Browsing Doctoral Theses by Thesis Supervisor "Smythe, Elizabeth"
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The contribution of the mental health support worker to the mental health services in New Zealand: an Appreciative Inquiry approach
(Auckland University of Technology, 2015)The discipline of mental health support work in New Zealand comprises a significant part of the total mental health workforce. This study explored the contribution of mental health support workers taking an Appreciative ... -
The experience of burnout in case loading midwives
(Auckland University of Technology, 2011)Midwifery autonomy is epitomized in the provision of lead maternity care, a promoted and sought after consumer choice pivotal to the credibility of autonomous midwifery. The loss of experienced New Zealand midwives to ... -
The Experience of Living With Bowel Cancer for Māori in Taranaki
(Auckland University of Technology, 2016)The title of this study is: The experience of living with bowel cancer for Māori in Taranaki. Research methods for this study have been adapted from research approaches collectively known as Kaupapa Māori. The study is ... -
Exploring Student-Teacher Relational Connectedness Within Midwifery Education: A Phenomenological Inquiry
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)This Heideggerian hermeneutic study asks the question: How does the teacher’s way of being and relational connectedness in the student-teacher relationship impact on learning? It reclaims the significance of the human and ... -
Exploring the teacher-student relationship in teacher education: a hermeneutic phenomenological inquiry
(Auckland University of Technology, 2008)The relationship between teacher and student has always been a central interest of the educational process. While the nature of this relationship can be understood from various theoretical frameworks, research that seeks ... -
Food Practices and Diabetes Management: The Lived Experience of Tongan People With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in New Zealand
(Auckland University of Technology, 2022)Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) is an alarming and growing global epidemic that is particularly prevalent throughout the Pacific region. T2DM disproportionately affects Pacific, Asian and Māori peoples here in Aotearoa New ... -
A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Study Into the Midwife-Woman Relationship
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)Research shows that the midwife-woman relationship is important. Taking a hermeneutic phenomenological approach this study drew on the work of Heidegger and Gadamer to uncover understandings of the professional relationship ... -
Improving pedagogical practices with undergraduate nursing students in high-fidelity simulation
(Auckland University of Technology, 2015)Nurse educators are required to consider how to best prepare students in order to avoid injury to patients presenting with complex conditions. This study examined one nurse educator’s question: “How can I improve my ... -
Out of the Room: a Phenomenological Study into the Lived Experiences of Becoming and Being a Counsellor-leader
(Auckland University of Technology, 2018)The purpose of this study is to explore the lived experiences of becoming and being a counsellor-leader, in order to understand and see the phenomenon. The notion of the counsellor-leader is not widely studied or discussed ... -
The Rise (and Suggested Demise) of Occupation-based Models of Practice
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)The diagrammatic models used to represent occupation-based theories are common entities in occupational therapy, with at least six English versions in existence. Each one of these models seeks to represent and explain the ... -
Supporting Mental Health Recovery for Māori Whaiora: The Success Stories of Māori Whaiora and Non-Māori Clinicians
(Auckland University of Technology, 2015)Māori people experiencing mental health issues have been historically under-served by mental health services. In the last three decades the development of Kaupapa Māori health services has provided a culturally responsive ... -
Thrive: Accentuating the Positive in the Emergency Department
(Auckland University of Technology, 2018)The Emergency Department is a melting pot of almost every aspect of humanity. It can be a place of pain, disease, despair, and death. It can be a place of overloaded systems where increasing patient numbers and need can ... -
Understanding Psychotherapists' Experience of Ongoing Learning
(Auckland University of Technology, 2017)This study explores the phenomenon of psychotherapists’ experience of ongoing learning. Psychotherapy has a clinical case-based history and, therefore, a knowledge base that is founded on clinical work. Amongst psychotherapists ... -
What Enables Safeguards and Sustains Midwives Who Provide Labour Care in Primary Units in Aotearoa - New Zealand
(Auckland University of Technology, 2017)Primary maternity units hold an important place in contemporary Aotearoa-New Zealand and other high-income countries. Despite research evidence revealing that low-risk women have a greater chance of normal birth with fewer ... -
What Is 'Good Care' in a Medical/Surgical Setting? A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Study
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)This research explores the nature of ‘good’ care in medical/surgical wards. A Heideggerian, hermeneutic phenomenological philosophical and methodological approach was used. Heidegger’s philosophy privileges ontological ... -
What is shaping the practice of health professionals and the understanding of the public in relation to increasing intervention in childbirth?
(Auckland University of Technology, 2007)The increasing rates of intervention in childbirth are an issue for women, their families, health professionals, and society across much of the Western World. This study is a response to these increasing rates of intervention, ...