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Physioheresy: 10 years of critical physiotherapy writing

2024-10-23T03:21:19+00:00

In June 2024 the Critical Physiotherapy Network celebrated its 10th anniversary. Over the last decade critical physiotherapy has emerged as an important sub-discipline, with dozens of scholarly works opening up the physiotherapy profession to much needed critical scrutiny. Running alongside that scholarly work has been a blog that tried to catalogue, provoke and encourage deeper thinking about the profession and be a positive force for an otherwise physiotherapy. This book brings together for the first time the hundreds of CPN blogposts written over the decade in a new curated anthology. Running to more than 300,000 words, the book catalogues the development of the CPN and the ideas it fed into and inspired, and represents a celebration of an idea whose time had surely come.

Psyche and Academia: Papers from 21 Years of the Auckland University of Technology Psychotherapy Master’s Programmes

2022-12-15T03:56:14+00:00

A rugby world cup can be a big deal for rugby fans at any time. I’m not a rugby fan so these things mostly pass me by unnoticed. However, when it’s a women’s side, the Black Ferns, in a sell-out grand final for the first time on home ground at Eden Park in Auckland – as I write – then that exceeds the bubble of the rugby world, reaching into a much wider sphere. Maaori and other wahine being celebrated at national level for their mahi and talent – in whatever field – is a sadly rare occurrence, and so this hyped event brings that into sharp relief. We all get a lift when voices not so often heard or sought out, are brought forward. We all are made stronger when more of us are represented in our experience. We all have a chance to grow when our various ways of being and knowing are admissible.

The voices gathered together by Keith and Emma into this book bring a lift to psychotherapy discourse and practice, in their diversity of authorship and method/ology. Our profession is made stronger by the warp and weft of carefully honed enquiries that expand our understanding of subjective experience – and our clinical practice grows when we widen our ways of being and knowing...

Physiotherapy Otherwise

2021-12-14T00:50:05+00:00

Most people are so familiar with the idea of professions that it would be hard to imagine life without them. And yet, the professions we know today are a relatively recent invention. Although physiotherapy may not have achieved the extraordinary levels of privilege and prestige enjoyed by medicine, it still has three quarters of a million respected and valued practitioners worldwide, and is, in many ways, the model of a modern health profession.

But physiotherapy is also facing unprecedented challenges, and calls for reform are now widespread. Global healthcare is on the cusp of a cultural, economic, social, and technological revolution, and entering a new post-professional era. Physiotherapy will be affected in profoundly important ways in the coming years, but, to date, we have precious few tools to help us navigate the change.

The story of how physiotherapy arrived here was the subject of The End of Physiotherapy (Routledge, 2017). Physiotherapy Otherwise builds on this work, bringing a century of social theory to our understanding of the profession.

The book explores what the professions are, what they do in society, what's good about them, and what's bad, and applies all of this to physiotherapy today.

By taking the reader from our earliest sociological understandings of the professions to the cutting edge of contemporary thinking, Physiotherapy Otherwise is both a primer on sociology and a critical course in a new ways to understand our profession and our practice.

A paperback version of this book is available to purchase print on demand via most major online booksellers.

Three-Dimensional Physique Assessment in the Military: New Zealand Defence Force Anthropometry Survey Protocols and Summary Statistics

2021-05-10T02:00:00+00:00

This book describes how to conduct a large-scale anthropometric survey in the military with a specific focus on the New Zealand Defence Force Anthropometry Survey. This book provides a historical introduction to surface kinanthropometry (Part I), 3D scanning technology (Part II) and an overview of military anthropometry surveys in Part IV. It also provides a description of the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) anthropometry survey in Part IV, conclusions in Part V and concludes with the measurement technique protocols and normative data for the NZDF kinanthropometry survey in Part VI.

While surface anthropometry has traditionally been used to assess body composition through the internationally recognised methodology of the International Society for the Advancement of Kinanthropometry (ISAK), the commercialisation of three-dimensional photometry (3D scanning) has led to the adoption of new and often non-standardised, measurement techniques.

We detail standardisation procedures for 3D scanning in terms of participant preparation, equipment calibration, test protocols, data reporting and data interpretation. We outline how 3D scanning works, what it is used to measure, and what the issues are surrounding its validity, practicality, and reliability. This book provides an essential reference for practitioners wishing to measure military physique. We have not presented 3-D assessment data (i.e. surface manifold, volumetric, symmetry or shape analysis). We have only extracted 1-D measures from 3D images in this eBook.

20/20 Vision, 2020

2021-04-29T03:32:49+00:00

Structured in the form of 20 pieces of writing, this book offers critical reflections on teaching; psychotherapy theory, the education and training of psychotherapists, and the profession of psychotherapy itself; COVID-19; language, writing, grammar, and logic; engagement with Te Tiriti o Waitangi; and much more. Throughout the book, most of which was written in the year 2020, the author, a professor of psychotherapy and the editor of the international journal Psychotherapy & Politics International, weaves his reflections on and concerns about psychotherapy, mental health, and the social world, including the political world. Drawing on the concept and metaphor of vision, his book presents, as one reviewer puts it: ‘a stimulating blend of hindsight and foresight’.

