Robert J Gregory
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 106985 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Robert J Gregory |
| PRENOMES | Robert J |
| SOBRENOME | Gregory |
| ASSINATURA | GREGORY R J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Massey University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9284-6067 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 89 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 127 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 89 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1972 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Recovery-based suicide prevention
Suicide has become an urgent public health crisis in the United States. The age-adjusted suicide rate increased by 36% between 2000 and 2022 (1). In 2023, suicide was among the top eight leading causes of death for people ages 10-64 and the second leading cause of death for people ages 10-34 (1).The dominant treatment model in the U.S. for suicidality involves somatic treatments (primarily medication) and psychotherapy to manage psychiatric condi…
Dynamic Deconstructive Psychotherapy for Suicidal Adolescents
Suicidal behavior and demand for services have been increasing in adolescents. Many of the current treatments are focused on symptom mitigation, crisis management, and safety planning; however, few are aimed at remediating underlying vulnerabilities that may be contributing to suicide risk. Dynamic Deconstructive Psychotherapy (DDP) has been found to be effective for suicidal adults but has never been studied for adolescents. The present study ex…
Historical corruption in a ‘non-corrupt’ society
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to reconsider, from a historical perspective, New Zealand’s reputation as a country largely without corruption, with particular reference to the colonial government’s confiscation of Māori land in the 19 th century and beyond. Design/methodology/approach This paper is based on published historical commentary. Findings The findings are that much of the Māori land confiscation was rendered legal for illegitimate…
Dynamic deconstructive psychotherapy in Iran
Several psychotherapy models for borderline personality disorder (BPD) have demonstrated efficacy in randomized controlled trials (RCT). However, these treatment models were developed in Western countries and have seldom been evaluated in non-Western countries, such as Iran. Dynamic deconstructive psychotherapy (DDP) is a weekly individual psychotherapy that has demonstrated efficacy in clinical trials, but its efficacy has never been tested by a…
A Randomized Trial of Dynamic Deconstructive Psychotherapy in Iran for Borderline Personality Disorder
New Public Management and the Ghost of Max Weber
When someone once complained to German polymath, Max Weber, that his writings were extremely difficult to read, he responded by asking why they should be easy to read when they were so difficult for him to write. Whether or not this quip actually came from Weber’s lips, it can be safely asserted that many of those who know of Weber’s writings have read commentaries on them rather than the original texts
The Milgram-Holocaust Linkage
Stanley Milgram's assertion that his “Obedience to Authority” (OTA) experiments replicated, in a laboratory setting, quintessential features of perpetrator behaviour during the Holocaust has been widely challenged. Most contemporary scholarship on this issue, known as the “Milgram-Holocaust (M-H) linkage”, argues that Milgram's experiments failed to capture important factors such as ideology, policy, bureaucracy and technology, which more fully e…
Naturalistic Outcomes of Evidence-Based Therapies for Borderline Personality Disorder at a University Clinic
Accountability in Modern Government
Spinning an Organizational “Web of Obligation”? Moral Choice in Stanley Milgram’s “Obedience” Experiments
Drawing on unpublished documents from his personal archive at Yale University, this article explains how social psychologist and political scientist Stanley Milgram’s new baseline procedure both coerced and tempted most participants into completing his so-called Obedience to Authority (OTA) experiment. This procedure relies cumulatively on a range of manipulative and seductive psychological techniques that progressively and systematically induced…
Public Policy
This article discusses the nature of the political, rather than technical, rationality that lies at the heart of most public policymaking. There is a strong tendency in liberal democracies to fudge the realities of political power and disguise them behind technocratic approaches to policymaking which appear to be politically neutral. The study and teaching of public policymaking is enlivened and made more relevant by a full and open recognition o…
A Controlled Trial of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy for Co-Occurring Borderline Personality Disorder and Alcohol Use Disorder
Chasing Shadows? Performance Measurement of Policy Advice in New Zealand Government Departments
Performance measurement is an integral part of the New Zealand model of public management, as it is for many other modern systems of governmental administration. This article examines data on performance indicators for the policy advice function in five government departments, for the years 1992 to 2005, to determine which types of indicators are used, and to gauge the extent to which they offer meaningful information about the quality of policy …
