AFRC publications and resources by topic
Publications produced by the Australian Family Relationships Clearinghouse (AFRC) are arranged below by topic. Links are also provided to relevant resources and bibliographies of other reports and publications available on the AFRC website.
- Families and relationships
- Relationship formation
- Family statistics and trends: Young adults' attitudes towards marriage AFRC Newsletter No. 12, 2009
- The Partnership program.AFRC Newsletter No. 8, 2008
- Prevention and early intervention in strengthening families and relationships: Challenges and implications. AFRC Issues No. 2, 2008
- Prevention and early intervention in strengthening families and relationships: Challenges and implications.AFRC Resource Sheet No. 2, 2008
- An update on partnership formation trends: What does the 2006 Census suggest? AFRC Newsletter No. 6, 2007
- Stepfamilies: Understanding and responding effectively. AFRC Briefing No. 6, 2007
- Resources: Relationships
- Bibliographies: Relationship formation
- Couples (including marriage, de facto, same sex)
- Family statistics and trends: Attitudes towards marriage and cohabitation. AFRC Newsletter No. 8, 2008
- Prevention and early intervention in strengthening families and relationships: Challenges and implications. AFRC Issues No. 2, 2008
- Prevention and early intervention in strengthening families and relationships: Challenges and implications. AFRC Resource Sheet No. 2, 2008
- Family statistics and trends: Relationships Indicators Survey 2006. AFRC Newsletter No. 4, 2007
- Family statistics and trends: Trends in choice of celebrant. AFRC Newsletter No. 3, 2007
- Recent progress in marriage and relationship education in Australia. AFRC Briefing No. 3, 2007
- Resources: Trends and statistics
- Bibliographies: Cohabitation, Marriage
- Families - general
- Telephone counselling and therapy in family relationship services AFRC Newsletter No. 13, 2009
- Prevention and early intervention in strengthening families and relationships: Challenges and implications. AFRC Issues No. 2, 2008
- Prevention and early intervention in strengthening families and relationships: Challenges and implications. AFRC Resource Sheet No. 2, 2008
- Family statistics and trends: A snapshot of how Australian families spend their time. AFRC Newsletter No. 5, 2007
- Resources: Trends and statistics
- Definitions and historical views of family
- Strengthening Aboriginal family functioning: What works and why?AFRC Briefing No. 7, 2008
- Prevention and early intervention in strengthening families and relationships: Challenges and implications. AFRC Issues No. 2, 2008
- Prevention and early intervention in strengthening families and relationships: Challenges and implications. AFRC Resource Sheet No. 2, 2008
- Stepfamilies: Understanding and responding effectively. AFRC Briefing No. 6, 2007
- Living arrangements
- Bibliographies: Living arrangements
- Indigenous families
- Program spotlight. Hey Dad! For Indigenous Dads, Uncles and Pops AFRC Newsletter No. 12, 2009
- Book review: 'Remember Me': Commemorating the tenth anniversary of the bringing them home report. AFRC Newsletter No. 8, 2008
- Strengthening Aboriginal family functioning: What works and why?. AFRC Briefing No. 7, 2007
- Resources: Indigenous families
- Bibliographies: Indigenous families
- Culturally And Linguistically Diverse (CALD) families
- Culturally responsive family dispute resolution in family relationship centres AFRC Newsletter No. 13, 2009
- Cultural Liaison Workers: Learnings from the Mensline Australia Cultural X Change Project AFRC Newsletter No. 12, 2009
- Enhancing family and relationship service accessibility and delivery to culturally and linguistically diverse families in Australia. AFRC Issues No. 3, 2008
- Enhancing family and relationship service accessibility and delivery to culturally and linguistically diverse families in Australia. AFRC Resource Sheet No. 3, 2008
- Resources: Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) families
- Bibliographies: Cultural issues
- Rural and remote families
- Sole parent families
