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Project title: Investigating adolescent family violence project

Project description:

The Monash Gender and Family Violence Program is currently conducting a pilot project, funded by a Monash Affinity grant, to explore attitudes towards, patterns of, and the impact of Adolescent Family Violence (AFV). AFV describes violence perpetrated by young people against family members or carers. The project is being carried out by a multidisciplinary team of Monash University researchers. It builds on, and complements, work being conducted in the United Kingdom (UK) investigating adolescent violence towards parents. The findings will be of relevance to all Australian jurisdictions, and have the potential to inform and reform legal, health and social responses to AFV, and provide a greater understanding of ‘risk’. This research will also form the basis of a national project.

Research activities to date

Assoc Prof Rachel Condry, Oxford University, the lead researcher on adolescent violence research in the UK, visited and conducted a workshop with Monash researchers in February 2017.

A Context Report was published in December 2017:Investigating Adolescent Family Violence: Background, Research and Directions

Investigating Adolescent Family Violence: Background, Research and Directions.

Focus groups for those who support adolescents and families and an anonymous survey have been completed (our thanks to those who shared their experiences so generously), including: Focus groups and interviews with 52 service providers and experts (including community service organisations, health professionals, counsellors and specialist family violence services) 120 survey responses from people who had experienced AFV.

The final Research Report: Investigating Adolescent Family Violence in Victoria: Understanding experiences and practitioner perspectives, will be launched in 2018.

The project grant has also been the basis for the development *of* International Network Addressing Filial Violence, which will hold its first network event in Prato, Italy in September 2018.

For more information please refer to our website, or contact the project contacts:
Dr Kate Fitz-Gibbon
Prof Jane Maree Maher
or Dr Karla Elliott.

Project contact
Dr Kate Fitz-Gibbon
Monash University

Funding Body
Monash Affinity Grant

Project start & End Dates
January 2017. Completed July 2018