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Positive and Negative Parenting Practices and Offspring Disruptive Behaviour

adolescent violence
2025

Disruptive behavior disorders (DBDs), which include conduct disorder (CD) and oppositional defiant disorder (ODD), are characterized by symptoms such as physical aggression, lying, stealing, and frequently losing one’s temper.

Understanding and responding to disclosures of child sexual abuse from children and young people

child sexual abuse, FVSV, trauma-informed practice
2025

This three-hour, fee-based course offers an in-depth exploration of how children and young people disclose sexual abuse, the challenges they face, and best practices for responding with compassion and competence.

Track, harass, repeat: Investigating attitudes that normalise tech-based coercive control

coercive control, online safety
2025

The eSafety report finds many young adults, men, and linguistically diverse people normalise tech-based control in relationships, highlighting the need for targeted education on digital privacy and respect.

Child Sexual Abuse Language Guide

lived experience, practice tool, trauma-informed practice
2025

This guide is designed for anyone working in child protection, policy, practice, education, healthcare, research, justice or communications. It provides victim and survivor-informed language and definitions that are respectful, inclusive and trauma-informed. 

Supporting boys and men to disclose child sexual abuse

child sexual abuse, intervention programs, trauma-informed practice
2025

This training addresses barriers boys and men face in disclosing child sexual abuse, including stigma and gender norms. It offers practical tools to create supportive environments for disclosure, featuring interactive learning and a downloadable guide.

My superhero voice: Resources to teach body safety

child sexual abuse, parenting, practice tool
2025

This resource supports safe and age-appropriate conversations with children aged 5–8 about personal safety, trusted adults, and speaking up. It includes a downloadable storybook, a read-along video, and guidance for parents, carers, and educators.

From tokenism to transformation: Lived experience in child and family systems

lived experience
2025

This edition of Children Australia highlights what becomes possible when children and young people’s lived experience is taken seriously – and why the sector must move beyond aspiration towards embedded, everyday participation.

The impact of using an infant and child-led therapeutic approach in providing in situ consultations and transferable learnings to key workers working with families identified as at risk: A retrospective Australian study

child voice, FVSV
2025

This paper reports on a retrospective, qualitative evaluation of an ‘infant and child-led’ therapeutic family practice approach undertaken by an infant-mental-health-trained family therapist working with families deemed to be ‘at risk’.

Strengthening National Evidence-Informed Policymaking Ecosystems

evidence based decision making, evidence informed practice
2025

The project by the European JRC took a broad "ecosystem" approach to addressing the effective uptake of evidence in the policy process, considering both demand- and supply-side perspectives. The project engaged with the seven countries using a common analytical structure, analysing capacity at individual, organisational, interorganisational, and system levels, including shared learning and collaborative dialogues.

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