- Sole parents: Changes and challenges. AFRC Newsletter No. 10, 2008
- Resources: Parenting
- Bibliographies: Sole parenting
- Family relationship trends and statistics
- Family statistics and trends. The sources of time pressure: Work, family and more AFRC Newsletter No. 13, 2009
- Family statistics and trends: Opinions of parents on the acquisition of parenting and relationship skills. AFRC Newsletter No. 10, 2008
- Family statistics and trends: Attitudes towards marriage and cohabitation. AFRC Newsletter No. 8, 2008
- An update on partnership formation trends: What does the 2006 Census suggest?. AFRC Newsletter No. 6, 2007
- Family statistics and trends: A snapshot of how Australian families spend their time. AFRC Newsletter No. 5, 2007
- Family statistics and trends: Relationships Indicators Survey 2006. AFRC Newsletter No. 4, 2007
- Family statistics and trends: Trends in choice of celebrant. AFRC Newsletter No. 3, 2007
- Family statistics and trends: Trends in couple dissolution. AFRC Newsletter No. 2, 2006
- Family statistics and trends. AFRC Newsletter No. 1, 2006
- Resources: Trends and Statistics
- Relationship formation
- Family members
- Infants and children
- Lawyers and family dispute resolution practitioners: Achieving the child-focused ideal in practice AFRC Newsletter No. 12, 2009
- Sole parents: Changes and challenges. AFRC Newsletter No. 10, 2008
- Cautionary notes on the shared care of children in conflicted parental separations. AFRC Newsletter No. 8, 2008
- Action research project at Hobart Family Relationship Centre. AFRC Newsletter No. 7, 2008
- Child inclusion as a principle and as evidence-based practice: Applications to family law services and related sectors. AFRC Issues No. 1, 2007
- Child inclusion as a principle and as evidence-based practice: Applications to family law services and related sectors. AFRC Resource Sheet No. 1, 2007
- Building relationships between parents and carers in early childhood. AFRC Briefing No. 5, 2007
- Tailoring parenting to fit the child. AFRC Briefing No. 4, 2007
- Is Sure Start an effective preventive intervention?. AFRC Newsletter No. 3, 2007
- Children beyond dispute. AFRC Newsletter No. 3, 2007
- New Approach to Child Dispute Services in the Family Court of Australia. AFRC Newsletter No. 1, 2006
- Our Children Come First: The heart and soul of the new family law system. AFRC Newsletter No. 1, 2006
- Resources: Parenting
- Adolescents
- Program spotlight: Getting Tough or Getting Together AFRC Newsletter No. 13, 2009
- Working with families concerned with school-based bullying. AFRC Briefing No. 11, 2008
- Child inclusion as a principle and as evidence-based practice: Applications to family law services and related sectors. AFRC Issues No. 1, 2007
- Child inclusion as a principle and as evidence-based practice: Applications to family law services and related sectors. AFRC Resource Sheet No. 1, 2007
- Article review: The decline in Australian young male suicide. AFRC Newsletter No. 5, 2007
- Competition and comparison in the relationships of adolescent siblings and twins. AFRC Newsletter No. 5, 2007
- The resilience doughnut. AFRC Newsletter No. 4, 2007
- Young people and their parents: Supporting families through changes that occur in adolescence. AFRC Briefing No. 1, 2006
- Resources: Young people
- Bibliographies: Adolescents and family relationships
- Siblings
- Mothers/women
- Family statistics and trends: Attitudes towards divorce AFRC Newsletter No. 11, 2009
- Family statistics and trends: Opinions of parents on the acquisition of parenting and relationship skills. AFRC Newsletter No. 10, 2008
- Mothers and fathers accessing Family Relationship Centres. AFRC Newsletter No. 10, 2008
- Prevention and early intervention in strengthening families and relationships: Challenges and implications. AFRC Issues No. 2, 2008
- Prevention and early intervention in strengthening families and relationships: Challenges and implications. AFRC Resource Sheet No. 2, 2008
- Family statistics and trends: A snapshot of how Australian families spend their time. AFRC Newsletter No. 5, 2007
