Peer to Peer Support

Peer to peer support even works for business growth

https://bdaily.co.uk/articles/2020/11/17/business-owners-relied-on-peer-to-peer-support-during-covid-19-lockdown-research-finds Kevin Brent, founder and managing director of BizSmart, explained: “According to research peer-to-peer business support enables businesses to advance growth by two to three times their normal levels. Therefore, it comes as no surprise that 90% of business owners have found peer-to-peer support instrumental during the COVID-19 pandemic, and a further 80% believe business…

Marama Davidson has been named the Minister for the Prevention of Family and Sexual Violence.

https://nzfvc.org.nz/news/new-minister-prevention-family-and-sexual-violence-other-ministerial-positions-announced The announcement includes a new ministerial position: Minister for the Prevention of Family and Sexual Violence. The position is a Ministerial position outside of Cabinet under the Cooperation Agreement Between the NZ Labour Party and the Green Party of Aotearoa NZ. The Agreement States “The Minister for the Prevention of Family and Sexual Violence will be the lead…

Conspiracy theorists: people who exhibit high levels of distrust, are most likely to believe false information.

Conspiracy theorists: people who exhibit high levels of distrust, are most likely to believe false information.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/social-instincts/202011/the-one-trait-conspiracy-theorists-have-in-common “We find that demographic and economic characteristics of individuals are poor predictors of whether they are more likely to believe false narratives,” state the researchers. “However, consistent differences arise along a key dimension: conspiracy theorists are significantly more likely to report high levels of general distrust. Specifically, a one standard deviation increase in [distrust]…

Black and White Thinking Can Affect Your Health

Black and White Thinking Can Affect Your Health

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/health-and-human-nature/202011/black-and-white-thinking-can-affect-your-health Dichotomous thinking is seeing things, situations, relationships, and experiences, as either good or bad. Often this leads to people thinking either they have succeeded or failed. With this scenario, it is easy to end up frustrated because there doesn’t seem to be a readily available answer to the problem. Looking at it another way,…

Disclosure of non-recent (historic) childhood sexual abuse: What should researchers do?

Disclosure of non-recent (historic) childhood sexual abuse: What should researchers do?

https://jme.bmj.com/content/early/2020/11/10/medethics-2020-106343 Non-recent (historic) childhood sexual abuse is an important issue to research, though often regarded as taboo and frequently met with caution, avoidance or even opposition from research ethics committees. Sensitive research, such as that which asks victim-survivors to recount experiences of abuse or harm, has the propensity to be emotionally challenging for both the…

How Narcissists Protect Themselves from Feeling Like Losers

How Narcissists Protect Themselves from Feeling Like Losers

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/fulfillment-any-age/202011/how-narcissists-protect-themselves-feeling-losers The Swiss studies would suggest that people high in narcissism are more likely to fail, but that failure doesn’t seem to penetrate to the core of their sense of self. Taking the approach that narcissism is a stable trait, the Orth and Luciano more or less ruled out the possibility that there could be…

Significant psychological toll from New Zealand COVID-19 lockdown

Significant psychological toll from New Zealand COVID-19 lockdown

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/11/201109110244.htm Dr Susanna Every-Palmer, the Head of the Department of Psychological Medicine at the University of Otago, Wellington, says 30 per cent of those surveyed reported moderate to severe psychological distress and 16 per cent had moderate to high levels of anxiety. Almost 40 per cent said their level of well-being was low. “New Zealand’s…

Sexual abuse survivors talk about how their experiences affected their lives | Survivors Part 2

Continuing on from part 1 of this child abuse series, Uipo Uipo and Kaisalina share their abuse stories and talk about how their experiences influenced their behaviour as adults and affected their relationships. DISCLAIMER: This talanoa deals with sensitive content about sexual abuse

Child sexual abuse survivors open up about abuse | Survivors Part 1

Tagata Pasifika In the first part of this series, host Alistar Kata chats with Uipo Uipo-Tagaloasa, Utumo’u Kaisalina Mealamu and Inu Akarei Maresala-Thomson about their experiences with sexual abuse as children, and why they decided to speak up about it. DISCLAIMER: This talanoa deals with sensitive content about sexual abuse

I eventually told him I was 15 and he said that was OK.

I eventually told him I was 15 and he said that was OK.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/300153970/teacher-accused-of-sexually-grooming-violating-teen-boys-he-met-on-dating-app A teacher picked a 15-year-old boy up from outside his school, drove him to “the middle of nowhere” and tried to have sex with him, a court has heard. Teacher Edwin John Downing is on trial at the High Court in Auckland. He has denied 13 charges, including sexual violation, sexual conduct with a…