Mental health and well-being during childhood and adolescence have been shown to impact on health, educational attainment and employment in adulthood.1–3 Although health and education systems worldwide have long recognized the importance of promoting student well-being,4–6 population-wide monitoring of well-being remains uncommon. ...

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• 2021
• June 2021

Monique Robinson MR PhD MPsych (Clin) MAPS NHMRC Early Career Fellow 08 6319 1406 monique.robinson@telethonkids.org.au NHMRC Early Career Fellow she/her/hers Dr Monique Robinson completed PhD and MPsych (Clinical) degrees at The University of ...

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• 2011
• January 2011

Understanding variations in risk profiles among persistently non-attending children will inform the development of absence interventions. ...

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• 2018
• February 2018

Are you an LGBTQIA+ young adult aged 18-25? We would like you to help us evaluate a group mindful self-compassion program for LGBTQIA+ young adults to determine how helpful it is for your mental health and wellbeing.   What is mindful ...

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Substance use, depression and low school motivation impacted on discrepancy in externalizing behaviour scores for 14-year-old male adolescents and their parents ...

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• 2019
• June 2019

Parental assistance with children's emotion regulation (ER) is a form of emotion socialization behavior that has recently been operationalized with the development of the Parent Assistance with Child Emotion Regulation (PACER) questionnaire. ...

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• 2022
• October 2022

Positive maternal mental health during the perinatal period contributes to general well-being and positive emotional bonds with the child, encouraging an optimal developmental trajectory. Online interventions to enhance maternal well-being and develop coping skills, such as meditation-based interventions, can be a low-cost way to improve mother and child outcomes. ...

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• 2023
• January 2023

Steve Sarah Zubrick Johnson SR SJ FASSA, FAAMHS, MSc AM PhD BA, PostGradDip; PhD Honorary Emeritus Research Fellow Senior Research Fellow 08 6319 1409 Stephen.zubrick@telethonkids.org.au Sarah.Johnson@telethonkids.org.au Honorary Emeritus Research ...

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Unmet language and literacy needs are common among young people who are involved with youth justice systems. However, there is limited research regarding the functional text-level language skills of this population with regard to narrative macrostructure (story grammar) and microstructure (semantics and syntax) elements. In this study, we examined macrostructure and microstructure elements in the oral and written narrative texts of 24 adolescent students of a youth detention centre. The students, who were aged 14- to 17- years, were all speakers of Standard Australian English, and 11 (46%) students met criteria for language disorder (LD). ...

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• 2021
• February 2021

To examine and synthesise recent evidence on the role of grandparents in shaping children's dietary health. ...

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• 2023
• Jun 2023

Alcohol-related harm is a public health issue in Australia, and young people are the most likely group to consume alcohol at levels of high risk and be admitted to hospital for alcohol-related harm. This project aims to inform harm prevention and ...

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The prevention of suicide and suicide-related behaviour are key policy priorities in Australia and internationally. The World Health Organization has recommended that member states develop self-harm surveillance systems as part of their suicide prevention efforts. This is also a priority under Australia's Fifth National Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Plan. The aim of this paper is to describe the development of a state-based self-harm monitoring system in Victoria, Australia. In this system, data on all self-harm presentations are collected from eight hospital emergency departments in Victoria. A natural language processing classifier that uses machine learning to identify episodes of self-harm is currently being developed. ...

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• 2020
• December 2020