A social enterprise providing education and information to protect and enhance the mental health of young people
Talking for Change is a government-funded national program that aims to prevent child sexual abuse. It provides an anonymous national helpline and treatment options for anyone concerned about their attraction to children. Ainslie Heasman, Ontario Tech University Every year, thousands of children are victims of sexual abuse in Canada. The impacts of abuse can be [...]
Divna Haslam, Queensland University of Technology; Alina Morawska, The University of Queensland, and James Graham Scott, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute When people think about child maltreatment, many think of physical or sexual abuse. But a key finding of our Australian Child Maltreatment Study, published last month, is that emotional abuse is widespread and associated [...]
Nigel Howard, Flinders University and Andrew Bills, Flinders University Today federal and state education ministers are meeting to talk about school attendance. Federal Education Minister Jason Clare has repeatedly flagged this as a key concern. As he told Channel 7’s Sunrise last week: We’ve seen attendance at schools drop over the last ten years [...]
Sarah Hellewell, Curtin University It’s Friday night, your team is playing, and scores are nail-bitingly close. A player intercepts the ball, and bam! A player tackles his opponent to the ground. Trainers and doctors gather nervously while the commentators wait for confirmation: a concussion, mild traumatic brain injury, head knock, strike, tap, bump, blow … [...]
Katinka van de Ven, University of New England; Alison Ritter, UNSW Sydney, and Erin Cunningham, Indigenous Knowledge Alcohol and other drug treatment in Australia is generally only provided for individuals, often away from their families. Treatment can include withdrawal from the substance, counselling and residential rehabilitation. All these treatments work to improve health and [...]
Oliver Baumann, Bond University After a long day of work or study, your brain might feel like it has been drained of energy. But does our brain burn more energy when engaging in mental athletics than it does during other activities, such as watching TV? To answer this question, we have to look at the [...]
Linda Pagani, Université de Montréal; Amélie Gilker Beauchamp, Université de Montréal; Beatrice Necsa, Université de Montréal; Benoit Gauthier, Université de Montréal; Kianoush Harandian, Université de Montréal, and Laurie-Anne Kosak, Université de Montréal It took a half century for the first American Surgeon General Report to establish the link between tobacco and lung cancer. In response, [...]
Lauren Ball, The University of Queensland and Julie Marsh, The University of Queensland Got COVID? Again? Deciding what to eat can be mentally taxing, especially when you are not feeling well. However, our diet plays a role in preventing and managing poor health, including COVID. Having a healthy diet is associated with a reduced risk [...]
Cristina R. Reschke, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences and Jolanta Burke, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences If you hate Mondays, you’re most certainly in good company. After a couple of days off, many of us have difficulty settling back into our routines and work duties. You may even have dread and [...]
Brian Moore, Charles Sturt University and Sarah Redshaw, Charles Sturt University Schools are an obvious place to do mental health work with young people. This is important, as about one in seven young Australians are diagnosed with a mental illness. This includes issues like psychological distress, anxiety, depression, school refusal, and complex trauma. However, [...]
