Director’s Notes

Humanity and mental health care have not always co-existed with distressing abuse perpetrated against already vulnerable people. These have ranged…

Those who work with children and families recognise the scenario. A separated parent presents with the ‘problem’ that their child…

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

The term ‘single parent’ is often assumed to refer to mother led households yet the number of single fathers is…

Training to be a family therapist can be both exciting and tedious. The thrill is often in clinical practice, observing…

The decision to place an elderly parent into care in the face of their express wish to remain in their…

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…