Accountability or Countability? Performance Measurement in the New Zealand Public Service, 1992–2002
This article examines how output classes and performance indicators have changed between 1992 and 2002 in five selected departments of the New Zealand Public Service. Process, output and largely artificial service quality performance measures have crowded out outcome, efficiency and effectiveness indicators, across the board. Both output classes and performance indicators have been highly labile, though the reasons for this remain speculative in …
Community Psychology at Orewa Beach
Understanding the elements that contribute to a community’s wellbeing, and in turn, the development of a sense of community is one of the key tasks in community psychology. Investigating the challenges and opportunities that either contribute or hinder a sense of community and development is an ongoing process. In applied anthropology and community psychology, the people and place are obviously central. Community psychology is concerned with the …
Factitious disorder on an inpatient psychiatry ward
The authors present 6 cases of factitious disorder seen on a general adult inpatient psychiatry unit of a university hospital. They review the clinical features of this disorder and suggest that factitious disorder is much more prevalent among psychiatric inpatients than is commonly recognized. Strategies to assist in the diagnosis and management this disorder are detailed
Psychodynamic Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder and Co-Occurring Alcohol Use Disorders
Governmental Corruption and Social Change in New Zealand
New Zealand has long enjoyed a reputation as a country with a corruption-free state sector, and ranks very highly on the Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index (meaning its corruption levels are perceived to be extremely low). However, there is prima facie evidence to suggest that this situation may be changing, not dramatically but significantly. While the state sector changes of the 1980s and early 1990s may be having some im…
A Brief Overview of the Old New Hebrides
A “quick and dirty” ethnography of a specific time and place offers a valuable overview along with many leads forsubsequent follow-up research projects. This review of the island chain now called Vanuatu covers some of the basics of preindependenceNew Hebridean structure, function and life. As such, this perspective was of enormous value to the researchersinvolved in subsequent and parallel studies of the John Frum Cargo Cult and the educational …
Making the Undoable Doable
This article interprets Stanley Milgram's laboratory experiments on obedience, and their significance in understanding the Holocaust and the ways by which governmental systems enable people to do things they would otherwise find undoable. Milgram tended to conflate “proximity”—between participants and learners—and sensory perception, and overlooked the difference between physical and emotional distance. Neither Milgram nor his commentators have f…
Strategies for Building Ecologically Aware and Active Communities
Communities have rich networks of social relationships if and when they are flourishing economically and politically. In hard times, however, the various groupings within a community may splinter and fragment, resulting in little communication, and few relationships. Television has undoubtedly contributed to this breakdown in many communities, but so too do declines in the economy, divisive political or social issues, and natural or man made disa…
Putting Ecology to Use in the Community
Understanding the ecological relationship of child abuse and violence in society with the specific features of particular communities calls for analysis. Analysis, however, to be effective must be followed with planning and action. The community selected for study here has a median income lower than the national average and a high proportion of persons receiving an annual income of less than $20,000. The community also has a higher number of pers…
Rethinking Clinical Models and Coping with Disaster
Clinical models, as in medicine and psychology, assume that the majority of people in a given setting are performing well, and that only a few are having trouble, due to personal deficits that can be alleviated by expert diagnosis and treatment. In parallel, on a larger scale for our communities and nations, coping with disaster assumes that a community is, on the whole, basically fine, although an occasional temporary disaster may occur. Such di…
Local or Tribal Decision-making Given Global Uncertainty
Communities, tribes and individuals operate as best they can within the parameters of a larger environment surrounding and influencing them. Recent trends indicate an increasing number of large-scale issues that can and frequently do impact on local situations and individuals. Trying to negotiate a meaningful and satisfactory way through these perilous times and issues that can have enormous impact calls for strategies to minimize harm, and maxim…
Penina Uliuli
Chasing Shadows? Performance Measurement of Policy Advice in New Zealand Government Departments
Performance measurement is an integral part of the New Zealand model of public management, as it is for many other modern systems of governmental administration. This article examines data on performance indicators for the policy advice function in five government departments, for the years 1992 to 2005, to determine which types of indicators are used, and to gauge the extent to which they offer meaningful information about the quality of policy …
