CFCA produces a range of publications. These include CFCA Papers, which offer an objective exploration of how research applies to policy and practice, and are written by or in collaboration with expert researchers and service providers. CFCA Resource Sheets and Practitioner Resources are shorter papers that focus on a specific issue in depth.
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Outlines ways in which practitioners can support healing and recovery in families affected by parental mental illness
A broad overview of some of the key issues identified in the growing literature on paternal mental illness
This paper reviews the research and current policy surrounding prenatal alcohol exposure and fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD)
An overview of the consequences of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders and some principles for supporting children and families affected
Australian research into FIFO work practices suggests this lifestyle has a range of effects on children and on family relationships.
This paper uses existing literature to describe Australia's family leave policy history leading up to the government-funded Dad and Partner Pay
The co-occurrence of domestic violence, parental substance misuse, and mental health problems
Articles include culturally responsive family dispute resolution, children's understandings of post-separation decision making about them
Looking at "postvention"for families - activities that can assist those bereaved by suicide to cope with what has occurred.
Identifying parental substance use and misuse in clinical practice; action research at the Hobart Family Relationships Centre; the late discovery
The Australian Institute of Family Studies acknowledges the traditional country throughout Australia on which we gather, live, work and stand.
We acknowledge all traditional custodians, their Elders past, present and emerging, and we pay our respects to their continuing connection to their culture, community, land, sea and rivers.
