Short article Jul 2016
Emotional abuse of children is a growing problem in Australia
How many children are in the child protection system? How can we improve the system's response to these children and their families?
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Short article Jul 2016
How many children are in the child protection system? How can we improve the system's response to these children and their families?
Profile Jan 2021
Emily Stevens is a Senior Research Officer within the Family Law, Family Violence and Elder Abuse Research Team.
Research programs
The National Workforce Centre for Child Mental Health aims to build workforce capacity to better support children at risk of mental health conditions.
Profile May 2022
Elissa joins AIFS as Project Manager of Growing Up in Australia: the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC).
Research report Feb 2016
This report provides a broad analysis of the issues raised by elder abuse in the Australian context.
Research programs
Examining the nature of elder abuse and its prevalence in the Australian population
Journal article Oct 2023
This article explores findings from the was the National Elder Abuse Prevalence Study, the first major national study to gauge the prevalence and nature of elder abuse in Australia.
Research report Oct 2019
This paper discusses the development of a working definition of abuse of older people to be applied in the Elder Abuse National Research Program.
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.
Research snapshot Aug 2022
This snapshot provides key findings from the Survey of Older People (2020), a nationally representative survey of 7,000 people aged 65 and over living in the community (i.e. they did not live in residential aged care settings).