Policy and practice paper May 2012
Parental involvement in preventing and responding to cyberbullying
Outlines definitions of cyberbullying, differences between cyberbullying and offline bullying, and parents' roles in dealing with cyberbullying.
Policy and practice paper May 2012
Outlines definitions of cyberbullying, differences between cyberbullying and offline bullying, and parents' roles in dealing with cyberbullying.
Policy and practice paper May 2012
An exploration of the concept of community resilience and frameworks and tools developed to understand and measure it.
Policy and practice paper Apr 2012
A review of research on resilience, and how resilience is defined, measured and used in practice.
Policy and practice paper Mar 2012
A review of research on building safe and supportive families and communities for children in Australia.
Commissioned report Mar 2012
An overview of the research evidence on why Indigenous Australians have much lower employment rates than non-Indigenous Australians.
Family Matters article Dec 2011
This paper looks at who is likely to benefit most from the introduction of Paid Parental Leave (PPL).
Family Matters article Dec 2011
Family Matters article on childhood trauma and directions for clinical interventions
Family Matters article Dec 2011
This paper reviews some of the recent research that has analysed the outcomes of child maltreatment as seen through the lens of the disciplines of neuroscience, psychopathology, traumatology and related fields.
Research report Sep 2011
This report examines whether drought affected areas have higher rates of residential mobility out of these areas
Family Matters article Aug 2011
There has been growing recognition of the importance of fathers to families in recent years. Societal trends, such as rising levels of employment among mothers of young children and recognition of the importance of the father-child relationship, have given more prominence to the contribution that fathers make to family life.