Webinar Aug 2020
Words matter: Getting the language of child mental health right
![](themes/custom/aifs/angle-right.svg)
This webinar was the first of a two-part series exploring the importance of language in supporting children’s mental health and wellbeing.
Showing 45 results
Webinar Aug 2020
This webinar was the first of a two-part series exploring the importance of language in supporting children’s mental health and wellbeing.
Webinar Aug 2020
This webinar was the second of a two-part series exploring the importance of language in supporting children’s mental health and wellbeing.
Webinar Feb 2021
This webinar explored how practitioners can support families experiencing the effects of homelessness.
Commissioned report Nov 2018
This chapter describes the past help-seeking behaviours and future help-seeking intentions of adolescents, focusing on who adolescents go to for help.
Short article Jul 2019
This short article discusses how the risk of elder abuse may be heightened in rural and remote communities and proposes some ways to address this.
Short article Apr 2020
We describe powers of attorney arrangements, how these arrangements may protect older people from financial abuse, and acknowledge the risks of abuse.
Short article Aug 2016
E-mental health can provide an appropriate and cost-effective way to increase the number of people accessing help for problem gambling.
Research programs
Examining the nature of elder abuse and its prevalence in the Australian population
Media release Dec 2019
A new national study has found 16 per cent of Australian teenagers aged 16-17 years reported spending money on some form of gambling activity in the previous 12 months, with some gambling illegally because they were underage.
Media release Oct 2020
Young adult men are drinking alcohol at riskier levels than older men, and adolescent males are carrying early drinking habits with them into adulthood, according to research released today by the Australian Institute of Family Studies (AIFS).