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Formal After-Parties – The Online Fallout
Formal After-Parties – The Online Fallout

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Formal After-Parties – The Online Fallout

I’m regularly asked about my views and concerns of school formal after-parties, particularly those where every aspect of the after-party is outsourced to a private company. I want to share with you an emerging concern for some of these parties that is particularly of interest to schools, parents and teachers. In some cases, a private company contracts a photographer and videographer as part of the after-party package. The video footage and photos are then uploaded on the company’s social [...]

By Shridevi|2020-10-30T17:21:02+11:00August 2nd, 2015|Categories: Drugs & Alcohol, Society & Culture|Tags: After-parties, alcohol, Formals, Parents, photographer, schools, sexual behaviour, Social Media, students, teachers, technology, videographer|0 Comments

6 Ways to Save Your Brain

According to experts, everything from our gadgets to our eating habits and ultimately modern life itself are eroding our brains, chipping away at neural pathways and making us slower, denser and less capable of original thought. Most recently, a study by the University of Montreal, published this month, found that eating large quantities of saturated [...]

By Dr Ramesh Manocha|2015-08-02T22:12:17+10:00August 2nd, 2015|Categories: Mental Health & Wellbeing, Science & Research, Society & Culture|Tags: brain function, eating habits, education, gadgets, life style, nutrition|0 Comments

Fifty Percent of Teens Sext by Mobile Phone

One in two teenage boys and girls have used a mobile phone to send a sexually explicit image of themselves, according to the biggest sexting survey undertaken in Australia.Teenage girls are using their mobiles to send sexual images of themselves because they think it's fun and sexy, rather than because they feel pressured by boys, the new research from [...]

By Dr Ramesh Manocha|2015-08-02T21:57:43+10:00August 2nd, 2015|Categories: Cybersafety, Society & Culture|Tags: criminology, mobile phones, sexting, sexual images, technology, Teenagers|0 Comments

De-Transitioning

Known as detransitioning, the practice of switching from, in her case, female to male gender – and then back again – is profoundly under-researched but, say some observers, less rare than many believe. - Daisy Dumas Source: The in-betweeners

By Dr Ramesh Manocha|2015-08-03T15:21:26+10:00August 2nd, 2015|Categories: Mental Health & Wellbeing, Society & Culture|Tags: children, detransitioning, gender, Gender identity, psychology, transgender|0 Comments

3 Ways to Help Hope Grow in Teens

Think of two teenagers you have regular contact with: one who is resilient and happy, and one who is struggling and languishing. Imagine you are interviewing each of them, and you ask them to respond to each of these six questionnaire items: 1. I think I am doing pretty well 2. I can think of [...]

By Shridevi|2015-07-27T08:35:46+10:00July 27th, 2015|Categories: Mental Health & Wellbeing, Society & Culture|Tags: children, Happiness, hope, Optimism, parenting, Resilience, Teenagers|0 Comments

Let’s Talk about Mental Health

A few years ago, I felt as though my life had collapsed, and I fell into a severe depression. I lost the ability to stand up for myself, I backed away from conflict, I didn't believe in myself and I was afraid of what people thought of me. It was not long before I lost [...]

By Dr Ramesh Manocha|2015-07-27T14:36:22+10:00July 26th, 2015|Categories: Mental Health & Wellbeing, Society & Culture|Tags: Australian government, Beyond Blue, Depression, emotional intelligence, Meaghan Kausman, Mental Health|0 Comments

Helping Students Tackle Bullying: 6 Tips for The Classroom

Bullying remains a troubling issue in our schools. In 2013, one in three Australian children aged 10-11 reported being bullied (Lodge & Baxter, 2013). Children who are bullied at school are at a greater risk of experiencing serious psychological problems later in life (Ronning et al 2009, Rigby 2015). Children who engage in bullying behaviour are more likely to become involved in criminal activities as adults (Ttofi et al. 2012, Rigby, 2015). This far reaching impact is too great for [...]

By Shridevi|2015-07-20T08:37:43+10:00July 20th, 2015|Categories: Mental Health & Wellbeing, Society & Culture|Tags: bullying, bullying behaviour, fogging, harmful behaviours, healthy relationships, school, students|0 Comments

The Mask You Live In: Challenging Harmful Cultural Messages about Masculinity

One of the most moving experiences I have had as a speaker addressing young people around the country took place about a year ago when a Year 11 student in a WA secondary school stood to his feet during the discussion time following my talk on how our culture shaped boys views of themselves in negative ways. Visibly distressed, this young man recounted that his brother [...]

By Shridevi|2015-07-19T23:10:18+10:00July 19th, 2015|Categories: Society & Culture|Tags: boy crisis, Boys, emotions, Masculinity, The Mask You Live In, young men|0 Comments

How to Help Young People with Autism Stay on in Education after School

Fewer than one in four young people with autism continue their education after school. Too often, colleges and universities are just not equipped or well-enough prepared to support young people with autism to move into further or higher education. There are also problems with their transition from school. Even where schools do provide support for [...]

By Dr Ramesh Manocha|2015-07-20T15:32:38+10:00July 19th, 2015|Categories: Mental Health & Wellbeing, Society & Culture|Tags: Autism, disabilities, education, school, special needs, young people|0 Comments

Teaching Sex Education Misses the Point Unless You Teach Boys Not to Be Sexist

I am a mother of sons and the thought of them growing up within a culture of rampant male sexual entitlement terrifies me. Right now they are six and seven – still innocent, still able to see their female peers as fellow humans – but as adolescence approaches, I fear that a deluge of misogyny will [...]

By Dr Ramesh Manocha|2015-07-19T21:50:29+10:00July 19th, 2015|Categories: Society & Culture|Tags: gender, girls, name calling, sex education, sexism, sexual entitlement|0 Comments