A social enterprise providing education and information to protect and enhance the mental health of young people
There is a growing body of evidence that suggests extended periods of time spent on the internet and social network sites will ultimately affect how a young person’s developing brain works. UK neurologist and Oxford University scientist, Baroness Susan Greenfield has coined the term ‘mind change’ to explain these changes. She told the National Press [...]
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 [...]
Young people have found a new way to indulge in cyber bullying. In doing so, they have reached an all time low. The latest craze seems to be something called a Root rater. Using social network sites young people are now humiliating, bullying and degrading others by making spiteful and nasty sexual comments. Root rater [...]
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 [...]
Psych4schools This website has been created by psychologist Murray Evely (Victorian Department of Education and Early Childhood Development Stream Leader) and educational psychologist Zoe Ganim. Psych4Schools provides practical online resources to help teachers, leadership teams and other professionals work more effectively with children, parents and colleagues. All Psych4Schools resources and services are designed to assist [...]
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 [...]
