Engaging Ideas – 2006
Coming Up
- Bernadette McDermott and Bruce Watt – Overview of the Child and Youth Forensic Outreach Service and research topic: Enhancing Effec tive Treatment for Conduct Problems: Clinician’s engagement strategies with challenging families. 17 August 2006, 2:00 – 3:30 pm
- Michael Cuthill and Dr Steve Johnson (from USA) – Developing a social sustainability framework for SEQ and Social sustainability: the Portland story. 14 September 2006 2:00 – 4:00 pm
- Matthew Manning – Methodology for measuring the cost utility of early childhood developmental intervention. TBA
- Clive Williams – Stealing a car to be a man: The importance of cars and driving in the gender identity of adolescent males. TBA
More speakers to come...
If you would like to RSVP to any of these Engaging Ideas event please email Ms Joanne Wells at research@communities.qld.gov.au or phone 3227 8579.
Past
Mental Health (suicide/self harm) risk at entry into juvenile justice system - Dr Stephen Stathis & Mr Paul Letters. Held on 22 June 2006-06-23
This presentation covered two principal features:
- operation of the Mental Health, Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs (MHATODS) service provided by Queensland Health at the Brisbane Youth Detention Centre
- an overview of suicide in Australia and review of recent research into use of suicide and self harm screening assessment principles and tools with young people in detention.
Key finding is that the current assessment tools have high sensitivity but low specificity (i.e. they tend to produce ‘high risk ratings) when used with young people in detention.
Transitions and Turning Points: Examining Links between Child Maltreatment and Juvenile Offending - Dr Anna Stewart. Held on 7 June 06
This research examines the links between child maltreatment and juvenile offending by analysing data from young people born in 1983 and 1984 who had contact with the Department of Families for a child protection matter. This data was then matched to juvenile offending records, to obtain a longitudinal view of these young people’s life course of maltreatment and subsequent offending.
The young people were put into six distinctive groups, distinguished by the frequency and duration of the maltreatment and the age of onset.
One of the key findings of the research was that for two of the six groups, victimisation experiences peaked around the transition from preschool to primary school. A further two groups peaked at the transition from primary school to secondary school. Significantly, different offending rates were found among children in each of these trajectories even after controlling for gender and Indigenous status. The research also indicated that children who experienced victimisation in adolescence were more likely to offend than children who only experienced maltreatment before adolescence.
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