Practice guide Sep 2007
"Feeling heavy"
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 Mar 2009
This article suggests it is vital to tap potential of the powerful evidence that now exists on the serious immediate and long-term risks posed to children from parental substance dependence, mental health problems and domestic violence, and the high prevalence of such problems among families involved with statutory child protection systems.
Family Matters article Jun 2001
Continuing previous research (1999) at the Australian Institute of Family Studies on the outcomes of the UK 'Looking After Children' approach in out of home care in Victoria, the author discusses the value of the UK Children in Need assessment framework for Victorian Family Services.
Family Matters article Sep 2001
This article gives an overview of the development of child protection and efforts to prevent child abuse and neglect, highlighting the cyclical nature of the evolution of child protection services and noting that many of the current approaches have been tried a number of times over the last 150 years and look likely to be re-applied in the next few decades.
Policy and practice paper Dec 2008
Discusses the child protection system in Australia, legislation and policy frameworks, child welfare ideology, and key challenges and possible future
Family Matters article Sep 1998
In this article it is the author's thesis that we are at one of those rare moments in history when a conjunction of influences and events provides nations such as Australia with the need and the opportunity to address a range of issues of fundamental importance to their citizens.
Family Matters article Feb 2005
In this article the author summarises the new measures of the 2004 federal budget, described as a families budget, and the media commentary evoked, and asks what these measures might mean in the context of the Government's fourth term agenda.
Policy and practice paper Sep 2009
Explores the issues involved in applying a public health approach together with a human rights perspective to healing and protecting infants.
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.