Kathleen Falster
Biographic Data
| ID | 4413193 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kathleen Falster |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kathleen |
| FAMILY NAME | Falster |
| SIGNATURE | FALSTER K |
| AFFILIATIONS | UNSW Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2035-5485 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Realising Aboriginal Community Controlled Approaches to Child Reunification
Reunification rates for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in out‐of‐home care (OOHC) in Australia are critically low, even though reunification is the preferred permanency outcome for children following removal, and despite a range of mechanisms and strategies ostensibly to support effective reunification. To better understand the barriers to reunification of Aboriginal children, from the perspective of practitioners, nine practition…
Re-envisaging child protection contacts as an early prevention opportunity to support child development and well-being
OBJECTIVES: To quantify developmental vulnerability at age 5 by child protection contacts before school in two Australian states. METHODS: All children with birth, child protection and/or 2009, 2012, 2015 and 2018 Australian Early Development Census (AEDC) data in New South Wales (NSW) and South Australia (SA) were grouped according to child protection contact before school: no contact, child protection reports, screened-in reports, investigation…
Prevalence of maternal substance use problems during pregnancy and the first 2 years of life
OBJECTIVES: To estimate the prevalence of maternal substance use problems during the first 1000 days of children's lives, to inform planning and resourcing of antenatal screening and substance use in pregnancy services, alongside antenatal and postnatal health, parenting and social support services for pregnant women/new mothers and their babies. METHOD: This whole-population cohort was assembled from birth registration, perinatal and hospital da…
The Physical and Mental Health of Mothers of Aboriginal Children in Out‐of‐Home Care in Western Australia
There is a need to better understand the physical and mental health of mothers of Aboriginal children who enter out‐of‐home care to prevent removals. Evidence suggests that families involved in child protection systems often experience significant needs that may culminate in child removals. For Aboriginal families, these are compounded by the inter‐generational trauma from colonisation which has resulted in health issues, poverty and family viole…
The burden of prenatal and early life maternal substance use among children at risk of maltreatment
Aboriginal Children Placed in Out-of-Home Care
The overrepresentation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (respectfully referred to hereafter as "Aboriginal") children in the child protection system is a concern in Australia, with Aboriginal children placed in out-of-home care at a rate 11 times that of non-Aboriginal children. This study utilised linked administrative data to determine the longitudinal child protection pathways from birth to age 10 years for a cohort of 15,815 Aborigina…
Restoring Children From Out‐of‐Home Care
Restoring children from out‐of‐home care (OOHC) to their families is the preferred outcome for all children removed by child protection services, yet little is known about how restoration processes are experienced by families and services supporting them. This paper provides important insights about Aboriginal child restoration from 40 practitioners and stakeholders at a community forum led by Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations in regi…
Identifying enablers and barriers to the implementation of Functional family Therapy – Child Welfare (FFT-CW®) into the routine delivery of child protection services in New South Wales, Australia
Functional Family Therapy – Child Welfare (FFT-CW®) aims to reduce the risk of child maltreatment and out-of-home care entry for vulnerable children. To identify enablers and barriers to implementing FFT-CW® into the routine delivery of child protection services from policy and service provider perspectives. Eighteen program and policy experts, and 54 service providers, involved in the delivery of FFT-CW® across 6 districts in New South Wales, Au…
Enablers and barriers to the implementation of Multisystemic Therapy for Child Abuse and Neglect (MST-CAN) into the routine delivery of child protection services in New South Wales, Australia
Multisystemic Therapy for Child Abuse and Neglect (MST-CAN) aims to reduce the likelihood of child maltreatment and out-of-home care (OOHC) entry for high-risk children aged between six and 17 years. To identify the key enablers and barriers to implementing MST-CAN into the routine delivery of child protection services. Twenty MST-CAN and policy experts, and 25 service providers, involved in the delivery of MST-CAN in New South Wales (NSW), Austr…
Preschool attendance and developmental outcomes at age five in Indigenous and non-Indigenous children
Background Policies to increase Australian Indigenous children’s participation in preschool aim to reduce developmental inequities between Indigenous and non-Indigenous children. This study aims to understand the benefits of preschool participation by quantifying the association between preschool participation in the year before school and developmental outcomes at age five in Indigenous and non-Indigenous children. Methods We used data from peri…
Social and emotional developmental vulnerability at age five in Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal children in New South Wales
Most of the gap in early childhood social and emotional development between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal children can be attributed to socioeconomic and early life health disadvantage. Culturally safe health and social policies addressing the socioeconomic and health inequalities experienced by Aboriginal children are urgently required
