Family Matters article Sep 2010
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Practice guide Jul 2014
Positive learning environments for Indigenous children and young people
Reviews the research literature to identify the school-based factors that contribute to an effective learning environment.
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Webinar Aug 2016
Placing family at the centre of mental health recovery
This webinar outlined ways in which practitioners can support healing and recovery in families affected by parental mental illness.
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Family Matters article May 2010
Placed-based approaches to addressing disadvantage
Drawing on two examples, namely the impact of scale and population mobility, this paper argues there is a need to ensure that the approaches used to identify and track changes in areas of concentrated disadvantage are very closely aligned to any potential policy response.
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Family Matters article May 2010
Picking up the pieces
This article is a literature review of research regarding the responses of individuals, families and communities to catastrophic events.
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Research report Nov 2000
Pathways from infancy to adolescence
This publication tells the story of the Australian Temperament Project, a longitudinal study of Australian children born in Victoria 1982-83
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Media release Jun 2016
Parents' risky drinking linked to kids alcohol use
Levels of risky drinking among Australian parents is a strong factor influencing their teenage children to try alcohol, according to a new study by the Australian Institute of Family Studies.
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Family Matters article Jun 2008
Parents' involvement in their children's education
Engaging families in the education of their children is increasingly viewed as important, with research finding that children achieve more when schools and families work together. This paper investigates the relationship between parental involvement and children's learning competence, with an analysis of Wave 2 data from Growing Up in Australia: the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC), for children in Years 1 and 2 at school.
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Media release Sep 2016
Parents primary school choice about more than academic results
Australian parents decide which primary school is best for their child based on convenience and a host of other largely, personal factors that go beyond academic outcomes, according to new research by the Australian Institute of Family Studies.
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Family Matters article Dec 1993
Parenting resources in one and two parent families