What’s Good; What’s Hard for Children in South Australia
While it is obvious that policy and law makers need regular data about the population to determine funding levels, objectives,…
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Is Discipline the Problem?
Australian classrooms are among the most disorderly in the world. This is a finding from a recent OECD study of…
Read moreFirst Fess Up
A crucial first step in addressing any difficulty is the courage of the person showing a problem or those affected…
Read moreReaping as We Sow
Acknowledging the prevalence and impact of violence in Australian families has been challenging and is usually understood as the violence…
Read moreA Voice for a Different Future
Now is the time to sit, reflect, and grieve a lost opportunity, and to acknowledge the feelings of hurt, distress…
Read moreWhy is it so Hard to Talk?
‘Just don’t think about it,’ ‘Stiff upper lip is best,’ What the mind doesn’t know the heart won’t grieve over’…
Read moreThe Disability Royal Commission – Where to from Here?
The Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability handed down its final report on Thursday 28 September…
Read moreWe Should Research but How?
The early pioneers of family therapy emphasized the importance of research to improve practice and it was under its guise…
Read moreWhose Responsibility is it?
There is no such thing as a human problem, symptom, or dilemma that is not about the politics of inequality…
Read moreGetting a Grip – Parent or Child Centered Emotion Regulation
A key parenting challenge and one often referred to those who work with children is “What do I do when…
Read moreSilenced Voices Fuel Fracture
On 14 October 2023, Australians will vote in a referendum ‘To alter the constitution to recognize the First Peoples of…
Read moreWhat and Where is the ‘Gap’?
Do you know who said this? ’When we believe schools will fix everything, parents abdicate their responsibilities and politicians handball…
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