This chapter describes the challenges experienced by Aboriginal people in their efforts to negotiate Australian society ...

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Embrace @ Telethon Kids Institute's Co-Directors Professor Ashleigh Lin and Professor Helen Milroy have welcomed the release of a new WA government mental health research strategy. ...

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The Brain and Behaviour research theme consists of five programs: Child Health Analytics, Development and Disability, Healthy Behaviours and Environments, Mental Health and Youth, Population Health. ...

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SPARX is a form of computerized cognitive behavioural therapy in serious game format funded via the Ministry of Health to be freely available in New Zealand. At registration users identify themselves as male, female, transgender or intersex. We aimed to establish whether adolescent transgender users of SPARX, compared to adolescent male and female users, were more likely to have high mental health needs at baseline and were more likely to complete SPARX. We also sought to determine changes in transgender adolescents' depressive symptoms after using SPARX. ...

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Glenn Pearson G BA (Education) PhD Candidate Director of First Nations Strategy and Leadership Director of First Nations Strategy and Leadership Area ...

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The Australian Government has recently funded a national Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Suicide Prevention Evaluation Project (ATSISPEP). To ...

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Although school-based delivery of online interventions can effectively prevent depression and other common mental disorders, little is known about the characteristics of students who engage with these programs. This study aimed to identify predictors of two indicators of adolescent engagement (program usage and skill enactment) with a school-based online depression prevention program. The study also explored the association between skill enactment and mental health outcomes.  ...

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Bep Shakara Yael Uink Liddelow-Hunt Perry BU SLH YP BPsych(Hons.), MAppPsy(Clinical), PhD BPhil(Hons) BPsych (Hons) MPsych (Clin) PhD Honorary ...

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The typical number of visits to health professionals by children with mental disorders during a 12-month period is relatively small ...

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Senior Research Officer ...

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