School starting age and child development in a state-wide, population-level cohort of children in their first year of school in New South Wales, Australia
In Australia's most populous state, New South Wales (NSW), children born between January and July have the choice to start school in the year they turn five, or delay entry until the year they turn six. We used linked administrative data for children who started school in NSW in 2009 or 2012 (N = 162,878) to identify child, family and area characteristics associated with delayed entry, and to explore the relationship between school starting age a…
Inequalities in Hospitalized Unintentional Injury Between Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal Children in New South Wales, Australia
Objectives. To quantify inequalities in rates of unintentional injury–related hospitalizations between Australian Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal children. Methods. We used linked hospital and mortality data to construct a retrospective whole-of-population birth cohort including 1 124 717 children born in the state of New South Wales, Australia, between July 1, 2000 and December 31, 2012. We adjusted hazard ratios (HRs) of first injury hospitalizat…
Disproportionate Impact of Combination Antiretroviral Therapy on Aids Incidence in Australia
Hepatitis C Virus Acquisition among Injecting Drug Users
Restoring Children From Out‐of‐Home Care
Restoring children from out‐of‐home care (OOHC) to their families is the preferred outcome for all children removed by child protection services, yet little is known about how restoration processes are experienced by families and services supporting them. This paper provides important insights about Aboriginal child restoration from 40 practitioners and stakeholders at a community forum led by Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations in regi…
Aboriginal Children Placed in Out-of-Home Care
The overrepresentation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (respectfully referred to hereafter as "Aboriginal") children in the child protection system is a concern in Australia, with Aboriginal children placed in out-of-home care at a rate 11 times that of non-Aboriginal children. This study utilised linked administrative data to determine the longitudinal child protection pathways from birth to age 10 years for a cohort of 15,815 Aborigina…
Inequalities in Hospitalized Unintentional Injury Between Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal Children in New South Wales, Australia
Objectives. To quantify inequalities in rates of unintentional injury–related hospitalizations between Australian Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal children. Methods. We used linked hospital and mortality data to construct a retrospective whole-of-population birth cohort including 1 124 717 children born in the state of New South Wales, Australia, between July 1, 2000 and December 31, 2012. We adjusted hazard ratios (HRs) of first injury hospitalizat…
School starting age and child development in a state-wide, population-level cohort of children in their first year of school in New South Wales, Australia
In Australia's most populous state, New South Wales (NSW), children born between January and July have the choice to start school in the year they turn five, or delay entry until the year they turn six. We used linked administrative data for children who started school in NSW in 2009 or 2012 (N = 162,878) to identify child, family and area characteristics associated with delayed entry, and to explore the relationship between school starting age a…
The Physical and Mental Health of Mothers of Aboriginal Children in Out‐of‐Home Care in Western Australia
There is a need to better understand the physical and mental health of mothers of Aboriginal children who enter out‐of‐home care to prevent removals. Evidence suggests that families involved in child protection systems often experience significant needs that may culminate in child removals. For Aboriginal families, these are compounded by the inter‐generational trauma from colonisation which has resulted in health issues, poverty and family viole…
Identifying enablers and barriers to the implementation of Functional family Therapy – Child Welfare (FFT-CW®) into the routine delivery of child protection services in New South Wales, Australia
Functional Family Therapy – Child Welfare (FFT-CW®) aims to reduce the risk of child maltreatment and out-of-home care entry for vulnerable children. To identify enablers and barriers to implementing FFT-CW® into the routine delivery of child protection services from policy and service provider perspectives. Eighteen program and policy experts, and 54 service providers, involved in the delivery of FFT-CW® across 6 districts in New South Wales, Au…
Hepatitis C Virus Acquisition among Injecting Drug Users
Hepatitis C Virus Acquisition among Injecting Drug Users
Disproportionate Impact of Combination Antiretroviral Therapy on Aids Incidence in Australia
Inequalities in Hospitalized Unintentional Injury Between Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal Children in New South Wales, Australia
Objectives. To quantify inequalities in rates of unintentional injury–related hospitalizations between Australian Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal children. Methods. We used linked hospital and mortality data to construct a retrospective whole-of-population birth cohort including 1 124 717 children born in the state of New South Wales, Australia, between July 1, 2000 and December 31, 2012. We adjusted hazard ratios (HRs) of first injury hospitalizat…
Social and emotional developmental vulnerability at age five in Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal children in New South Wales
Most of the gap in early childhood social and emotional development between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal children can be attributed to socioeconomic and early life health disadvantage. Culturally safe health and social policies addressing the socioeconomic and health inequalities experienced by Aboriginal children are urgently required