- Article review: Gender and marital satisfaction early in marriage. AFRC Newsletter No. 4, 2007
- Building relationships between parents and carers in early childhood. AFRC Briefing No. 5, 2007
- Article review: Life course social roles and women’s health in mid-life: causation or selection?. AFRC Newsletter No. 1, 2006
- Children beyond dispute. AFRC Newsletter No. 3, 2007
- Tailoring parenting to fit the child. AFRC Briefing No. 4, 2007
- Bibliographies: Mothers
- Fathers/men
- Cultural Liaison Workers: Learnings from the Mensline Australia Cultural X Change Project AFRC Newsletter No. 12, 2009
- Program spotlight. Hey Dad! For Indigenous Dads, Uncles and Pops AFRC Newsletter No. 12, 2009
- Issues and concerns for men contacting Mensline Australia AFRC Newsletter No. 11, 2009
- Family statistics and trends: Attitudes towards divorce AFRC Newsletter No. 11, 2009
- Family statistics and trends: Opinions of parents on the acquisition of parenting and relationship skills. AFRC Newsletter No. 10, 2008
- Mothers and fathers accessing Family Relationship Centres. AFRC Newsletter No. 10, 2008
- Father-inclusive practice and associated professional competencies. AFRC Briefing No. 9, 2008
- Family statistics and trends: A snapshot of how Australian families spend their time. AFRC Newsletter No. 5, 2007
- Article review: Gender and marital satisfaction early in marriage. AFRC Newsletter No. 4, 2007
- Tailoring parenting to fit the child. AFRC Briefing No. 4, 2007
- Children beyond dispute. AFRC Newsletter No. 3, 2007
- Resources: Men and Fathers
- Bibliographies: Fathers
- Grandparents
- The changing role of grandparents. AFRC Briefing No. 2, 2006
- Resources: Grandparents
- Bibliographies: Grandparents
- Infants and children
- Having children and parenting
- Adoption
- Behaviour problems
- Community influences
- Costs of children
- Bibliographies: Costs of children
- Foster care, kinship care
- Bibliographies: Kinship care
- New parents
- Bibliographies: New Parents
- Parenting styles and strategies
- Program spotlight: Tuning in to Kids: Emotionally intelligent parentings AFRC Newsletter No. 12, 2009
- Program spotlight: P5 (A Participatory Program Promoting Pleasurable Parenting) AFRC Newsletter No. 11, 2009
- Family statistics and trends: Opinions of parents on the acquisition of parenting and relationship skills. AFRC Newsletter No. 10, 2008
- Sole parents: Changes and challenges. AFRC Newsletter No. 10, 2008
- Working with families concerned with school-based bullying. AFRC Briefing No. 11, 2008
- Building relationships between parents and carers in early childhood. AFRC Briefing No. 5, 2007
- Tailoring parenting to fit the child. AFRC Briefing No. 4, 2007
- Young people and their parents: Supporting families through changes that occur in adolescence. AFRC Briefing No. 1, 2006
- Bibliographies: Parenting styles/strategies
- Same-sex parents
- Time use studies
- Bibliographies: Time use studies
- Bibliographies: Having children, Resources for parents
- Family breakdown and post-separation
- Separation/divorce
- Caring for families caring for a person with a disability AFRC Newsletter No. 11, 2009
- Issues and concerns for men contacting Mensline Australia AFRC Newsletter No. 11, 2009
- Family statistics and trends: Attitudes towards divorce AFRC Newsletter No. 11, 2009
- Article review: Marital disaffection – pathways to relationship dissolution. AFRC Newsletter No. 6, 2007
- Family statistics and trends: Trends in couple dissolution. AFRC Newsletter No. 2, 2006
- Resources: Trends and statistics
- Bibliographies: Separation/divorce
- Childrens living arrangements and contact with parents
- "and there's no real way that you could ... make it totally fair": Children's understandings of post-separation decision-making about them AFRC Newsletter No. 13, 2009
- Lawyers and family dispute resolution practitioners: Achieving the child-focused ideal in practice AFRC Newsletter No. 12, 2009
- Issues and concerns for men contacting Mensline Australia AFRC Newsletter No. 11, 2009
