A team of researchers passionate about the social and emotional wellbeing of children have been refining a survey questionnaire. ...

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Each day of school missed makes a difference, with the effect on learning accumulating over time. From an early age, if children are taught that they need to 'show up' for school and make a commitment, this positive mentality aids academic and career success and brings benefits in adulthood. ...

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Two Telethon Kids Institute researchers behind a new book featuring the voices of Kids with DCD. ...

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• 2019
• September

Overweight and obese children reported greater psychosocial distress than healthy weight children, and these differences were more pronounced for girls than boys. ...

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• 2017
• July 2017

Australia’s first comprehensive research centre focused on mental health from birth to 25 years has been launched today in Perth. ...

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In 2005, the Telethon Kids Institute won a National Health & Medical Research Council Indigenous Capacity Building Grant. ...

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Hayley Alana Christian Papageorgiou HC AP BSc (1st Class Hons), PhD W.Aust. BHSc Program Head, Healthy Behaviours and Environments; National Heart ...

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In December 2016, a panel of experts was convened by the International Scientific Association for Probiotics an Prebiotics to review the scope of prebiotic. ...

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• August 2017

Not all children or teenagers identify with the gender they were assigned at birth. As a result, some may choose to change their name, their clothes or their body. With considerably higher rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm and attempted suicide, the need for specialist mental health services has been recognised. ...

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Our cyber safety research The online opportunties The online challenges A trusted messenger Social Media The Health Promotion and Education Research ...

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