Director’s Notes

Working with families with complex needs is challenging and practitioners are increasingly confronted with clients who meet this criteria. This…

A key underlying principle of practice at Bower Place is that inequality is the primary constraint to effective clinical practice….

Carl Whitaker and Virginia Satir, influential figures in early family therapy, would never have described themselves as ‘hard scientists. Whitaker…

In recent years family therapists have become increasingly knowledgeable about many aspects of relationships. Among others, papers have been published…

It is generally accepted that conflict between parents, or interparental conflict (IPC) ranging from minor disagreements to physical violence, is…

Working in the field of helping and social assistance every day, we see those whose lives are sad and difficult….

Before the pandemic, parents were becoming increasingly anxious about the stranger that had seduced their children, but lockdown both firmly…

Every year the Child Development Council of South Australia provides an annual report to parliament detailing achievements and focus during…

While 72% of Australians live in major cities, 8.0% are in outer regional areas and 1.9% in remote or very…

14 February, Valentine’s Day, and we are surrounded by images of young, beautiful, predominantly white people looking lovingly into each…

Secret, seductive and insidious, our boys are listening to people we would never invite home. Where once we knew when…

January 26th has passed and with it the debate about its name and significance. Is it Invasion Day, a day…