Commissioned report Mar 2020
Social-emotional wellbeing from childhood to early adolescence
This brief investigates the role of parenting, parents’ mental health and their health behaviours on the social-emotional wellbeing of their children.
Commissioned report Mar 2020
This brief investigates the role of parenting, parents’ mental health and their health behaviours on the social-emotional wellbeing of their children.
Policy and practice paper Jul 2016
Informs on the evidence and use of e-mental health support and treatment options and ways these may be developed in the future.
Journal article Sep 2018
This article analyses the mental health profiles of different groups of offenders from adolescence to early adulthood.
Journal article Jun 2020
This study examines associations between conformity to masculine norms and suicidal ideation in a sample of adolescents.
Commissioned report Nov 2017
This report examines the association between family, neighbourhood and school level disadvantage and children’s cognitive and social outcomes.
Family Matters article Oct 2009
Articles in this issue address the interaction of policies, services and institutions, and the vulnerable with the employment prospects of those in out-of-home care; the economic consequences for single-parent families of the changes to the child support and the Welfare-to-Work reforms; and how the Victorian legal system has responded to family violence.
Family Matters article Apr 2017
This article reviews progress to date and some of the benefits and challenges faced by a panel of experts commissioned by the Australian Government Department of Social Services to help service providers to deliver evidence-based programs and practices in the family support sector.
Family Matters article Apr 2017
This article outlines some issues and common challenges that require careful thought when planning an evaluation of a program targeting Indigenous people.
Family Matters article May 2018
Article about improving the lives of infants, children and families
Webinar Nov 2020
This webinar brought together a panel of social service providers and evaluators to discuss how to build successful evaluation partnerships.