The Attitudes of Senior Public Servants in Australia and New Zealand
This article is in the tradition of comparative international research conducted over recent years into changing political‐bureaucratic role relations. Its focus is the attitudinal orientation held toward various dimensions of their work by senior public servants in Canberra and Wellington. In particular, it is concerned to gauge officials' tolerance for pluralistic politics, their programmatic commitment, democratic sensibilities, and identifica…
Political Responsibility For Bureaucratic Incompetence
In April 1995 a viewing platform built by the Department of Conservation collapsed at a New Zealand wilderness location, Cave Creek, plummeting 14 people to their deaths. The tragedy was unprecedented in New Zealand public administration. This article examines the concepts of political accountability and responsibility in the light of the disaster and the findings of the commission of inquiry into it. It does so with reference to the New Zealand …
A New Zealand Tragedy
New Zealand's state sector reforms, designed to enhance accountability and efficiency, have attracted considerable international attention. However, an unprecedented tragedy in April 1995 involving the deaths of 14 young people, and which resulted from the failings of the department of conservation, has raised doubts about whether the reforms actually clarified or clouded issues of political and managerial responsibility
Spinning an Organizational “Web of Obligation”? Moral Choice in Stanley Milgram’s “Obedience” Experiments
Drawing on unpublished documents from his personal archive at Yale University, this article explains how social psychologist and political scientist Stanley Milgram’s new baseline procedure both coerced and tempted most participants into completing his so-called Obedience to Authority (OTA) experiment. This procedure relies cumulatively on a range of manipulative and seductive psychological techniques that progressively and systematically induced…
The Peculiar Tasks of Public Management
Recent contributions to AJPA have suggested new conceptual directions for public management in response to the stand‐off between managerialists and their critics. In emphasising the inherent political dimensions of public management, this article seeks to build on these contributions. It does so by combining some of the insights of previous contributors with a simple matrix devised originally by American scholar James Q Wilson. The central propos…
Making the Undoable Doable
This article interprets Stanley Milgram's laboratory experiments on obedience, and their significance in understanding the Holocaust and the ways by which governmental systems enable people to do things they would otherwise find undoable. Milgram tended to conflate “proximity”—between participants and learners—and sensory perception, and overlooked the difference between physical and emotional distance. Neither Milgram nor his commentators have f…
Paradoxes and Pendulum Swings
Under New Zealand's radical state sector reforms, ‘empowered’ managers are held accountable in an arm's length way by politicians and control agencies through the use of clearly stated objectives and the availability of quality information about progress towards those objectives. However, empirical research indicates that this thermostatic metaphor embodies a number of paradoxes. A great deal of international attention has been paid to these refo…
Similar Ends, Differing Means
State sector reform was an integral component of the radical economic and social policy changes enacted by New Zealand governments between 1984 and 1991. This reform replaced the traditional tenured public service with a contractual regime. Through a comparison with Denmark, it is shown that New Zealand's reforms were not unique. Similar reforms were enacted in Denmark. But contrary to what occurred in New Zealand, the Danish reforms had already …
Post-Reform Attitudes of New Zealand’s Senior Public Servants
After the Reforms
Major public sector changes in Australia and New Zealand over the past decade have produced significant shifts in the beliefs, training and outlook of public servants. Using data from surveys in 1986–87 and 1994–95, this article tracks key attitudinal changes. It finds more marked change in Wellington than in Canberra, perhaps reflecting the more radical public sector agenda on that side of the Tasman
Governmental corruption in New Zealand
New Zealand has long enjoyed a reputation as a country with a corruption‐free state sector. However, social change and the state sector reforms of the 1980s and 1990s, have rendered that status less secure. While hard‐core corruption does not yet appear to be a major problem, what constitutes corruption can be a function of changing public perceptions and attitudes. Four main types of behaviour of public officials are identified, all of which hav…
Promoting Public Service Integrity
We discuss below difference between the concepts of accountability and responsibility, in the context of government administration. We argue that New Zealand’s public sector reforms, in particular, have depended on an essentially mechanistic as distinct from an organic interpretation of public organisations. A mechanistic approach focuses disproportionately on notions of organisational accountability at the expense of responsibility, and as a con…
Accountability or Countability? Performance Measurement in the New Zealand Public Service, 1992–2002
