Director’s Notes

In 2020, in Australia, 99 deaths by suicide were recorded in children and adolescents (aged 5–17 years) with 74% in those…

It has long been understood that adverse childhood experiences, an umbrella term for ‘severe negative environmental events that require significant…

  The understanding that trauma in parents can result in behavioural and emotional problems in children is well accepted but…

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…