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MARAM Risk Factors

FVSV, MARAM
2025

Outlining risk factors for adult and child victims stemming from perpetrator behaviours, emphasising serious threats like controlling behaviours, weapon access, threats, violence, and isolation, while highlighting risks unique to adult victims and children. Certain factors indicate heightened danger of fatal outcomes.

Young men’s media landscaping report

adolescent violence
2025

This research from Movember Institute maps young men’s digital ecosystems: what they do online, the content that engages them, and emerging trends shaping their health, wellbeing, and relationships. The findings offer practical insights for supporting young men online and offline.

Understanding the Mediating Effect of Child Abuse and Poor Mental Health on the Use of Adolescent Family Violence: Findings From an Australian Study

adolescent violence, CEDV, child maltreatment, FVSV
2025

This article presents findings from a secondary analysis of data from the Adolescent Family Violence in Australia (AFVA) study—the first national study of the nature, prevalence and impacts of AFV in Australia. The AFVA study involved an online survey of 5021 young people aged 16–20.

Interventions to improve parental mental health and psychological well-being in parents of adolescents with a diagnosis of ASD and/or ADHD

adolescent violence, Neurodivergence
2025

This systematic review examines the effectiveness of interventions focused on improving the mental health of parents of adolescents with neurodevelopmental conditions and synthesises details about the intervention characteristics.

“Your culture is in you”: Cultural identity and connection for children from culturally diverse backgrounds in care: A scoping review of child perspectives

culturally responsive practice, multicultural, out-of-home care (OOHC)
2025

This scoping review examines how children from culturally diverse backgrounds in out-of-home care experience cultural identity and connection.

Trauma-informed practice in family mental health support services

CEDV, FVSV, trauma-informed practice
2025

Overview of principles of trauma-informed practice, including organisational and practitioner level information. Includes comprehensive list of resources on various aspects of trauma-informed care.

Electronic Screen Use and Children’s Socioemotional Problems: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Longitudinal Studies

adolescent violence
2025

Instead of merely emphasizing the reduction of screen time, guidelines should prioritize improving the quality of screen content and enhancing social interactions during screen use. Additionally, screen time guidelines should discourage high levels of the most high-risk behaviors like gaming.

Knowing That Support is Available at Every Stage of the Journey: Tailoring Youth Homelessness Responses to Domestic, Family, and Sexual Violence

domestic and family violence, housing and homelessness
2025

The intersection between young people’s experiences of homelessness and domestic, family, and sexual violence (DFSV) remains underdiscussed in policy and research. Critically absent from this discussion is young people’s input into how they would like to receive support. To address this lack of youth voice, this briefing paper platforms young people’s input into the development of a youth-focused DFSV practice framework. It highlights the important role of youth-led, trauma-informed approaches to care which model authentic relationships between young people and practitioners.

Enhancing and Practicing Executive Function Skills

Neurodivergence

Developed by 'the Center on the Developing Child' (Harvard University), this guide provides an overview of strategies that can support executive functioning in children and adolescents.

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