This article examines how output classes and performance indicators have changed between 1992 and 2002 in five selected departments of the New Zealand Public Service. Process, output and largely artificial service quality performance measures have crowded out outcome, efficiency and effectiveness indicators, across the board. Both output classes and performance indicators have been highly labile, though the reasons for this remain speculative in …
The spirit and substance of community psychology
Community psychology began with a spirit of participation, social change, and excitement in the mid‐1960s. However, the substance of community psychology, whether measured by impacts on prevention, empowerment, social inclusion, or otherwise, appears to be minimal in comparison with the needs evident today and the needs emerging. From the perspective of members of the discipline and field, a great deal of effort has already resulted in many meani…
The Milgram-Holocaust Linkage
Stanley Milgram's assertion that his “Obedience to Authority” (OTA) experiments replicated, in a laboratory setting, quintessential features of perpetrator behaviour during the Holocaust has been widely challenged. Most contemporary scholarship on this issue, known as the “Milgram-Holocaust (M-H) linkage”, argues that Milgram's experiments failed to capture important factors such as ideology, policy, bureaucracy and technology, which more fully e…
Public Policy
This article discusses the nature of the political, rather than technical, rationality that lies at the heart of most public policymaking. There is a strong tendency in liberal democracies to fudge the realities of political power and disguise them behind technocratic approaches to policymaking which appear to be politically neutral. The study and teaching of public policymaking is enlivened and made more relevant by a full and open recognition o…
Governmental Corruption and Social Change in New Zealand
New Zealand has long enjoyed a reputation as a country with a corruption-free state sector, and ranks very highly on the Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index (meaning its corruption levels are perceived to be extremely low). However, there is prima facie evidence to suggest that this situation may be changing, not dramatically but significantly. While the state sector changes of the 1980s and early 1990s may be having some im…
Kava
A research project may link up with a life-long career to expand slowly both inwards and externally. In the present case, a project studying the use of Kava and the relationship of this drug to cults, has led the principal investigator to reflect on the personal inner search and the wider network of relationships that developed over subsequent decades. Reflections on research projects during the course of a career may be intriguing both for deepe…
Essay
To the rescue of child advocacy
A FORTRAN Computer Program for the Fisher Exact Probability Test
PERHAPS the most common use of the chi-square statistic is to test whether an observed breakdown of frequencies in a 2 X 2 contingency table could have been achieved under the null hy-pothesis. A sampling of major texts in inferential statistics (Siegel
A Critical Appraisal of the Restructuring of the NZBC
(1974). A Critical Appraisal of the Restructuring of the NABC. Political Science: Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 68-78
An advocacy system for children
One of the more troubling paradoxes of our time is the apparent positive correlation between human misery and the accumulation of knowledge and skills for the alleviation of that misery. Our increasing knowledge about human institutions is not accompanied by reduction in our failure to have meaningful social participation. Inner city violence, fundamental breakdown in family life, etc., suggest the extent of the failure of some of our most basic …
The Enduring Asylum
On Not Going Home
What a writer gets from another writer is hard to specify; if the question is pursued commonsensically, often enough the results are banal, and if pursued speculatively, more or less dream-like. The most interesting questions are often the most elusive; especially so if the relation one is pursuing involves a repressed reading-that is, a reading in which a certain contradiction is made to disappear. Freud explained sucha repression as follows: sa…
Reading as Narcissism
The Attitudes of Senior Public Servants in Australia and New Zealand
This article is in the tradition of comparative international research conducted over recent years into changing political‐bureaucratic role relations. Its focus is the attitudinal orientation held toward various dimensions of their work by senior public servants in Canberra and Wellington. In particular, it is concerned to gauge officials' tolerance for pluralistic politics, their programmatic commitment, democratic sensibilities, and identifica…
The Peculiar Tasks of Public Management
Recent contributions to AJPA have suggested new conceptual directions for public management in response to the stand‐off between managerialists and their critics. In emphasising the inherent political dimensions of public management, this article seeks to build on these contributions. It does so by combining some of the insights of previous contributors with a simple matrix devised originally by American scholar James Q Wilson. The central propos…
Post-Reform Attitudes of New Zealand’s Senior Public Servants
After the Reforms
