Helping practitioners and service providers to use research and practice evidence to inform decisions about service and program design and delivery is our primary role here at AIFS. For this reason, we thought it would be great to start the year with a replay of ‘Evidence-informed decision making: Using research evidence to inform practice’ This […]
The Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC) is a major study following the development of 10,000 young people and their families. It is conducted in partnership between the Department of Social Services and the Australian Institute of Family Studies. The study began in 2004 with a representative sample of infants (0–1-year-olds) and children (4–5-year-olds) from urban and rural […]
This webinar will explore recent LSAC research that found childhood prosocial behaviours are associated with positive adolescent mental health. This webinar will: Explore the relationship between prosocial behaviours and mental health symptoms Describe how childhood involvement in volunteering can buffer against poor mental health in adolescence Provide guidance for child and family services and practitioners […]
Recent research suggests emotional abuse in childhood is highly prevalent and contributes to a range of physical, social and psychological problems. Despite this, emotional abuse in childhood is poorly understood compared to other forms of child maltreatment, such as physical or sexual abuse, and is often overlooked in practice settings. In partnership with the National […]
The murder of a child’s parent in the context of domestic violence is a traumatic experience that has immediate and long-term effects on a child’s social, emotional and cognitive development. Children and young people may experience ongoing distress, safety concerns and family conflict. Many also face the loss of the perpetrator parent. Although supporting these […]
This webinar will help you: reflect on how supervision can influence child outcomes apply or seek out supervision strategies that promote child-aware approaches consider how to include reflective practice as part of the supervisor-supervisee relationship cultivate supervision practices as a partnership where both parties can learn, reflect and develop. This webinar will be useful to […]
This webinar will explore how practitioners can make children’s wellbeing central to conversations with parents who are navigating separation and/or divorce. This webinar will help you: understand the potential impacts of separation on parents, the parent–child relationship, and children’s mental health and wellbeing consider how you can make children’s wellbeing a central aspect of conversations […]
This webinar will explore how professionals can work alongside parents who have a child with disability who requires support to regulate their emotions or who communicates through behaviour. This webinar will help you: Develop an understanding of how behaviour can be a form of communication for children with disability Explore approaches and supports to help […]