Articles include shariah law and marriage in Australia, working with families after traumatic events, a whole-of-agency public health approach

A brief overview of mental health problems and causes, and the impact of mental health problems on family relationships and dynamics.

Identifying and using the issues and concerns of CALD families and service providers to make practice, procedure and policy recommendations.

Reporting on factors that may influence fathers' involvement with services and the competence of practitioners to engage with fathers.

Insights into the protective effects and risks that influence forms of functioning among Aboriginal families.

Challenges and strategies for encouraging individuals to engage in prevention and early-intervention activities focusing on healthy relationships.

Advent of compulsory family dispute resolution, implications for practitioners; Marital disaffection; the Break Through program for help

Provides evidence of the potential benefits of the child-inclusion model in dispute resolution with two successful applications.

Secrecy in adoptive families; competition and comparison in adolescent siblings; rural health conference report; outcomes-based approaches in programs

An outline of strategies that professionals may employ to support and strengthen parent/carer partnerships.