Family Matters article Dec 1993
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Family Matters article Dec 1993
Adolescent cigarette smokers and their families
This article looks at characteristics distinguishing adolescent smokers and non-smokers, based on data for Box Hill and Berwick families derived from the Australian Living Standards Study.
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Family Matters article Aug 1993
Torres Strait Islander family life
This article presents a collection of papers on family life amongst Torres Strait Islanders.
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Family Matters article Aug 1993
The first Australians: Kinship, family and identity
This paper on Aboriginal families and kinship begins by briefly discussing what Aboriginal life was like before 'British invasion' in 1788, then examines current Aboriginal family life and how Aborigines have retained their Aboriginal identity.
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Family Matters article Aug 1993
Aboriginal children: Back to origins
This article begins by looking at landmark events of 1993 for Aboriginal people, including the United Nations International Year of the World's Indigenous People and the tenth anniversary of the establishment of the Melbourne office of the Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care (SNAICC), before turning to the widespread practice which occurred between the 1930s and the 1970s of the wholesale removal of Aboriginal children from their families and their adoption into white families.
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Family Matters article Aug 1993
Claiming our future
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Family Matters article Aug 1993
Aboriginal child welfare
This article outlines some thoughts on the matter of child welfare and indigenous children, taking a brief look at the context of indigenous children's needs in this area at the present time and then going on to propose some solutions in the form of policy frameworks that are suitable for Aboriginal people.
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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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Practice guide May 2008
Working with Indigenous survivors of sexual assault
This Wrap includes the historical and contemporary aspects of sexual assault as they impact on Indigenous people
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Practice guide Sep 2007
"Feeling heavy"
This paper is about vicarious trauma, a normal response to repeated exposure and empathetic engagement with traumatic material