A social enterprise providing education and information to protect and enhance the mental health of young people
New calls have come from the Clinical Senate of WA (comprising of 75 elite health professionals) to raise the legal drinking age of young people to 21 years old. A position statement has been presented to Health Minister Kim Hames. The reasons sighted are the need to tackle binge drinking, increased risk taking behaviour by [...]
Australia’s leading resilience experts in one event. A unique combination of lectures and focused workshops presented by Australia’s leading resilience experts to provide you with the knowledge and skills to implement resilience in your own professional environment. This one day seminar is to be held in Brisbane at the Southbank Institute of Technology, on Friday 16th [...]
Dr Rebecca Huntley is a social researcher and author. She recently conducted the 2011 Ipsos Mackay Report, Being Australian, which explored perceptions of what it means to be 'Australian' in today's social, political and economic climate. The report involved talking to more than 100 men and women, from lower-middle to upper-middle socio-economic groups, participating in [...]
18% of US teen are obese* A recent study carried out in the US, Video game playing increases food intake in adolescents: a randomized crossover study, has found that trends in video game playing parallel obesity rates on a population basis. In the first such study of this kind, Canadian and Danish researchers tested their [...]
61% of year 12 girls have had sex A recent article in the Sydney Morning Herald looked at the secret lives of teenager girls; what they get up to when they are out on the town. For many parents it must have been a stomach churning read. OK everyone was young once, but the lines [...]
A recent report, The Female Body’s Dysmorphic Epidemic: How Contemporary Women Are Coping With Our Aberrant Social Reality, looks at the growing trend in women to look emaciated as a fashion and beauty statement. According to the Oxford Dictionary Sarcopenia is defined as the loss of skeletal muscle mass and strength as a result of [...]
Fulltime workers who used a traditional ‘silent’ form of meditation became much less stressed and depressed compared to more conventional approaches to relaxation or even placebo, according to a paper published today in the online journal Evidence Based Complementary Medicine, a leading publication in its field. A team of researchers, led by Dr Ramesh Manocha [...]
It seems that breast feeding your child helps to prevent emotional and behavioural problems as they develop and enter the school system. This is the finding of a new report. The recently published UK report, Breast feeding and child behaviour in the Millennium, took data from a large cohort to examine the association between the duration [...]
A recent study, Cardiovascular Events and Death in Children Exposed and Unexposed to ADHD Agents, compared the rate of severe cardiovascular events and death in children who use attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) medications versus nonusers. The study was a result of The American Heart Association raising concerns about the safety of these drugs. A cohort study [...]
ConductDisorders.com - a soft place to land for the battle weary parent. This website was setup as a forum in the mid 1990’s and it has grown since then into a site where parents and carers with children who have challanging behaviour can go and find support, help and resources. They are a group of parents [...]