- Cautionary notes on the shared care of children in conflicted parental separations. AFRC Newsletter No. 8, 2008
- Children beyond dispute. AFRC Newsletter No. 3, 2007
- Bibliographies: Children's contact services, Children's living arrangements and contact with parents, Conflict resolution and mediation, Shared care
- Resources: Parenting plans
- See also: Child-inclusive practice, Violence and abuse
- Relocation
- Bibliographies: Relocation
- Conflict - effects on children
- Testing the metal: Is silence really golden? AFRC Newsletter No. 12, 2009
- Cautionary notes on the shared care of children in conflicted parental separations. AFRC Newsletter No. 8, 2008
- Building relationships between parents and carers in early childhood. AFRC Briefing No. 5, 2007
- Program Spotlight. Break through: Remedies for rocky relationships, Centacare Melbourne. AFRC Newsletter No. 6, 2007
- Child inclusion as a principle and as evidence-based practice: Applications to family law services and related sectors. AFRC Issues No. 1, 2007
- Child inclusion as a principle and as evidence-based practice: Applications to family law services and related sectors. AFRC Resource Sheet No. 1, 2007
- Children beyond dispute. AFRC Newsletter No. 3, 2007
- Our children come first: The heart and soul of the new family law system. AFRC Newsletter No. 1, 2006
- Bibliographies: Conflict/abuse issues, Parental alienation, Parental conflict - effects on children
- Stepfamilies/blended families
- Stepfamilies: Understanding and responding effectively. AFRC Briefing No. 6, 2007
- Bibliographies: Stepfamilies
- Resources: Separation/Repartnering
- Resources: Family and Relationship Services
- See also: Child-inclusive practice, Family Relationship Centres, Family dispute resolution, Violence and abuse
- Separation/divorce
- Professional issues and service delivery
- Early intervention and prevention
- Program spotlight: Positive Parenting Telephone Service AFRC Newsletter No. 13, 2009
- Cultural Liaison Workers: Learnings from the Mensline Australia Cultural X Change Project AFRC Newsletter No. 12, 2009
- Strengthening and repairing relationships: Addressing forgiveness and sacrifice in couples education and counselling. AFRC Briefing No. 13, 2009
- Prevention and early intervention in strengthening families and relationships: Challenges and implications. AFRC Issues No. 2, 2008
- Prevention and early intervention in strengthening families and relationships: Challenges and implications. AFRC Resource Sheet No. 2, 2008
- Building relationships between parents and carers in early childhood. AFRC Briefing No. 5, 2007
- Is Sure Start an effective preventive intervention?. AFRC Newsletter No. 3, 2007
- Family relationship education and skills training
- Strengthening and repairing relationships: Addressing forgiveness and sacrifice in couples education and counselling. AFRC Briefing No. 13, 2009
- Capacity challenges for service delivery of marriage and relationship education. AFRC Newsletter No. 9, 2008
- The Partnership program. AFRC Newsletter No. 8, 2008
- Prevention and early intervention in strengthening families and relationships: Challenges and implications. AFRC Issues No. 2, 2008
- Prevention and early intervention in strengthening families and relationships: Challenges and implications. AFRC Resource Sheet No. 2, 2008
- Program Spotlight. Break through: Remedies for rocky relationships, Centacare Melbourne. AFRC Newsletter No. 6, 2007
- Researcher-practitioner collaboration in action. AFRC Newsletter No. 4, 2007
- Recent progress in marriage and relationship education in Australia. AFRC Briefing No. 3, 2007
- Marriage and relationship education
- Family counselling and therapy
- Family Law
- Cautionary notes on the shared care of children in conflicted parental separations. AFRC Newsletter No. 8, 2008
- Family Law Forum: Family dispute resolution and family violence. AFRC Newsletter No. 6, 2007
- Child inclusion as a principle and as evidence-based practice: Applications to family law services and related sectors. AFRC Issues No. 1, 2007
