A5038006633- Family Dynamics and Relationships
- Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Family Support in Illness
- Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
- Child Abuse and Trauma
- Child Welfare and Adoption
- Family and Disability Support Research
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving
- Reproductive Health and Contraception
- Child Therapy and Development
- Reproductive Health and Technologies
- Intimate Partner and Family Violence
- Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
- Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse
- Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics
- Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare
- Infant Development and Preterm Care
- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Maternal and fetal healthcare
- Child and Adolescent Health
- Multicultural Socio-Legal Studies
- Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
La Trobe University
2009-2025
Deakin University
2015-2024
Health Awareness (United States)
2024
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
2024
Royal Children's Hospital
2016-2023
Murdoch Children's Research Institute
2016-2023
The University of Melbourne
2007-2023
Monash University
2023
The University of Sydney
2020
UNSW Sydney
2020
AbstractThere are established research truths about parental conflict and its impact on children which increasingly respected in practice: divorce does not have to be harmful; is a more potent predictor of child adjustment than divorce; resolution important children's coping with divorce. This synopsis recent moves beyond these truths, review emerging "news" from the literature, focus known impacts entrenched development capacity adjust separation. The findings illustrated by case two...
This study compared outcomes over 1 year for two groups of separated parents, who attended different forms brief therapeutic mediation entrenched parenting disputes. The interventions each targeted psychological resolution parental conflict, enhanced reflective function, and associated reduction distress their children. child‐focused (CF) intervention actively supported parents to consider the needs children, but without any direct involvement while child‐inclusive (CI) incorporated separate...
AbstractThe Family Law Amendment (Shared Parental Responsibility) Act 2006 has brought into sharp focus the issue of shared physical care children, post separation. In this paper, we explore new data suggesting accumulative risks for children whose is divided between parents who lack core relational infrastructure to support a healthy environment care. Developmental background provided, giving context complex dynamics at play, particularly young experience in hostile climate. A discussion...
Every day in family law courts and mediation rooms across the world, complex decisions are made about postseparation parenting that affect developmental outcomes of countless children. Attorneys, judges, parents, even mental health professionals often poorly equipped to accurately apply knowledge these decisions, including from vast field attachment theory. A mounting body research psychology neuroscience confirms relationships be a central axis child's pathway, every family, culture...
Abstract Background Maternal mental health during pregnancy and postpartum predicts later emotional behavioural problems in children. Even though most perinatal begin before pregnancy, the consequences of preconception maternal for children's early development have not been prospectively studied. Methods We used data from two prospective Australian intergenerational cohorts, with 756 women assessed repeatedly between age 13 29 years, at 1 year 1231 subsequent pregnancies. Offspring infant...
Background Penalised regression methods are a useful atheoretical approach for both developing predictive models and selecting key indicators within an often substantially larger pool of available indicators. In comparison to traditional methods, penalised improve prediction in new data by shrinking the size coefficients retaining those with greater than zero. However, performance selection depends on specific algorithm implemented. The purpose this study was examine feature (i.e.,...
In 2006, the Australian parliament introduced new family law legislation about substantively shared overnight parenting arrangements between divorced couples. Other countries and state legislatures are currently debating merits of similar legislation. A largely unquestionable premise underpins this reform, namely that majority children from separated families demonstrably benefit ongoing, warm available involvement both parents, in a climate well‐managed interparental conflict. The moves...
In this far-reaching interview, Allan Schore, renowned scientist, clinical psychologist, and neuropsychologist, considers the place of neuroscience in facilitating developmental knowledge better decision making family law matters. He details current science on neurology attachment formation, function early caregiving relationships, gender, perspectives conflict violence, implications for parenting arrangements. At meta level, Schore describes responsibilities system promoting development...
The AFCC Think Tank on Research, Policy, Practice, and Shared Parenting was convened in response to an identified need for a progression of thinking the family law field, removed from current polarizing debates surrounding postseparation care infants very young children. We share this goal as our research commentaries have been centrally implicated controversies. Our collaboration over empirical paper its clinical counterpart endorses higher‐order thinking, away dichotomous arguments, more...
Addressing the issue of unintended pregnancy is a national priority. One proposed strategy to reduce improve access oral contraceptives by changing them over-the-counter (OTC) status. Existing data indicate that meet safety criteria required OTC products. Available literature demonstrates women can self-screen for contraindications and do this as well clinicians, experience with emergency contraception suggests would not increase sexual risk-taking behavior. Women support contraceptives, but...
Attachment status in early childhood is a key yet modifiable contributor to the development of social–emotional competence. The security and organization infant–mother attachment bond particularly susceptible stressors caregiving environment. While impacts normative interparental conflict on infant are increasingly understood, potentially unique place intimate partner violence (IPV) this pathway has been under-researched. This study surveyed all empirical work area, including unpublished...
The impact of violence between parents or caregivers on a child's inner world is complex. Over recent years, researchers have gained vital knowledge about the workings trauma in children induced by family violence. Of particular power has been definitive evidence potential for interspousal to disrupt neurological and biochemical pathways developing child. From their respective vantage points, clinicians name imperative early identification traumatised domestic violence, service preventing...
What are the longitudinal consequences of disrupted attachment relationships, and what bearing might that have on our thinking about divorce custody matters? In this paper, Alan Sroufe, William Harris Professor Child Development, University Minnesota, addresses these issues. Sroufe is a lead researcher Minnesota Longitudinal Study Childhood, now 30-year research program sets out to explore development children growing up in climates chronic socioeconomic risk. This study widely attributed...