Book Reviews

Scotty Morrison's 'Māori Made Easy' series is full of innovative strategies for anyone wanting to learn te reo Māori.

A guide to identifying depression in older people and supporting them at home or in an aged care setting.

Māori clinicians and researchers explore the relationship between Māori culture and Māori mental health.

A beautiful book, designed to be read with children who have experienced the loss of a loved one by suicide.

This story not only describes Flo's day but also highlights memory and focus skills in a day-to-day setting that kids can practice.

Encouraging children to become familiar with experiencing and talking about emotions.

Report outlining the Inspiring Communities thinking, learning, examples and results from community-led activity.

Shows how leaders can have confident mental health conversations that support the wellbeing of people in their workplace.

I Am Autistic helps people feel less alone in their autism and brings knowledge to an often-misunderstood condition.

A series of stories from young New Zealanders and a new way to address wellbeing and the battle with depression.

To help your children learn to recognise and label their own emotions and broaden their emotional literacy.

Through this creative guidebook, environmental activist Ehlers offers ways for readers to change their perspective as a path to overcome challenges.

In these rigorous and challenging essays, writers from Aotearoa and Turtle Island (Canada and the United States of America) explore the well-being of takatāpui, two-spirit, and Māori and Indigenous LGBTQI+ communities.

A collection of stories by New Zealanders with experience of anxiety.

A critique of the car-focused city and a case for a new approach to urban design and planning.

Author Julie Zarifeh’s account of learning to live with grief, plus her experience as a clinical psychologist, make this an inspirational and ultimately uplifting read.