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
Policy and practice paper Sep 2003
Explores the ease with which families can access child abuse and neglect prevention programs.
Practice guide Feb 2014
Paper aims to provide an overview of complex trauma as a concept for classifying a varying range of symptomatology.
Research report Oct 2012
This report presents information on parents who care for people with a disability in Victoria, focusing on the issue of ageing.
Short article Apr 2017
Recent research highlights the importance of formal support services and informal social supports for refugee families resettling in Australia.
Family Matters article Oct 2014
This article introduces 'Building a New Life in Australia', a new longitudinal study that will investigate the settlement pathways and outcomes of newly arrived humanitarian migrants, and explains its conceptualisation and development, design, topics covered, recruitment, and the survey methodology for Wave 1 data collection.
Webinar Feb 2019
This webinar discussed an approach to building coping strategies for parents and young children, with a focus on families from CALD backgrounds.
Research report Dec 2000
Describes a new study that aims to fill gaps in the research literature concerning the influence of home-child care discontinuities on children.
Policy and practice paper Dec 1996
Examines the relationship between children with disabilities and parents with disabilities, and the potential for child maltreatment.
Short article Oct 2017
This article examines the role of homelessness in the link between child maltreatment and youth offending.