Category: Family Law
Beyond co‐occurrence: addressing the intersections of domestic violence, mental health and substance misuse. (2022)
This paper reports an Australian project designed to simultaneously explore and capacity build professional practice when working at the intersection ...
Participatory practice guideline development at the intersections of domestic and family violence, mental distress and/or parental substance use (2022)
It is well established that the service system has a poor history of responding holistically to address the needs of ...
DAHLIA-19 Australian Case Study
Abstract: Situated against this background of changes to the family law context is the National Covid-19 List. The Australian mapping ...
Beyond the Victim-offender Binary: Legal and Anti-violence Intervention Considerations With Women Who Have Used Force in the U.S. and Australia (2021)
In the United States (U.S.) and Australian contexts, the fight to achieve legal and societal recognition of cisgender men's violence ...
Domestic violence and the impact on young children (2021)
This chapter outlines the impact of domestic violence (DV) on young children. Exposure to DV has detrimental effects on the ...
Practice-led research: Developing communities of practice to drive research and practice change in the domestic and family violence arena (2020)
Conducting practice research with migrants and refugees is a complex exercise, involving multiple agendas, diverse actors and varied intercultural relationships ...
Shifting practice in domestic violence: child protection workers partnering with mothers (2019)
This chapter will draw on recent research (a national case reading of child protection files in Australia) to highlight the ...
The socio-cultural factors of adult family homicide
The research examines the socio-cultural factors of adult familial homicide in Victoria. The project aims to examine the role that ...
Humphreys, C., Diemer, K., Bornemisza, A., Spiteri‐Staines, A., Kaspiew, R., & Horsfall, B. (2019). More present than absent: Men who use domestic violence and their fathering. Child & Family Social Work.
Abstract: An earlier article referred to the “absent presence” of the perpetrator in the lives of children and their mothers ...
Macvean, M. L., Humphreys, C., & Healey, L. (2018). Facilitating the collaborative interface between child protection and specialist domestic violence services: a scoping review. Australian Social Work, 71(2), 148-161.
Abstract: Service provision in domestic and family violence involves complex responses from multiple systems. Early evidence involving other sectors suggests ...