- Child inclusion as a principle and as evidence-based practice: Applications to family law services and related sectors. AFRC Resource Sheet No. 1, 2007
- Our Children Come First: The heart and soul of the new family law system. AFRC Newsletter No. 1, 2006
- New approach to child dispute services in the Family Court of Australia. AFRC Newsletter No. 1, 2006
- Bibliographies: Child support, Grandparents' contact with grandchildren after divorce, The new family law system,Child sexual abuse (on the National Child Protection Clearinghouse), Child abuse and the law (on the National Child Protection Clearinghouse)
- See also: Family dispute resolution, Family Relationship Centres, Child maltreatment and family law (on the National Child Protection Clearinghouse)
- Family Relationship Centres
- Online counselling, therapy and dispute resolution: A review of research and its application to family relationship services. AFRC Briefing No. 15, 2009
- Embedding research in practice: Research within Family Relationship Centres in Australia. AFRC Briefing No. 14, 2009
- Cultural Liaison Workers: Learnings from the Mensline Australia Cultural X Change Project AFRC Newsletter No. 12, 2009
- Mothers and fathers accessing Family Relationship Centres. AFRC Newsletter No. 10, 2008
- Action research project at Hobart Family Relationship Centre. AFRC Newsletter No. 7, 2008
- Prevention and early intervention in strengthening families and relationships: Challenges and implications. AFRC Issues No. 2, 2008
- Prevention and early intervention in strengthening families and relationships: Challenges and implications. AFRC Resource Sheet No. 2, 2008
- Family Law Forum: Family dispute resolution and family violence. AFRC Newsletter No. 6, 2007
- Bibliographies: Family Relationship Centres
- Family dispute resolution
- Online counselling, therapy and dispute resolution: A review of research and its application to family relationship services. AFRC Briefing No. 15, 2009
- Culturally responsive family dispute resolution in family relationship centres AFRC Newsletter No. 13, 2009
- Lawyers and family dispute resolution practitioners: Achieving the child-focused ideal in practice AFRC Newsletter No. 12, 2009
- Prevention and early intervention in strengthening families and relationships: Challenges and implications. AFRC Issues No. 2, 2008
- Prevention and early intervention in strengthening families and relationships: Challenges and implications. AFRC Resource Sheet No. 2, 2008
- Advent of compulsory family dispute resolution: Implications for practitioners. AFRC Newsletter No. 6, 2007
- At the coalface: The impact of changes to FDR for service providers. AFRC Newsletter No. 6, 2007
- Family Law Forum: Family dispute resolution and family violence. AFRC Newsletter No. 6, 2007
- Child inclusion as a principle and as evidence-based practice: Applications to family law services and related sectors. AFRC Issues No. 1, 2007
- Child inclusion as a principle and as evidence-based practice: Applications to family law services and related sectors. AFRC Resource Sheet No. 1, 2007
- New approach to child dispute services in the Family Court of Australia. AFRC Newsletter No. 1, 2006
- Bibliographies: Conflict resolution and mediation
- Resources: Family dispute resolution
- Father-inclusive practice
- Child-inclusive practice
- Child inclusion as a principle and as evidence-based practice: Applications to family law services and related sectors. AFRC Issues No. 1, 2007
- Child inclusion as a principle and as evidence-based practice: Applications to family law services and related sectors. AFRC Resource Sheet No. 1, 2007
- Children beyond dispute. AFRC Newsletter No. 3, 2007
- New approach to child dispute services in the Family Court of Australia. AFRC Newsletter No. 1, 2006
- Engaging hard-to-reach groups
- Online counselling, therapy and dispute resolution: A review of research and its application to family relationship services. AFRC Briefing No. 15, 2009
- Family relationships and mental illness: Impacts and service responses. AFRC Issues No. 4, 2008
- Family relationships and mental illness: Impacts and service responses. AFRC Resource Sheet No. 4, 2008
