Director’s Notes

In 1965 a paper entitled ‘The Battered-Child’ Syndrome in South Australia’ was published by Lois Wurfel and George M. Maxwell…

Working with families draws attention to relationships between adults across generations, and with children. However, the sibling relationship, often the…

Making mistakes is inevitable. It is how we learn by introducing new information into our system. ‘I’ll never do that…

Separation and divorce entail the dissolution of a primary attachment bond of adulthood and often represents a life transition neither…

Children are among the most powerless in our society and a child suffering emotional distress relies on adults to notice…

Couples who attend therapy have often explored their own solutions through accessible and popular books which promote singular ideas about…

Learning to ask an elegant difference question which effectively explores the practitioner’s best hunch about the presenting difficulties is no…

Three years ago, few of us had heard of AI but with the public release of free ChatGPT from OpenAI…

The 1978 publication Paradox and Counterparadox by the Milan group was immediately recognised as a fundamental shift in family therapy…

Early childhood maltreatment, abuse and neglect suffered by individuals aged 3-5 years old within relationships of responsibility, trust, or authority,…

On the 10th of June 2025 key changes came into effect to the Family Law Act 1975 which address the…

Family interventions for psychosis are now well established with the US Department of Veterans Affairs and Department of Defence recommendations…