Practice guide Sep 2007
"Feeling heavy"
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This paper is about vicarious trauma, a normal response to repeated exposure and empathetic engagement with traumatic material
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Practice guide Sep 2007
This paper is about vicarious trauma, a normal response to repeated exposure and empathetic engagement with traumatic material
Family Matters article Aug 1993
The author alerts readers to problems associated with measuring income poverty and argues that definitions used in measuring income amongst white Australians are not always appropriate when measuring income poverty amongst Aborigines.
Policy and practice paper Sep 2003
Explores the ease with which families can access child abuse and neglect prevention programs.
Family Matters article Nov 1990
This article examines how many mothers use child health services in Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth, their ethnic and working background, their views of child health services and a brief history of child health services in Australia.
Family Matters article Sep 2004
This article explores the risk factors associated with adolescent antisocial behaviour, as well as the factors that might promote resilience against this outcome, drawing on data from the Australian Temperament Project.
Family Matters article Oct 2004
This article suggests that more creative ways of understanding the mosaic and diverse nature of contemporary motherhood, such as fiction, memoirs and personal narratives, ought to be considered when researching motherhood and the family.
Research report Dec 1984
This paper gives a brief overview of the changing relationship between school and family in Australia
Policy and practice paper Dec 1996
Examines the relationship between children with disabilities and parents with disabilities, and the potential for child maltreatment.
Policy and practice paper Dec 1996
Produced by the former National Child Protection Clearinghouse
Family Matters article Dec 2011
Family Matters article on childhood trauma and directions for clinical interventions