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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…

“Innocent sleep. Sleep that soothes away all our worries. Sleep that puts each day to rest. Sleep that relieves the…

A gift this ANZAC day was the announcement by the federal government that, after five years of campaigning, the parliament…

Filicide, the murder of a child by their parent is perhaps one of the most distressing events for a community…

It has long been recognised that psychiatric diagnoses are powerfully influenced by social and temporal factors with some favoured in some…

When parents present a child for therapy the implicit and sometimes explicit request is to focus on ‘the person with…

Much has been written over the past year of the detrimental impact on individual, couple and family mental health and…

When the pandemic hit early in 2020 plans initially ground to a halt and it soon became clear to the executive…