Violence, Intentional Injury and Self-Harm

Suicide & self-inflicted injuries, road traffic accidents and falls accounted for nearly two-thirds of injuries in Australia in 2003 (Source: The burden of disease and injury in Australia 2003 [Australian Institute of Health and Welfare])

2,173 of the deaths that occurred in Australia during 2003-04 were the result of intentional self-harm. 215 deaths during 2003–04 involved assault by another person. Males were almost twice as likely as females to be a victim of homicide. (Source: Injury deaths, Australia 2003-04 [Australian Institute of Health and Welfare])

Follow the links below to find information about violence, abuse, assault and suicide, including support services.

Updated January 2009

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Child Abuse
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Domestic Violence
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Self Harm
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Sexual Abuse and Assault
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Suicide Prevention
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Links to information, research and statistics on suicide in Australia, as well as information on support groups.
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Title:   Sibling rivalry
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Sibling rivalry is a common problem, particularly among children who are the same sex and close together in age. Rivalry between brothers and sisters is lower in families where children feel they are treated equally by their parents. However some behaviours that worry parents are normal for toddlers, and may not have anything to do with a new baby.
Date:   Dec 2009
Title:   Media release Launch of AFL Players Association `Just Think´ campaign
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   The Australian Government today announced $132,000 for the Australian Football League (AFL) to support their work in tackling alcohol fuelled street violence, particularly amongst young Australians.
Date:   Sep 2009
Title:   Anger - tips to resolve arguments
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Resolving arguments is best done by negotiation, not anger. Relaxation can help anger and techniques can help resolve arguments. Violence is not a solution to angry feelings.
Date:   Mar 2009
Title:   Violence
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   This topic is about violence and abuse. It looks at what it is, what it does and how it happens. It also gives practical tips about changing violence and keeping everybody safe from it.
Date:   Mar 2009
Title:   Video games
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   Today's computer and video games are much more complex and interesting to the point where a gamer can become immersed in a multimedia-enabled 'virtual reality'.
Date:   Feb 2009
Title:   Video games
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   Today's computer and video games are much more complex and interesting, and the technology has advanced to the point where a gamer can become immersed.
Date:   Feb 2009
Title:   Anger
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   Anger is a natural human emotion, experienced by all of us. However, many people think of anger as a 'bad' or 'negative' emotion, which can prevent themselves or others from expressing it in a healthy and helpful way.
Date:   Jan 2009
Title:   Gambling - advice for family and friends
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Family and friends of problem gamblers can feel guilt, shame and helplessness. They may feel frustrated, isolated and angry about gambling and its impacts. Support services including counselling, financial counselling and legal advice are available to affected family and friends. In most situations it is best not to lend money to a problem gambler. Lending money often maintains the gambling behaviour.
Date:   Sep 2008
Title:   Harassment
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   Harassment (or bullying) causes real distress. It also has negative consequences for the person doing the harassment. Children and young people who are bullied can have problems like anxiety and depression.
Date:   Sep 2008
Title:   An abusive relationship
Publisher:   Inspire Foundation
Description:   Violence in a relationship can become destructive and physically and emotionally dangerous. If you are experiencing violence in a relationship, things can feel very confusing. This factsheet includes info on key signs of an abusive relationship, what to do if you are being abused, breaking the cycle of violence, and where you can go to get help.
Date:   Feb 2008
Title:   Women's health policy and program development in Australia: Student Factsheet
Publisher:   Women's Health Queensland Wide Inc
Description:   Outlines the development of the National Women's Health Policy, National Women's Health Program and the Queensland Women's Health Policy.
Date:   Oct 2007
Title:   Mental illness: fact and fiction - myDr.com.au
Publisher:   myDr
Description:   Mental illness is common. For example, about one in every 100 people will develop schizophrenia at some time in their lives and up to two in every hundred will develop bipolar disorder.
Date:   Jan 2007
Title:   School-based secondary prevention programmes for preventing violence
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Violence is recognised as a major global public health problem, thus there has been much attention placed on interventions aimed at preventing aggressive and violent behaviour. As aggressive behaviour in childhood is considered to be a risk factor for v...
Date:   May 2006
Title:   The NSW trauma registry profile of serious to critical injuries: 2006
Publisher:   NSW Department of Health
Description:   The NSW Trauma Registry Profile of Serious to Critical Injuries: 2006 is a report which identifies the trauma profile of serious to critically injured patients admitted to Trauma Centres. (This publication is provided by the NSW Insitute of Trauma and Injury Management).
Date:   Jan 2006
Title:   Mental illness: fact and fiction
Publisher:   SANE Australia
Description:   Mental illness is common. For example, about one in every hundred people will develop schizophrenia at some time in their lives and up to two in every hundred will develop bipolar disorder. Overall, about twenty in every hundred people will experience some form of mental health problem at some time in their lives.
Date:   Jan 2005
Title:   Mental illness and violence - myDr.com.au
Publisher:   myDr
Description:   Mental illness and violence are closely linked in the public mind.
Date:   Jan 2005
Title:   When it's right in front of you: Assisting health care workers to manage the effects of violence in rural and remote Australia
Publisher:   National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)
Description:   This manual has been developed for health care workers, managers and employer organisations in rural and remote Australia to assist them prepare for and respond to violence in ways that will minimise its impact.
Date:   Aug 2002
Title:   Child aggression curbed by reduction in TV time - myDr.com.au
Publisher:   myDr
Description:   Research in the USA has shown that excessive TV viewing may contribute to aggression in young people.
Date:   Feb 2002
Title:   Teenage Behaviour - When Parents Can't Cope
Publisher:   Multicultural Health Communication Service (NSW)
Description:   Advice on dealing with difficult behaviour including teenage violence towards parents.
Date:   Feb 1996
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