The KIND Program for Adolescent Family and Dating Violence
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2023
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Moulds, L.G.
Malvaso, C.
Hackett, L.
Francis, L.
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Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy: innovative and contextual approaches to human problems, 2023; 44(2):237-254
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Lauren Grace Moulds, Catia Malvaso, Louisa Hackett, and Luke Francis
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Adolescent relational violence has significant and pervasive impacts for young people’s current and future relationships. It is known that there is a cross-over between adolescent family violence and other offending behaviour, meaning there is a need for youth justice systems to recognise and respond to these forms of violence. This paper outlines a pilot intervention, the KIND Program, run in Youth Justice South Australia, and aimed at intervening with adolescent family and dating violence. KIND aims to provide tailored systemic intervention to young people and their support network, reducing violence while increasing connection and strength within relationships. The pilot of KIND ran for seven months in 2017, and had eight families participating in the program. Participation in, feedback from, and impact of the program suggest that participation was worthwhile and useful for young people and their families. The KIND Program would benefit from a more extensive pilot period to explore the outcomes of this form of intervention.
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© 2019 Australian Association of Family Therapy