Glenn Martyn Pearson Symons G MS BA (Education) PhD Candidate B.A. (Hons) PhD. Director of First Nations Strategy and Leadership Honorary Research ...

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School attendance should therefore be a priority for all schools, and not just those with high rates of absence or low average achievement. ...

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• 2017
• March 2017

Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is characterized by instability in interpersonal relationships. To date no reviews have scoped the extant research on peer relationship functioning for young people diagnosed with BPD or showing borderline personality features. The current review provides this scoping of studies on all facets of peer relationships, including friendship quality, peer victimization and bullying and peer aggression, and relevant studies of social–cognitive processes with relevance to peer relationships. From 282 studies identified up to August 2019, 39 studies were included for review. ...

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• 2020
• October 2020

Traditional conceptualizations of aggression distinguish between reactive (e.g., rage) and proactive (e.g., reward) functions of aggression. However, critiques of this dichotomy have pointed out these models conflate motivational valence and self-control. ...

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• 2022
• March 2022

The study of moral disengagement has greatly informed research on aggression and bullying. ...

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• 2015
• January 2015

The present study aims to investigate the association between an early history of recurrent otitis media (OM) with or without ventilation tube insertion and later behavioural problems in childhood and adolescence. ...

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• 2023
• April 2023

Professors Carol Bower & Steve Zubrick have been inducted as new Fellows to the prestigious Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences. ...

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Logan Bayley Klair Bayley knew her son Logan would eventually need a wheelchair. Diagnosed with Duchenne at the age of five, Logan’s muscle strength ...

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• 2021
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The “Earthrise” photograph, taken on the 1968 Apollo 8 mission, became one of the most significant images of the 20th Century. It triggered a profound shift in environmental awareness and the potential for human unity—inspiring the first Earth Day in 1970. Taking inspiration from these events 50 years later, we initiated Project Earthrise at our 2020 annual conference of inVIVO Planetary Health. ...

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• 2021
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