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Social dilemma: The challenges for international students’ mental health
Social dilemma: The challenges for international students’ mental health

COVID, Education, Mental Health & Wellbeing, Wellbeing

Social dilemma: The challenges for international students’ mental health

By Helen Forbes-Mewett, Associate Professor of Sociology, School of Social Sciences Australian universities are understood to have the highest number of international students per capita worldwide. Their wellbeing is paramount to the higher education sector. Despite the struggles international students face while studying in an unfamiliar environment, there’s a counter-narrative regarding the many associated positives [...]

By Generation Next|2021-10-11T18:16:21+11:00October 1st, 2021|Categories: COVID, Education, Mental Health & Wellbeing, Wellbeing|Tags: Article|0 Comments

Emotional vaccine: 3 ways we can move from ‘languishing’ to ‘flourishing’ in these testing times
Emotional vaccine: 3 ways we can move from ‘languishing’ to ‘flourishing’ in these testing times

COVID, Mental Health & Wellbeing, Wellbeing

Emotional vaccine: 3 ways we can move from ‘languishing’ to ‘flourishing’ in these testing times

By Dougal Sutherland, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington If you’re feeling uninspired, stagnant and joyless, you’re not alone. A sense of languishing is one of the dominant emotions of 2021 as we navigate life in an ongoing pandemic and process other terrible world events alongside. But although many people are struggling and [...]

By Generation Next|2021-10-11T18:16:21+11:00October 1st, 2021|Categories: COVID, Mental Health & Wellbeing, Wellbeing|Tags: Article|0 Comments

Counselling almost always happens in a room — what if more people had the option of going outside?
Counselling almost always happens in a room — what if more people had the option of going outside?

COVID, Mental Health & Wellbeing, Wellbeing

Counselling almost always happens in a room — what if more people had the option of going outside?

By Will W Dobud, Charles Sturt University If you peered through the keyhole of any psychotherapy session, chances are they would all look very similar. There may be nearly 1,000 types of therapies — such as cognitive behavioural and family therapy — but you will typically find a client and practitioner in a room, sitting [...]

By Generation Next|2021-10-11T18:16:21+11:00September 27th, 2021|Categories: COVID, Mental Health & Wellbeing, Wellbeing|Tags: Article|1 Comment

Young people, the pandemic, and the shifting post-school transitions to employment
Young people, the pandemic, and the shifting post-school transitions to employment

COVID, Mental Health & Wellbeing, Wellbeing

Young people, the pandemic, and the shifting post-school transitions to employment

By Lucas Walsh, Professor, School of Education Culture and Society The pandemic has amplified feelings of uncertainty in young people’s lives. Its spectre looms over their ability to plan, be it for travel, finding and securing affordable housing, attending a wedding (perhaps their own), or whether their small children are going to school. Uncertainty is [...]

By Generation Next|2021-09-27T12:04:04+10:00September 27th, 2021|Categories: COVID, Mental Health & Wellbeing, Wellbeing|Tags: Article|0 Comments

Promoting health in schools: Old idea, new opportunities
Promoting health in schools: Old idea, new opportunities

Education, Social and Emotional Learning, Wellbeing

Promoting health in schools: Old idea, new opportunities

By Dr Monika Raniti, Dr Ruth Aston and Professor Susan Sawyer The idea of health-promoting schools is not new. Defined by the World Health Organization (WHO), these are schools that are “constantly strengthening their capacity as a healthy setting for living, learning and working” for all members of the school community. A health-promoting school [...]

By Generation Next|2021-09-20T13:34:48+10:00September 20th, 2021|Categories: Education, Social and Emotional Learning, Wellbeing|Tags: Article|0 Comments

Giving students time for recovery and learning
Giving students time for recovery and learning

COVID

Giving students time for recovery and learning

By Jane Nursey, Professor Helen Cahill, Professor Jim Watterston and Professor Lisa Gibbs Since early 2020, Australia’s bushfires and then the pandemic have rapidly altered our ways of living and learning. As time goes on, the one thing that is certain is unpredictability, requiring flexibility and constant adjustments. It isn’t helpful to catastrophise. As Professor [...]

By Generation Next|2021-09-20T13:29:32+10:00September 20th, 2021|Categories: COVID|Tags: Article|0 Comments

Physical activity is critical for children’s quality of life
Physical activity is critical for children’s quality of life

Nature Play, Wellbeing

Physical activity is critical for children’s quality of life

By Associate Professor Kim Dalziel, Dr Li Huang , Dr Natalie Carvalho and Xiuqin Xiong One thing that most families learn at some point – particularly during lockdown – is that balancing a child’s screen time with physical activity isn’t an easy task. Although research and parental guides tell us that time on screens, sleep [...]

By Generation Next|2021-09-20T13:30:46+10:00September 20th, 2021|Categories: Nature Play, Wellbeing|Tags: Article|0 Comments

More children are self-harming since the start of the pandemic. Here’s what parents and teachers can do to help
More children are self-harming since the start of the pandemic. Here’s what parents and teachers can do to help

COVID, self-harm

More children are self-harming since the start of the pandemic. Here’s what parents and teachers can do to help

By Emily Berger, Monash University There has been a reported spike in young people attending emergency departments for self-harm and suicide during the pandemic. In New South Wales, presentations to emergency departments for self-harm and suicidal thoughts are reportedly up by 47% since before the pandemic. In the year to July 29 2021, there were [...]

By Generation Next|2021-09-13T12:16:31+10:00September 13th, 2021|Categories: COVID, self-harm|Tags: Article|0 Comments

Masks, ventilation, vaccination: 3 ways to protect our kids against the Delta variant
Masks, ventilation, vaccination: 3 ways to protect our kids against the Delta variant

COVID

Masks, ventilation, vaccination: 3 ways to protect our kids against the Delta variant

By Katrina McLean, Bond University and Natasha Yates, Bond University Last year in the COVID-19 pandemic, children were not catching or spreading the virus much. The main focus was on protecting our elderly and vulnerable. But the Delta strain has changed things. Children around the world are contracting Delta in high numbers and some frontline [...]

By Generation Next|2021-09-13T12:05:08+10:00September 13th, 2021|Categories: COVID|Tags: Article|0 Comments

Uni students have had to be vaccinated against other diseases — COVID-19 is no different
Uni students have had to be vaccinated against other diseases — COVID-19 is no different

COVID, Education

Uni students have had to be vaccinated against other diseases — COVID-19 is no different

By Paul Harpur, The University of Queensland and Peter D. Blanck, Syracuse University Should universities require students to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 before attending campus once vaccines are readily available in Australia? Professor Iain Martin, vice-chancellor of Deakin University and former dean of the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences at the University of [...]

By Generation Next|2021-08-23T12:04:10+10:00August 23rd, 2021|Categories: COVID, Education|Tags: Article|0 Comments