Short article Jun 2023
Peer support for parents of children with complex needs
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This article summarises the evidence on peer support for parents of children with complex needs and considers the implications for practitioners.
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Short article Jun 2023
This article summarises the evidence on peer support for parents of children with complex needs and considers the implications for practitioners.
Practice guide Jun 2023
This practice guide describes technology-facilitated coercive control and synthesises the evidence on how to support clients experiencing it.
Media release Jun 2023
A new practice guide released by the Australian Institute of Family Studies (AIFS) aims to shine a light on technology-facilitated coercive control – and dispel the myth that victims withdrawing from technology lessens the impact.
Webinar Jul 2023
Journal article Jan 2023
The study provides robust longitudinal evidence supporting the notion that social support and depression are both a cause and consequence of the other. However, the long-term effects of depression reducing social support were longer lasting than the effects of social support reducing depression.
Journal article Sep 2022
Findings from this study demonstrate the importance of emotional/instrumental support and informational support for the medium and long-term mental health of humanitarian migrants.
Journal article Nov 2022
This study describes families' experiences of supporting veterans and emergency service first responders (ESFRs) to seek help for a mental health problem.
Journal article Feb 2022
This study was amongst the first to explore professional help-seeking for mental health problems five years post-settlement amongst Afghan and Iraqi refugees in Australia.
Journal article Mar 2023
This study used Australian national survey linked-data (n = 1217) from families (Family Wellbeing Study-FWS) and veterans (Mental Health Wellbeing Transition Study-MHWTS) to understand veteran-family help-seeking relationships.
Journal article Apr 2021
Findings from this study suggest that gambling problems in adulthood may be related to the earlier development of other addictive behaviours, and that interventions targeting substance use from adolescence to young adulthood may confer additional gains in preventing later gambling behaviours.