Jenny Anderson discusses some of the barriers and enablers that influenced the ability of Community Liaison Workers to engage with men from a variety of cultural backgrounds which may provide ideas for other services. Men are less likely than women to seek professional help for health or relationship problems in Australia. Finding ways to encourage...

This article describes the P5 Program which focuses on supporting parents in dealing with family issues, with the broad objective of providing greater depth, connection and meaning to all family and social relationships, and promoting a prosocial, universal skill-based approach to parenting. Grounded in the view that parents are best able to meet the needs...

Divorce trends have sparked a great deal of research into and debates about key reasons behind these trends. Included here are the roles of pre-separation difficulties, the separation itself, and post-separation upheavals in explaining children's elevated risk of negative developmental outcomes. The general public is unlikely to be aware of all this research. Rather, their...

Mensline Australia is the only national, professional telephone counselling service for men in Australia. Although the service focuses on family relationship concerns, counsellors also respond to a broad range of other issues that impact on men, including physical health, mental health, sexual concerns, financial pressures, legal issues and work-related concerns. Over the past seven years...

This paper gives a brief overview of mental health problems, including types and prevalence, causes of mental illness, and family-related risk and protective factors.