The Te Iho Maori Mental Health
Training Website for Registrars

Sorry - we're having some technical problems with the site at present (as you'll maybe have seen, it's been hacked) and we are having to move it across to a new server.  Hopefully it will be up and running again shortly, but rewriting it from scratch is taking a while.

Everything that you need so as to meet the College's Maori Mental Health Training requirements is available here however, in the interim.
    1. If you've already read the material on the website and done the required clinical tasks, and just need to complete the assessments, you can download the word file of the assessments here Assessments in WORD and once completed, you can email them to this email address for critiqueing. 
    2. At any stage in your training you can carry out the clinical tasks that you'll need to write up for the assessments. There are two clinical assessments. Firstly we ask that you talk to a Maori cultural worker or kaumatua about their role (see the Assessments document for details). Secondly, we ask that you write up one case history of a Maori patient whom you have assessed and treated. It's best to pick someone whose whanau were also involved and where you had at least one whanau meeting, and where a Maori cultural advisor was involved. Again, see the Assessments document for details about what we are looking for in the case history.
    3. Finally, here is a pdf file with extracts from the relevant pages of the site to assist you complete the more "academic" aspects of the assessments.
    4. If you have been able to work in a Maori Clinical Team post during your training for at least 3 FTE months, then this is sufficient and you don't need to do the Te Iho assessments as well. However, you could still complete them in Advanced Training, as below.


    Using Te Iho to Achieve a Cultural Management Learning Goal
    (for Advanced Trainees):

    Advanced Trainees are welcome to use some of the Te Iho assessments (if they have not already completed these in Basic Training) to complete a planned Cultural Management Learning Goal. The most appropriate aspects of the assessments are the two Clinical Assessments.

    Exemption Candidates Required to Complete Indigenous Training Experience by the RANZCP:
    Exemption candidates are welcome to complete the Te Iho assessments to satisfy this College requirement. Just use the resources as above, using the same Assessments in WORD format. 

    Using Te Iho information for general orientation:
    Read the pdf file for general orientation if you're from overseas and are, or will be, working in the mental health field in New Zealand.


    - Dr Felicity Plunkett (Te Iho website admin)