Blood on their banner

2020-11-12T02:57:41+00:00

The South Pacific is no longer pacific. Nationalist struggles against colonialism, indigenous claims for sovereignty, and superpower rivalry have turned it into a zone of growing tension. David Robie, a New Zealand journalist covering the region for the past decade, provides a devastating expose of the political forces which have shaken the South Pacific over the past few years. He also argues that the policies of France, Indonesia and the United States pose the gravest threat to the stability of the region.

The author describes the liberation struggle of New Caledonia's Kanaks to end French rule; the fate of President Remeliik of Belau, an island with the world's first nuclear-free constitution; the pressures on Vanuatu as a result of its opposition to nuclear weapons; Indonesia's two 'forgotten wars' in East Timor and West Papua; and the coup which has divided the two communities of Fiji. Graphic accounts include the massacres of Hienghene and Ouvea, the siege of Thio and the assassination of Eloi Machoro - regarded by some as the Che Guevara of the South Pacific.

Access a 'flipable' eBook version here: https://www.aut.ac.nz/rc/ebooks/38289eBookv2/index.html

Mekim Nius

2020-10-22T22:51:40+00:00

The news media is the watchdog of democracy. But in the South Pacific today the Fourth Estate role is under threat from governments seeking statutory regulation, diminished media credibility, dilemmas over ethics and uncertainty over professionalism and training.

Traditionally-with the exception of Papua New Guinea where university education has been the nonn - the region's journalists have mostly learned on the job in the newsroom or through vocational short courses funded by foreign donors.

However, today's Pacific journalists now more than ever need an education to contend with the complex cultural, development, environmental historical, legal, political and sociological challenges faced in an era of globalisation.

From the establishment of the region's first journalism school at the University of Papua New Guinea in 1975 with New Zealand aid, Mekim Nius traces three decades of South Pacific media education history.

Dr David Robie profiles journalism at UPNG, Divine Word University and the University of the South Pacific in Fiji with Australian, Commonwealth, French, NZ and UNESCO aid. He also examines the impact of the region's politics onthe media in the two major economies, Fiji and Papua NewGuinea-fromthe Bougainville conflict and Sandline mercenary crisis to Fiji's coups.

The book draws on interviews, research, two news industry surveys, and the author's personal experience as a Pacific media educator for almost a decade. Mekim Nius argues journalists need to be provided with critical studies, ethical and contextual knowledge matching technical skills to be effective communicators and political mediators with the Pacific's 'new regionalism'.

[Back cover copy]

Access a 'flipable' eBook version here:https://www.aut.ac.nz/rc/ebooks/pmc/25891Mekimnius/index.html

Pluralism in Psychotherapy

2020-06-22T05:39:54+00:00

The revised and extended edition of The Turning Tide (2011) e-book edition.

Chronicles the history of the moves towards the statutory regulation of psychotherapy and the state registration of psychotherapists in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Includes a critique from indigenous practitioners of such moves.
Provides a detailed critique of the legislative framework for such regulation and registration.
Elucidates the arguments against and for such regulation and registration.
Clarifies the distinction between the registration of title and the broader regulation of the profession and practice of psychotherapy and related activities such as supervision and education and training.
Is a thoroughly revised and extended edition of the original book, The Turning Tide, including a new introduction and five new chapters.
Offers a critical reflection from a post-regulation landscape aimed at informing local and overseas colleagues about the implications and impact of state registration and statutory regulation.
Promotes a pluralistic perspective on the practice of psychotherapy.

The Book of Evan

2020-06-23T02:16:42+00:00

In many ways Evan McAra Sherrard was a Renaissance man: a master of not one but several trades - agriculture, education, ministry, and psychotherapy - and he liked the fact that he had several strings to his bow. He described his "basic sense of identity" as "a healing minister of religion" and that "my personal competence is as a psychotherapist". To many - family, friends, colleagues, trainees, supervises, and clients - he was compassionate, open hearted, thoughtful, and generous.

Evan was intstrumental in setting up the Cameron Centre in Dunedin in the 1960s, the Human Development Team within Presbyterian Support Services in Auckland in the late 1970s, and the Psychotherapy Programme at Auckland Institute (now University) of Technology in the late 1980s. More broadly, he was hugely influentual in the practice, professions and organisation of transactional analysis, psychodrama, psychotherapy, and counselling in New Zealand.

This book brings together Evan's mostly unpublished writings in these various fields of interest, together with contributions from some 40 people, including his family, who represent the breadth and depth of influence that Evan's work and life had - and continues to have today.