School starting age and child development in a state-wide, population-level cohort of children in their first year of school in New South Wales, Australia
In Australia's most populous state, New South Wales (NSW), children born between January and July have the choice to start school in the year they turn five, or delay entry until the year they turn six. We used linked administrative data for children who started school in NSW in 2009 or 2012 (N = 162,878) to identify child, family and area characteristics associated with delayed entry, and to explore the relationship between school starting age a…
Preschool attendance and developmental outcomes at age five in Indigenous and non-Indigenous children
Background Policies to increase Australian Indigenous children’s participation in preschool aim to reduce developmental inequities between Indigenous and non-Indigenous children. This study aims to understand the benefits of preschool participation by quantifying the association between preschool participation in the year before school and developmental outcomes at age five in Indigenous and non-Indigenous children. Methods We used data from peri…
Identifying enablers and barriers to the implementation of Functional family Therapy – Child Welfare (FFT-CW®) into the routine delivery of child protection services in New South Wales, Australia
Functional Family Therapy – Child Welfare (FFT-CW®) aims to reduce the risk of child maltreatment and out-of-home care entry for vulnerable children. To identify enablers and barriers to implementing FFT-CW® into the routine delivery of child protection services from policy and service provider perspectives. Eighteen program and policy experts, and 54 service providers, involved in the delivery of FFT-CW® across 6 districts in New South Wales, Au…
Enablers and barriers to the implementation of Multisystemic Therapy for Child Abuse and Neglect (MST-CAN) into the routine delivery of child protection services in New South Wales, Australia
Multisystemic Therapy for Child Abuse and Neglect (MST-CAN) aims to reduce the likelihood of child maltreatment and out-of-home care (OOHC) entry for high-risk children aged between six and 17 years. To identify the key enablers and barriers to implementing MST-CAN into the routine delivery of child protection services. Twenty MST-CAN and policy experts, and 25 service providers, involved in the delivery of MST-CAN in New South Wales (NSW), Austr…
The burden of prenatal and early life maternal substance use among children at risk of maltreatment
Aboriginal Children Placed in Out-of-Home Care
The overrepresentation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (respectfully referred to hereafter as "Aboriginal") children in the child protection system is a concern in Australia, with Aboriginal children placed in out-of-home care at a rate 11 times that of non-Aboriginal children. This study utilised linked administrative data to determine the longitudinal child protection pathways from birth to age 10 years for a cohort of 15,815 Aborigina…
Restoring Children From Out‐of‐Home Care
Restoring children from out‐of‐home care (OOHC) to their families is the preferred outcome for all children removed by child protection services, yet little is known about how restoration processes are experienced by families and services supporting them. This paper provides important insights about Aboriginal child restoration from 40 practitioners and stakeholders at a community forum led by Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations in regi…
Realising Aboriginal Community Controlled Approaches to Child Reunification
Reunification rates for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in out‐of‐home care (OOHC) in Australia are critically low, even though reunification is the preferred permanency outcome for children following removal, and despite a range of mechanisms and strategies ostensibly to support effective reunification. To better understand the barriers to reunification of Aboriginal children, from the perspective of practitioners, nine practition…
Re-envisaging child protection contacts as an early prevention opportunity to support child development and well-being
OBJECTIVES: To quantify developmental vulnerability at age 5 by child protection contacts before school in two Australian states. METHODS: All children with birth, child protection and/or 2009, 2012, 2015 and 2018 Australian Early Development Census (AEDC) data in New South Wales (NSW) and South Australia (SA) were grouped according to child protection contact before school: no contact, child protection reports, screened-in reports, investigation…
Prevalence of maternal substance use problems during pregnancy and the first 2 years of life
OBJECTIVES: To estimate the prevalence of maternal substance use problems during the first 1000 days of children's lives, to inform planning and resourcing of antenatal screening and substance use in pregnancy services, alongside antenatal and postnatal health, parenting and social support services for pregnant women/new mothers and their babies. METHOD: This whole-population cohort was assembled from birth registration, perinatal and hospital da…
The Physical and Mental Health of Mothers of Aboriginal Children in Out‐of‐Home Care in Western Australia
There is a need to better understand the physical and mental health of mothers of Aboriginal children who enter out‐of‐home care to prevent removals. Evidence suggests that families involved in child protection systems often experience significant needs that may culminate in child removals. For Aboriginal families, these are compounded by the inter‐generational trauma from colonisation which has resulted in health issues, poverty and family viole…
Medicine (13 works) · Demography (8 works) · Population (7 works) · Child Abuse and Trauma (6 works) · Child Welfare and Adoption (6 works) · Cohort (6 works) · Environmental health (5 works) · Nursing (5 works) · Pediatrics (5 works) · Psychiatry (5 works)