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The students of Mullumbimby High School in northern New South Wales walked out of class on Monday, protesting the "constant bullying" and "lack of supervision" at the school, following a brawl that resulted in the death of a student. Last Friday a lunch time fight caused a student to be sent to hospital suffering serious [...]
Did you know that the prospect of their child becoming a victim of bullying is now the top fear among Australian parents? Six-in-ten parents nominate bullying as their biggest concern, ahead of their children becoming a victim of crime (46 percent) or performing poorly at school (44 percent). Make no mistake - online bullying is [...]
Adverse events during childhood have a recognised association with certain psychiatric and medical illnesses. Recently, investigators studied hospitalizations for autoimmune disease in 15,357 adults. Adverse events included physical, emotional, and sexual abuse and household dysfunction, e.g., domestic violence, substance abuse, mental illness, parental divorce, and criminality. Sixty-four percent of adults with autoimmune disease reported at [...]
Almost a million Australian children are being given unfettered access to the Internet, new research released today reveals. The revelations come from Generation Next, a national parenting seminar organisation being supported by anti-depression initiative, beyondblue, and Australian Government-backed youth mental health foundation, Headspace. Their research finds 22 percent of parents of children aged 4-18 [...]
Testimony presented at the House Judiciary Committee Oversight Hearing to Examine Youth Culture and Violence on May 13, 1999 Dewey G. Cornell, Ph.D., Curry School of Education, University of Virginia Mr. Chairman, Distinguished Members, Ladies, and Gentlemen. I am Dr. Dewey Cornell, a clinical psychologist and a professor in the School of Education at the [...]
Generation Next will focus on providing essential and up to date information for parents , teachers and carers about problems relating to drugs and alcohol, cybersafety, mental health and related issues that affect young people and on constructive solutions to these problems. Presenters for the series include: Dr Michael Carr-Gregg, adolescent psychologist and media columnist, [...]
