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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 SexualContinue Reading

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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 oneContinue Reading

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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.Continue Reading

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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 beContinue Reading

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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 theContinue Reading

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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 ofContinue Reading

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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 abuseContinue Reading

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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 abuseContinue Reading

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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 sexualContinue Reading

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https://www.forbes.com/sites/nickmorrison/2020/10/20/anti-bullying-programs-in-schools-may-do-more-harm-than-good/?sh=167990ff38e0 But there is little evidence that it was the peer interventions themselves that caused the bullying to stop, and no indication that training peers to intervene would have the same effect as spontaneous interventions based on feelings of empathy and injustice, according to the researcher behind the new study.Continue Reading