Director’s Notes

Practitioners who work with children and their families are familiar with circumstances where a young person who is labelled as…

With an increasing number of children presenting for therapy with a diagnosis of autism accompanied by funding from NDIS, it…

Thirty years ago, John Dunbar, Professor of Evolutionary Psychology, proposed the social brain hypothesis which posited a relationship between brain…

With the Olympic Games and coronavirus numbers escalating Japan has been in our attention. A lesser-known Japanese phenomenon is that…

It was with relief that those of us who had been locked down in Adelaide returned to some form of…

Standing outside the local coffee shop at the prescribed 1.5meters apart, the man next to me engaged in conversation with…

One of the features of a successful system, be it an individual, family, organization or society is its capacity to…

When you matter to someone, and they matter to you there is a mutual influence such that each person’s actions…

If a parent were to tell us that they were depriving their child of food as a way of teaching…

Scream and Yell and You’ll Feel Better… or Will You? Catharsis theory, derived from the Greek word katharsis, meaning to…

Four-year-old Tharnicaa, an Australian born child of Tamil Sri Lankan parents, spent her fourth birthday in hospital being treated for…

The psychological literature on the impact of living with domestic violence presents a singular view which asserts that these conditions…