations for participatory, 69 Research Brief community- and arts-based research relationships Trish Van Katwyk, Veen Wong and Gabriel Geiger Qualitative research 69 “The thing about animals is they are not judgemental”: 158 Mental health and the news media in Aotearoa New Zealand: Stories and images from formerly incarcerated women about Key informant perspectives their relationships with companion animals Natasha Oliver, Liz Beddoe and Carole Adamson Michele Jarldorn 172 Book Reviews Theoretical research 77 Learning with dogs: Human–animal bonds and 172 Free to be children: Preventing child sexual abuse in Aotearoa, understandings of relationships and refl exivity in New Zealand practitioner-research —Robyn Salisbury Nerilee Ceatha 174 Interviewing children and young people for research —Michelle O’Reilly and Nisha Dogra 177 Refl ective practice in social work (5th ed.). —Andy Mantell and Terry Scragg VOLUME 32 • NUMBER 4 • 2020 AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND SOCIAL WORK EDITORIAL This final issue of Aotearoa New Zealand Social indigenous models, narrative therapy, Work for 2020 is a rich selection of diverse cognitive behavioural therapy and dialectical content. The first part of the issue is a special behaviour therapy. Four vignettes of clinical section on social work and animals which social work are presented before a discussion has been edited by Simon Lowe and Carole about the future implications for clinical Adamson. In “Expanding the field: animals social work in Aotearoa New Zealand. and social work,” Lowe and Adamson introduce contributions to the issue reflecting Sharnee Diamond and Chrystal Jaye report a popular new field of social work, spanning on a project which aimed to identify the animal rights, the human–animal bond and support needs of older people living in rural animal-assisted activities, and interventions Central Otago, Aotearoa New Zealand; and and therapies. The section comprises four to ascertain if a pilot social work position full articles, two research brief reports and a was meeting these needs. The article reports viewpoint, with several further contributions the positive impact that a social work to be published in March 2021. position in Age Concern Otago has had for clients of the service and describes the Raewyn Tudor leads the general section growing need for social support for older of the issue with a report on a qualitative rural people in Central Otago. The authors study of recovery policy and school social advocate for greater resourcing of social work practice following the Canterbury work services and better coordination and earthquakes. Tudor provides a Foucauldian linking between the government and non- analysis of social workers’ perspectives government agencies serving older adults. on the emotional and psychological challenges for children, where often the main In a second article focusing on the needs interventions were direct therapeutic work. of older adults, King Lok Kan, Helene These practice accounts reveal moments Connor, and Liz Beddoe report on a where social workers contest predominant, study of the experiences of older Chinese individualising conceptualisations of need. migrants living in Auckland and local Tudor argues that, after disasters, social social service practitioners who work workers can reflect on various responses with older adults. Both Chinese migrants schools offer children and families and and social workers agreed that language critique the dominant norms of risk and barriers and transportation problems were vulnerability. obstacles that hindered retired Chinese people accessing social support and health Jo Appleby, Barbara Staniforth, Caroline services. These barriers stood in the way Flanagan, and Clarke Miller discuss of their fuller participation in social life in the development of clinical social work Aotearoa New Zealand and the enjoyment in Aotearoa New Zealand against and ease of their daily lives. The migrant the background of the debates about participants connected their lack of English professionalisation and registration in the proficiency to their dependence on family profession. An overview of the social work and wanted more support to improve their training landscape and post-qualifying English in order to reduce their reliance mental health specialisation options on their children. Practitioners recognised precedes a discussion of the theoretical that support for those working with underpinnings of clinical social work, retired Chinese migrants is insufficient AOTEAROA including systemic models, recovery because there are insufficient Mandarin- NEW ZEALAND SOCIAL approaches, strengths-based models, or Cantonese-speaking social workers or WORK 32(4), 1–3. VOLUME 32 • NUMBER 4 • 2020 AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND SOCIAL WORK 1 EDITORIAL support workers in their organisations. which was thought to deter help-seeking and hinder trust. Canadian authors, Trish Van Katwyk, Veen Wong and Gabriel Geiger consider **** the ethics and efficacy of a nonviolent, “braided” methodology used by a research We take this time to thank all of the authors study called “The Recognition Project”. The and reviewers who have contributed to methodology of The Recognition Project our four issues in 2020. We recognise those wove participatory, community, and arts- who said “yes” to an extra task in a very based approaches to create a cooperative, demanding year. At the time of writing we relationally oriented environment where have a good number of articles in review three distinct communities of interest for 2021. The journal is expanding its could contribute respectively—and readership and in 2021 we will build on our collaboratively—to the sharing, creation, international audience. In the last calendar and public dance performance of stories year, we have had 27,533 unique users: 46% about self-harm. The project brought are from Aotearoa, 12% from the USA, 11% together university-based researchers, from Australia, 10% from the UK and the community-based researchers who had remainder from other countries. Over the engaged in self-harm, and an artist team of four 2020 issues, our authors have hailed choreographers, a musician, and professional from Canada, Ireland, Australia, Scotland youth dancers. Van Katwyk and colleagues and England, as well as from Aotearoa. argue that it is important for social work researchers to critically examine the research We started tracking users using Google methodologies that are used and to reflect analytics in June 2016. In that year the about the ethical implications of research number of monthly unique users peaked in practices. A case is made to develop non- 2016 at 1,507 unique users during the month oppressive practice by privileging the of August. There has been a steady year- knowledge that has been gained through on-year growth in the number of unique non-oppressive research. users with the most recent monthly peak in August 2020 at 3,626 unique users (the user The final full article in this issue explores base has more doubled in four years). the role played by news media in the representation of mental health issues. Finally, the Editorial Collective would like Natasha Oliver, Liz Beddoe, and Carole to draw your attention to the two current Adamson report on a study which sought calls for papers which can be accessed in the perceptions of key informants on this announcements on the journal website. Tu topic. Participants included those with Mau, our Pasifika research and commentary perspectives as mental health professionals, edition, seeks contributions on a broad mental health advocates, mental health range of themes of significance to Pasifika consumers and/or media
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