Margaret Mckenzie
Biographic Data
| ID | 3589054 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Margaret Mckenzie |
| GIVEN NAMES | Margaret |
| FAMILY NAME | Mckenzie |
| SIGNATURE | MCKENZIE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Otago Polytechnic |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3603-1741 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Warm Eyes’, ‘Warm Breath’, ‘Heart Warmth’
The attributes ‘warm eyes’, ‘breathe warm air’, ‘heart warmth’ and aroha (love) guide our work in child protection. These quotes are from a young person from the Change Factory 2020, a MFAMILY student in 2020 and Jan Erik Henricksen Key Note at the 4th International Indigenous Voices in Social Work Conference, Alta, Norway 2017 respectively, to describe the way young people and families want workers to be. We reflect on the child rights and famil…
Practicing from Theory
Child protection practice in much of the Western world is performed using some specific models with limited attention paid to the underpinning of informing worldviews, theories for practice (explanatory theories) and theories of practice (intervention theories). Over the past few years we have explored how child protection practice may be undertaken using a child rights perspective and community development principles and practices. From this we …
The rights of the child enabling community development to contribute to a valid social work practice with children at risk
This paper presents a way of thinking about and doing child protection work using community development (CD) principles to guide practice. It suggests that a useful addition to CD can be found within the rights of the child provisions in Human Rights conventions. Using examples from the authors' three countries to illustrate the work that practitioners do in their work with children at risk, we argue that social work practice can be enhanced by t…
Restoring and managing natural capital towards fostering economic development
It's a bonus, without it I wouldn't even have a visit’
Supervised contact centres, where a child may maintain contact with a parent (mother or father) in a safe and supervised environment, have been available in New Zealand since the early 1990s. This article explores the services provided by such centres, previous research on the topic and describes the experiences of 12 parents participating in supervised contact arrangements at centres. Parents' overall experiences of supervised contact centres ar…
Biographie
Restoring and managing natural capital towards fostering economic development
The rights of the child enabling community development to contribute to a valid social work practice with children at risk
This paper presents a way of thinking about and doing child protection work using community development (CD) principles to guide practice. It suggests that a useful addition to CD can be found within the rights of the child provisions in Human Rights conventions. Using examples from the authors' three countries to illustrate the work that practitioners do in their work with children at risk, we argue that social work practice can be enhanced by t…
Practicing from Theory
Child protection practice in much of the Western world is performed using some specific models with limited attention paid to the underpinning of informing worldviews, theories for practice (explanatory theories) and theories of practice (intervention theories). Over the past few years we have explored how child protection practice may be undertaken using a child rights perspective and community development principles and practices. From this we …
Biographie
It's a bonus, without it I wouldn't even have a visit’
Supervised contact centres, where a child may maintain contact with a parent (mother or father) in a safe and supervised environment, have been available in New Zealand since the early 1990s. This article explores the services provided by such centres, previous research on the topic and describes the experiences of 12 parents participating in supervised contact arrangements at centres. Parents' overall experiences of supervised contact centres ar…
Restoring and managing natural capital towards fostering economic development
The rights of the child enabling community development to contribute to a valid social work practice with children at risk
This paper presents a way of thinking about and doing child protection work using community development (CD) principles to guide practice. It suggests that a useful addition to CD can be found within the rights of the child provisions in Human Rights conventions. Using examples from the authors' three countries to illustrate the work that practitioners do in their work with children at risk, we argue that social work practice can be enhanced by t…
Practicing from Theory
Child protection practice in much of the Western world is performed using some specific models with limited attention paid to the underpinning of informing worldviews, theories for practice (explanatory theories) and theories of practice (intervention theories). Over the past few years we have explored how child protection practice may be undertaken using a child rights perspective and community development principles and practices. From this we …
Warm Eyes’, ‘Warm Breath’, ‘Heart Warmth’
The attributes ‘warm eyes’, ‘breathe warm air’, ‘heart warmth’ and aroha (love) guide our work in child protection. These quotes are from a young person from the Change Factory 2020, a MFAMILY student in 2020 and Jan Erik Henricksen Key Note at the 4th International Indigenous Voices in Social Work Conference, Alta, Norway 2017 respectively, to describe the way young people and families want workers to be. We reflect on the child rights and famil…
Child Abuse and Trauma (3 works) · Child protection (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Social Work Education and Practice (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Work (physics (3 works) · Best practice (2 works)