Irene De Haan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3936140 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Irene De Haan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Irene |
| FAMILY NAME | De Haan |
| SIGNATURE | DE HAAN I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Auckland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7387-7634 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Recognising child protection social workers’ shifting professional identity after becoming a parent
The article discusses the findings of a small qualitative study of how experienced social workers in child protection roles navigated changes in their professional practice when they returned to work after the birth of their first child. Insider positionality grounded the study in the “messy realities” of transition to parenthood, and facilitated candid discussion of the unexpected impact of parenthood on professional practice. Participants refle…
Drawing out the relationship
This research investigates the use of art-informed methods in social work research to explore collaboration between child protection social workers and other multidisciplinary professionals in New Zealand. The study focuses on these professionals’ perceptions and experiences of multidisciplinary collaboration within a hospital setting. “Drawing and Talking” is employed as an art-based research method, with data comprising 26 drawings created by i…
Te Wāhi Whangai methodology
Te Wāhi Whangai (the nurturing space) is an innovative methodological approach informed by concepts rooted in a Māori worldview. Co-developed by a doctoral student, a kaiako raranga (weaving teacher), and a doctoral supervisory team, it integrates storytelling and healing into research within a therapeutic environment, addressing the necessity for culturally sustaining methodologies that invite wāhine (women) to openly share their stories. Develo…
Socioeconomic Status and Child Maltreatment
A robust body of research examines the association between socioeconomic status (SES), particularly its economic dimension, income poverty, and child maltreatment rates. However, several key questions regarding this relationship remain underexplored. Utilizing a critical literature review, this article finds that some forms of child maltreatment (i.e., sexual abuse) do not correlate with income poverty. Moreover, evidence about the effects of oth…
Problematizing Child Maltreatment
Since all policies address problems, they necessarily include implicit or explicit constructions of these problems. This paper explores how child maltreatment has been constructed in New Zealand’s child protection policies. It questions the underlying assumptions of this problem construction and seeks to shed light on what has been omitted. Utilizing a qualitative content analysis of eight key policy documents, this study reveals the construction…
The Prevalence of Domestic Violence in the Lives of Female Heterosexual Partners of Sex Addicts
This study provides evidence that rates of domestic violence (DV) run considerably higher in the lives of heterosexual women who identify as partners of sex addicts (PSAs) than in the general population. Data collected from 558 survey participants, from a variety of high-income nations, revealed that 92.1% had ever experienced any form of DV perpetrated by their partner and 57.7% had experienced physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence wi…
The tip of the iceberg”
More Nuanced Universal Services for New Parents
Universal services focus on prevention and providing the support to parents that will help them meet the challenges of parenthood and deal with problems before they become entrenched. Many countries now have good universal services available for new families, and significant advances have been made in recent years to recognize the importance of the early years in the optimal development of the child. This article is based on a qualitative study o…
Connecting through chaos
Underage sex work (USW) has been shown to adversely affect adolescents’ physical and psychological wellbeing; however, little is known about the lives of sex‐working adolescents or their needs for services. This study involved semi‐structured interviews with eight adolescents who began sex work between the ages of 12 and 16. It was found that caregivers’ characteristics, attachment disruption and early trauma intersected with participants’ wider …
Another Pandora's box? Some pros and cons of predictive risk modeling
Focus on stability
This article reports on a sample of young New Zealand children under two years of age entering care in 2005 ( n = 228) and follows their progress over a five-year period. The study, the first of its kind in New Zealand, used a clinical data mining method to focus particularly on issues of stability, continuity and permanency. In these areas the research findings were generally positive for this cohort of children. Most children had only one or tw…
Addressing Child Maltreatment in New Zealand
Jonathan Boston provides an insightful analysis of the emergence and persistence of child poverty in New Zealand (Boston, 2014, Educational Philosophy and Theory). His remarks on why child poverty matters are brief but, as he reports, “[t]here is a large and robust body of research on the harmful consequences of child poverty” (Boston 2014, pp. 10–11). One cost he does not explicitly mention is the increased risk of maltreatment faced by children…
The safety of young children in care
When children are looked after in public care it is critical that they remain free from abuse. Understanding the safety of such children is important both to the child’s well-being and to the continued improvement of the care system. This article explores the research relating to the safety of young children in care and reports on a five-year follow-up study of 228 New Zealand children who entered care when under two years of age in 2005. Based o…
The tip of the iceberg”
Another Pandora's box? Some pros and cons of predictive risk modeling
Socioeconomic Status and Child Maltreatment
A robust body of research examines the association between socioeconomic status (SES), particularly its economic dimension, income poverty, and child maltreatment rates. However, several key questions regarding this relationship remain underexplored. Utilizing a critical literature review, this article finds that some forms of child maltreatment (i.e., sexual abuse) do not correlate with income poverty. Moreover, evidence about the effects of oth…
Problematizing Child Maltreatment
