Experiencing trauma can adversely impact a child's education and their lifelong social, physical and mental health. Trauma is poorly understood by those working within the education sector. Teachers play a pivotal role in recognising and helping when children display trauma-related behaviours, but risk re-traumatising children if not adequately trained. Pre-service teachers have limited exposure and experience in responding to the different needs experienced by children impacted by trauma.  ...

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Individuals with borderline personality disorder (BPD) are at a substantial risk of harm to themselves and others, experience high levels of functional impairment and typically are high users of tertiary healthcare to address their mental health concerns. As indicators for BPD typically emerge in adolescence, a day therapy service in Bentley, Western Australia, Touchstone Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS), was developed as an intensive intervention for adolescents with indicators for BPD and its associated symptomology. ...

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• April 2023

We emphasize that barriers to planetary health and the clinical application of lifestyle medicine are maintaining an unhealthy status quo ...

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• 2019
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Yael Jacinta Penelope Keely Bep Amy Helen Claire Perry Freeman Strauss Bebbington Uink Finlay-Jones Milroy McIlroy YP JF PS KB BU AFJ HM CM BPsych (Hons) MPsych (Clin) PhD BScs, MPH BA, MPH, PhD MClinPsych/PhD BPsych(Hons.), MAppPsy(Clinical), PhD ...

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Larissa Alix Penelope Marion Woolard Strauss LM AW PS BPsych(Hons) BPsych (Hons), PhD BA, MPH, PhD Research Assistant & PhD Student Senior Research Fellow Research Fellow in Youth Suicide Prevention 08 6319 1823 08 6319 1297 larissa.marion@ ...

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The formation of online communities instils a sense of connectedness which can ameliorate the mental health concerns that result from minority stressors for lesbian, gay, queer, intersex, asexual, and other diverse genders/sexualities (LGBTQIA+). The aim of this study was to explore how LGBTQIA + people communicate social and mental health concerns on TikTok. ...

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Postvention is a core component of suicide prevention strategies, internationally. However, the types of supports provided to people impacted by suicide vary widely. This study examines the perceived effectiveness of the Primary Care Navigator (PCN) model for people bereaved by suicide. The PCN model was implemented in response to a suicide cluster. ...

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Ella Alix Carton Woolard EC AW Bsc (Hons) BPsych (Hons), PhD PhD Candidate Senior Research Fellow 08 6319 1823 Ella.carton@telethonkids.org.au Alix.woolard@telethonkids.org.au PhD Candidate Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Child Mental Health she/her ...

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Amy Helen Jenny Finlay-Jones Milroy Downs AFJ HM JA BPsych(Hons), MPsych(Clinical), MHealthEcon, PhD (Clin Psych) MBBS; FRANZCP; CATCAP BApplSci (physio) MSc PhD Head, Early Neurodevelopment & Mental Health; Healthway WA Senior Research Fellow ...

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Siblings of children with intellectual disability have unique family experiences, varying by type of disability. ...

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• 2023
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Yael Penelope Keely Bep Amy Helen Perry Strauss Bebbington Uink Finlay-Jones Milroy YP PS KB BU AFJ HM BPsych (Hons) MPsych (Clin) PhD BA, MPH, PhD MClinPsych/PhD BPsych(Hons.), MAppPsy(Clinical), PhD BPsych(Hons), MPsych(Clinical), MHealthEcon, PhD ...

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According to the Young Minds Matter study, mental health disorders such as anxiety and depression are experienced by approximately one in seven or 560,000 young people in Australia. These disorders can often have a significant impact on children’s learning and development and on family life. ...

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