Director’s Notes

We had been on the road for a week. Others had done it in four days but that was only…

Holidays, birthdays, and anniversaries are times where the absence of a child is powerfully experienced, and opportunities lost cannot be…

People may imagine that, compared to others who work with people in our community, a mental health practitioner’s life is…

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…