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Childhood potentially traumatic events are prevalent in the Australian general population and associated with serious mental and physical health conditions. These findings have important implications for early detection and intervention, trauma-informed healthcare approaches, and for policy and practice across health, education and social service systems.
Features Tim Moore and Morag McArthur. This study explores children and young people’s views on their role in preventing abuse and maltreatment. It highlights that young people want information, choice, and meaningful participation, rather than tokenistic involvement.
This study analyses child protection case files to distinguish coercive control from situational couple violence and examines how these patterns shape risk, child safety, and intervention outcomes. It demonstrates that misidentifying the violence type can lead to inappropriate responses, including unsafe reunification or misdirected support.
This article outlines the national co-design process used to develop minimum practice standards for responding to child sexual abuse. It describes collaboration across lived experience, government and sector partners, and identifies core components of high-quality, child-safe services.
This review revisits the concept of cumulative harm through recent research, legislative changes, and coronial findings, making the case that cumulative harm remains an under-recognised driver of poor outcomes for children. The article critiques fragmented responses across systems and highlights how children’s experiences of violence, neglect, and instability accumulate over time.
This reflective article draws on learning from survivors of child sexual abuse to examine what a genuine apology, relational repair, and survivor-centered safety look like in practice. It highlights the emotional labour survivors carry and the need for adults and systems to approach harm with humility and accountability.
This article offers an expert by experience perspective on what it is like to be caught between parents during and after family violence. It explores how loyalty conflicts, fear, and pressure shape children’s relationships with adults around them. The piece highlights how systems and services can unintentionally intensify the “tug of war” when they fail to understand children’s relational worlds.
This commentary explores the critical importance of listening to children’s voices within the family law context and proposes a framework for practice designed to enhance children’s participation in decisions that affect their lives.
Studies of program effectiveness consistently report high attrition rates and, importantly, an association between non-completion and recidivism. These findings support the need for more nuanced analyses of program outcomes that capture the non-linear, relational process with which people engage in perpetrator programs, and behavior change more broadly.
