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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"Feeling heavy"
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Webinar Feb 2015
“Flying over the radar”: Changing practice to support children and families where a parent has a mental illness
This webinar described ways to foster systemic change in practice to improve outcomes for families where a parent has a mental illness.
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Policy & practice paper Sep 2005
A new name for Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy: Defining fabricated or induced illness by carers
Describes Fabricated or Induced Illness by Carers (FIIC) and explore some implications for practitioners working to protect children from harm.
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Practice guide Feb 2014
Acknowledging complexity in the impacts of sexual victimisation trauma
Paper aims to provide an overview of complex trauma as a concept for classifying a varying range of symptomatology.
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Webinar Sep 2015
Addressing gambling in Indigenous communities: Embracing community, diversity and wellbeing
This webinar described the effects of gambling in Indigenous communities, and discussed a health promotion framework to inform policy and practice.
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Family Matters article Nov 1990
An ear to listen and a shoulder to cry on
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.
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Family Matters article Sep 2004
At risk but not antisocial
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.
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Policy & practice paper Dec 1996
Child maltreatment and mental disorder
Produced by the former National Child Protection Clearinghouse
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Short article Oct 2017
Child maltreatment, homelessness and youth offending
This article examines the role of homelessness in the link between child maltreatment and youth offending.
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Family Matters article Dec 2011
Childhood trauma and psychosis
Family Matters article on childhood trauma and directions for clinical interventions