Since all policies address problems, they necessarily include implicit or explicit constructions of these problems. This paper explores how child maltreatment has been constructed in New Zealand’s child protection policies. It questions the underlying assumptions of this problem construction and seeks to shed light on what has been omitted. Utilizing a qualitative content analysis of eight key policy documents, this study reveals the construction…
Addressing Child Maltreatment in New Zealand
Jonathan Boston provides an insightful analysis of the emergence and persistence of child poverty in New Zealand (Boston, 2014, Educational Philosophy and Theory). His remarks on why child poverty matters are brief but, as he reports, “[t]here is a large and robust body of research on the harmful consequences of child poverty” (Boston 2014, pp. 10–11). One cost he does not explicitly mention is the increased risk of maltreatment faced by children…
The safety of young children in care
When children are looked after in public care it is critical that they remain free from abuse. Understanding the safety of such children is important both to the child’s well-being and to the continued improvement of the care system. This article explores the research relating to the safety of young children in care and reports on a five-year follow-up study of 228 New Zealand children who entered care when under two years of age in 2005. Based o…
Another Pandora's box? Some pros and cons of predictive risk modeling
Focus on stability
This article reports on a sample of young New Zealand children under two years of age entering care in 2005 ( n = 228) and follows their progress over a five-year period. The study, the first of its kind in New Zealand, used a clinical data mining method to focus particularly on issues of stability, continuity and permanency. In these areas the research findings were generally positive for this cohort of children. Most children had only one or tw…
Addressing Child Maltreatment in New Zealand
Jonathan Boston provides an insightful analysis of the emergence and persistence of child poverty in New Zealand (Boston, 2014, Educational Philosophy and Theory). His remarks on why child poverty matters are brief but, as he reports, “[t]here is a large and robust body of research on the harmful consequences of child poverty” (Boston 2014, pp. 10–11). One cost he does not explicitly mention is the increased risk of maltreatment faced by children…
Connecting through chaos
Underage sex work (USW) has been shown to adversely affect adolescents’ physical and psychological wellbeing; however, little is known about the lives of sex‐working adolescents or their needs for services. This study involved semi‐structured interviews with eight adolescents who began sex work between the ages of 12 and 16. It was found that caregivers’ characteristics, attachment disruption and early trauma intersected with participants’ wider …
The tip of the iceberg”
More Nuanced Universal Services for New Parents
Universal services focus on prevention and providing the support to parents that will help them meet the challenges of parenthood and deal with problems before they become entrenched. Many countries now have good universal services available for new families, and significant advances have been made in recent years to recognize the importance of the early years in the optimal development of the child. This article is based on a qualitative study o…
The Prevalence of Domestic Violence in the Lives of Female Heterosexual Partners of Sex Addicts
This study provides evidence that rates of domestic violence (DV) run considerably higher in the lives of heterosexual women who identify as partners of sex addicts (PSAs) than in the general population. Data collected from 558 survey participants, from a variety of high-income nations, revealed that 92.1% had ever experienced any form of DV perpetrated by their partner and 57.7% had experienced physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence wi…
Problematizing Child Maltreatment
Since all policies address problems, they necessarily include implicit or explicit constructions of these problems. This paper explores how child maltreatment has been constructed in New Zealand’s child protection policies. It questions the underlying assumptions of this problem construction and seeks to shed light on what has been omitted. Utilizing a qualitative content analysis of eight key policy documents, this study reveals the construction…
Te Wāhi Whangai methodology
Te Wāhi Whangai (the nurturing space) is an innovative methodological approach informed by concepts rooted in a Māori worldview. Co-developed by a doctoral student, a kaiako raranga (weaving teacher), and a doctoral supervisory team, it integrates storytelling and healing into research within a therapeutic environment, addressing the necessity for culturally sustaining methodologies that invite wāhine (women) to openly share their stories. Develo…
Socioeconomic Status and Child Maltreatment
A robust body of research examines the association between socioeconomic status (SES), particularly its economic dimension, income poverty, and child maltreatment rates. However, several key questions regarding this relationship remain underexplored. Utilizing a critical literature review, this article finds that some forms of child maltreatment (i.e., sexual abuse) do not correlate with income poverty. Moreover, evidence about the effects of oth…
Recognising child protection social workers’ shifting professional identity after becoming a parent
The article discusses the findings of a small qualitative study of how experienced social workers in child protection roles navigated changes in their professional practice when they returned to work after the birth of their first child. Insider positionality grounded the study in the “messy realities” of transition to parenthood, and facilitated candid discussion of the unexpected impact of parenthood on professional practice. Participants refle…
Drawing out the relationship
This research investigates the use of art-informed methods in social work research to explore collaboration between child protection social workers and other multidisciplinary professionals in New Zealand. The study focuses on these professionals’ perceptions and experiences of multidisciplinary collaboration within a hospital setting. “Drawing and Talking” is employed as an art-based research method, with data comprising 26 drawings created by i…
Psychology (12 works) · Child Abuse and Trauma (8 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Child Welfare and Adoption (5 works) · Developmental psychology (5 works) · Poison control (5 works) · Criminology (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Psychiatry (4 works)