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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.

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.

QCOSS DFSV Data Insights Network: Measuring impacts and outcomes

data, domestic and family violence, FVSV
2025

This initiative is part of the Data Insights Roadmap, which comprises six streams of work and represents a program of short, medium and longer-term initiatives. Across the six streams, there is a focus on building capacity and capability of the DFSV service sector.

Not All Men are ready for this conversation

FVSV
2025

In this Academy of Imperfection episode, Jess Hill explains to Hugh, Ryan and Josh the unrelenting system of entrapment that many women find themselves in, including a detailed look at the history of coercive control, and the term ‘perspecticide’.

The minimum age of criminal responsibility in Australia

youth justice
2025

This resource sheet provides information on the minimum age of criminal responsibility across Australia’s states and territories and outlines planned changes to the minimum age in different Australian jurisdictions. It also answers some common questions about the minimum age of criminal responsibility, including why it exists, what the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) says about the minimum age of criminal responsibility and how Australia compares to the rest of the world.

Australian Child Maltreatment Study – Factsheets

child maltreatment, FVSV
2025

The Australian Child Maltreatment Study conducts gold standard research with direct policy and practice impact. These factsheets include all knowledge translation products.

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