Major public sector changes in Australia and New Zealand over the past decade have produced significant shifts in the beliefs, training and outlook of public servants. Using data from surveys in 1986–87 and 1994–95, this article tracks key attitudinal changes. It finds more marked change in Wellington than in Canberra, perhaps reflecting the more radical public sector agenda on that side of the Tasman
Put Something in Their Basket
In the present paper barter and informal aid formal networks for trade among the “Kastom” people who followed ancient traditions has been reported
Political Responsibility For Bureaucratic Incompetence
In April 1995 a viewing platform built by the Department of Conservation collapsed at a New Zealand wilderness location, Cave Creek, plummeting 14 people to their deaths. The tragedy was unprecedented in New Zealand public administration. This article examines the concepts of political accountability and responsibility in the light of the disaster and the findings of the commission of inquiry into it. It does so with reference to the New Zealand …
Essay
A New Zealand Tragedy
New Zealand's state sector reforms, designed to enhance accountability and efficiency, have attracted considerable international attention. However, an unprecedented tragedy in April 1995 involving the deaths of 14 young people, and which resulted from the failings of the department of conservation, has raised doubts about whether the reforms actually clarified or clouded issues of political and managerial responsibility
An Introduction to Ecological Rehabilitation
Central issues of rehabilitation are power, its equitable distribution, and context. People with disabilities have been denied power, and rehabilitation, focused on clinicai approaches to indviduals, has neglected context. The distribution of power ind an ecologically oriented rehabilitation would address this issue of power squarely. This would broaden clinic methods and styles of rehabilitation to include and incorporate social change, relation…
An Ecological Educational Opportunity
Education about ecology need not be complex nor neglected. A simple aquarium, used effectively in an educational programme, can offer opportunity to participate in a wide range of activties which lead towards ecological understanding
Reaction to Chemical Pollution Along the Awapiko
Awareness of chemical pollution in the environment begins with personal experiences, grows With access to information and questions, and result) in activism designed to prevent further abuse and to rehabilitate our human environments Those concerned with chemical pollution need to provide leadership in teaching others, in building support in communities, and in promoting more ecologically appropriate ways to live. The Awapiko Stream Valley (pseud…
Human Ecology and Ecological Humanism
In the present paper the statement on principles of both ecological humanism, is well as human ecology is discussed. This statement is evolved by personal experience and dunking and discussion with friends, colleagues and number of other people
Measuring Counterdependency in Patients With Chronic Pain
OBJECTIVE: Some reports have characterized patients with chronic pain as counterdependent, that is, having emotional suppression, idealization of relationships, strong work ethic, a caregiver role-identity, and self-reliance. However, research has been hampered because formal measures of these traits have been lacking. In this article, we describe a five-item self-report questionnaire, the Counterdependency Scale (CDS), designed to elicit each of…
General System Theory as a Framework to View Religion
The study of religion and religious behavior can be enhanced by use of social science theories and frameworks. One such theory is General Systems Theory, and a brief explanation of a graphic conceptual interpretation of GST is presented. The ideas are then applied to people and finally to religion
A Remembered Elder
An opportunity during fieldwork in a remote location (Tanna, New Hebrides, now Vanuatu) in Melanesia led to a case study of an elderly man. Luwah (Pseudonym) was over 100 years old, and his memories of life as a young man were insightful in to the history of people on this island
Promoting Public Service Integrity
We discuss below difference between the concepts of accountability and responsibility, in the context of government administration. We argue that New Zealand’s public sector reforms, in particular, have depended on an essentially mechanistic as distinct from an organic interpretation of public organisations. A mechanistic approach focuses disproportionately on notions of organisational accountability at the expense of responsibility, and as a con…
Social Capital Theory and Administrative Reform
Over the past decade or so, major public-sector reforms have been implemented in many western democracies. Most of these changes have been driven by the perceived need to shift from traditional, bureaucratic, rules-oriented approaches to a results-centered model. the United States they have been embodied in the so-called reinventing government movement (Kamensky, 1996), and more widely in the model known as new public management (Hood, 1990, 1991…
Lunar and Other Cycles as Steps toward Human Ecology
Lunar cycles may well influence the social patterns in communities, but far more important activities are also taking place, including wars, violence, ecological destruction, and economic disparity Social scientists, researchers and clinicians can and should consider the larger picture in today's world, rather than research activities on sometimes esoteric topics.Key Words: CyclesLunarHuman EcologyResearch
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