- Improving service provision through agency-based research: Addressing client dropout. AFRC Newsletter No. 9, 2008
- Enhancing family and relationship service accessibility and delivery to culturally and linguistically diverse families in Australia. AFRC Issues No. 3, 2008
- Enhancing family and relationship service accessibility and delivery to culturally and linguistically diverse families in Australia. AFRC Resource Sheet No. 3, 2008
- Effective regional, rural and remote family and relationships service delivery. AFRC Briefing No. 10, 2008
- Father-inclusive practice and associated professional competencies. AFRC Briefing No. 9, 2008
- Strengthening Aboriginal family functioning: What works and why?AFRC Briefing No. 7, 2008
- Prevention and early intervention in strengthening families and relationships: Challenges and implications. AFRC Issues No. 2, 2008
- Prevention and early intervention in strengthening families and relationships: Challenges and implications. AFRC Resource Sheet No. 2, 2008
- Program spotlight: Family life. AFRC Newsletter No. 4, 2007
- Young people and their parents: Supporting families through changes that occur in adolescence. AFRC Briefing No. 1, 2006
- Research and evaluation
- Resources: Family and relationship services, Management and service provision
- Early intervention and prevention
- Issues that impact on relationships and families
- Alcohol and drug use
- Seminar report: Supporting families where there are dual diagnosis issues. AFRC Newsletter No. 9, 2008
- Identifying parental substance use and misuse in clinical practice. AFRC Newsletter No. 7, 2008
- Bibliographies: Dual Diagnosis (substance/alcohol abuse and mental illness), Substance abuse
- Resources: Alcohol and other drugs
- Attachment
- Caring
- Conflict
- Testing the metal: Is silence really golden? AFRC Newsletter No. 12, 2009
- Working with families concerned with school-based bullying. AFRC Briefing No. 11, 2008
- Children beyond dispute. AFRC Newsletter No. 3, 2007
- Internet affairs: Guidelines for practitioners. AFRC Newsletter No. 2, 2006
- Young people and their parents: Supporting families through changes that occur in adolescence. AFRC Briefing No. 1, 2006
- Disability
- Caring for families caring for a person with a disability AFRC Newsletter No. 11, 2009
- Bibliographies: Disability
- Resources: Disability
- Financial issues, including poverty
- Gambling
- Resources: Gambling
- Grief, loss and bereavement
- Housing
- Mental health
- Caring for families caring for a person with a disability AFRC Newsletter No. 11, 2009
- Issues and concerns for men contacting Mensline Australia AFRC Newsletter No. 11, 2009
- Family relationships and mental illness: Impacts and service responses. AFRC Issues No. 4, 2008
- Family relationships and mental illness: Impacts and service responses. AFRC Resource Sheet No. 4, 2008
- Program spotlight: Well Ways and Well Ways Duo. AFRC Newsletter No. 10, 2008
- Seminar report: Supporting families where there are dual diagnosis issues. AFRC Newsletter No. 9, 2008
- Housing stress and the mental health and wellbeing of families. AFRC Briefing No. 12, 2008
- Resources: Mental Health
- Migration
- Enhancing family and relationship service accessibility and delivery to culturally and linguistically diverse families in Australia. AFRC Issues No. 3, 2008
- Enhancing family and relationship service accessibility and delivery to culturally and linguistically diverse families in Australia. AFRC Resource Sheet No. 3, 2008
- Retirement
- Suicide prevention/postvention
- Violence and abuse
- Advent of compulsory family dispute resolution: Implications for practitioners. AFRC Newsletter No. 6, 2007
- At the coalface: The impact of changes to FDR for service providers. AFRC Newsletter No. 6, 2007
- Family Law Forum: Family dispute resolution and family violence. AFRC Newsletter No. 6, 2007
- Treatment of young men who sexually abuse: The involvement of family. AFRC Newsletter No. 2, 2006
- Resources: Family violence
- Work/families
- Resources: Others
- Alcohol and drug use