12.1 Appendix One
Socio-demographic Characteristics of Missing Persons Based on National
Survey (Henderson, Henderson, & Kiernan, 2000, p. 2).
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Percentage
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Gender
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Male
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49
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Female
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51
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Total
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100
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Age
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10 and under
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5
|
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11 to 17
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62
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18 to 25
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|
13
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26 to 40
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8
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41 to 60
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8
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Over 60
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|
5
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Total
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101
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Country of Birth
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Australia
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86
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Other English speaking countries
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10
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Non English speaking countries
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4
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Total
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100
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Labour Force Status
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Currently employed
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19
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Unemployed
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11
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Full-time student
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60
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Not employed – other reason
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10
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Total
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100
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Marital Status
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Never married
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87
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Married or de facto relationships
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9
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Divorced or separated
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3
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Widowed
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|
1
|
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Total
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100
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Where Living
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City or its suburbs
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|
78
|
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Rural town
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15
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Country town
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7
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Total
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100
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Lived in own home (alone or shared)
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18
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Lived in parental home
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66
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Lived with other non-spouse relative
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8
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Other
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8
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Total
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100
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12.2 Appendix Two
Circumstances of the Missing Person Incident Based on National Survey
(Henderson et al., 2000, p. 3).
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Percentage
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Place Last Seen
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Own home
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54
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Other person’s home
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6
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School or travel to/from school
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|
14
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A public place (including public transport)
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|
9
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Other
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|
7
|
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Not known/not stated
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|
10
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Total
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100
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|
Time of Day Last Seen
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Morning (6-11am)
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23
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Afternoon (midday-5pm)
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18
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Evening (6-11pm)
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20
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Night (midnight-5am)
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2
|
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Daytime (exact time not known)
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10
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Night-time (exact time not known)
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|
3
|
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Not known/not stated
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|
24
|
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Total
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100
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Day of Week Last Seen
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Saturday or Sunday
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|
20
|
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Friday
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20
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Other weekday
|
|
43
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Not known/not stated
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|
17
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Total
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100
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|
Relationship of Person Making Report
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Parent
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|
72
|
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Spouse
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4
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Other Relative
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|
18
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Other Person
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3
|
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Not known/not stated
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|
3
|
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Total
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100
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Missing in Company
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Went missing in company with another person
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|
16
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Total
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16
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12.3 Appendix Three
Reasons Believed and Explanations Given for Persons Going Missing Based
on Survey (Henderson et al., 2000, p. 3)
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Category
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Reasoned Believed (percentage)
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Explanation Given (percentage)
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Independence/rebellion (for example, rebellion against parental
authority, wanting to be independent, responding to peer pressure,
conflict over family rules)
|
21
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24
|
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|
|
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Safety concerns (for example, suicide, abduction, accident or non-specific
concerns over self-harm or harm by others)
|
19
|
1
|
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|
|
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Unintentional (for example, confusion over times/arrangements to
meet, wandering/lost because of dementia, forgetting to advise others
of a planned absence)
|
6
|
22
|
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|
|
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Escaping adverse consequences (for example, to avoid adverse consequences
such as financial difficulties, threat of violence, parental discipline
for specific infraction)
|
11
|
12
|
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|
|
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Other
|
11
|
14
|
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Non-specific
|
15
|
8
|
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None given/not known
|
17
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19
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Total
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100
|
100
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12.4 Appendix Four
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
This focuses on:
- The use of a reward system to encourage the person to stop the
unhealthy behaviour, and/or increase positive behaviours, like attending
self-help or support groups and making steps to find employment
- Helping people to recognise the benefits they can experience
by changing their behaviour
- Developing inner strengths, capabilities, personal resources
and potential
- Helping people to recognise risky situations and environments,
and use coping skills to avoid unhealthy behaviours.
Narrative Therapy
Narrative Therapy is an approach to counselling and community work. It
centres people as the experts in their own lives and views problems
as separate from people. Narrative Therapy assumes that people have
many
skills, competencies, beliefs, values, commitments and abilities
that will assist them to reduce the influence of problems in their
lives.
The word ‘narrative’ refers to the emphasis that is placed
upon the stories of people’s lives and the differences that
can be made through particular tellings and retellings of these stories.
Narrative Therapy involves ways of understanding the stories of people’s
lives, and ways of re-authoring these stories in collaboration with
the therapist / community worker and the people whose lives are being
discussed.
It is a way of working that is interested in history, the broader
context that is affecting people’s lives and the ethics or
politics of therapy. These are some of the themes which make up what
has come to
be known as ‘Narrative Therapy’. Of course, different
people engage with these themes in their own ways. Some people choose
to refer
to ‘Narrative Practices’ rather than ‘Narrative
Therapy’ as
they believe that the phrase ‘Narrative Therapy’ is somewhat
limiting of an endeavour which is constantly changing and being engaged
with in many different contexts .
Personal Construct Theory
Therapy that uses Personal Construct Theory helps people to develop different
understandings of their situation. When we have trouble understanding
the circumstances we face we often feel like we have little control
over our lives. Those who offer this kind of therapy might ask clients
to
put aside their former understanding of their situation and form new
constructs. Constructs are formed by the way we see relationships between
things; so it is possible to re-construct experiences by relating to
things in different ways, as well as seeking new experiences. By developing
different constructs we develop a different understanding of our situation
and this helps us to feel a greater sense of control in our lives .
