Language disorder is highly prevalent in youth justice; however, orofacial, oromotor, speech, and voice anomalies have been largely overlooked. There has been some documentation of these among individuals with prenatal alcohol exposure (PAE), and adolescents with PAE are over-represented in youth justice. ...

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• 2021
• October 2021

The current article outlines how individuals with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder may experience inequities within the justice system ...

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• 2020
• February 2020

Parent-infant interactions provide the foundation for the development of infant socioemotional wellbeing. Preterm birth can have a substantial, and often detrimental, impact on the quality of early parent-infant interactions. Sensory processing difficulties, common in preterm infants, are further associated with poorer interaction quality. ...

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• 2022
• July 2022

Translation of developmental science discoveries is impeded by numerous barriers at different stages of the research-to-practice pipeline. Actualization of the vast potential of the developmental sciences to improve children's health and development in the real world is imperative but has not yet been fully realized. ...

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• 2022
• April 2022

Growing evidence from preclinical studies, epidemiology, and randomized controlled trials supports a causal role for diet quality in mental disorder risk, and clinical psychiatric guidelines now place diet, along with other life-style behaviors, as foundational treatment targets for mood disorders. ...

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• 2022
• February 2022

Amy Finlay-Jones AFJ BPsych(Hons), MPsych(Clinical), MHealthEcon, PhD (Clin Psych) Head, Early Neurodevelopment & Mental Health; Healthway WA Senior Research Fellow +61 8 6319 1808 amy.finlay-jones@telethonkids.org.au Head, Early Neurodevelopment & ...

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Gastrostomy is increasingly used in multiple neurological conditions associated with intellectual disability, with no apparent accessibility barriers ...

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• 2019
• March 2019

Dissociative symptoms are linked to experiences of trauma, often originating in childhood and adolescence. Dissociative disorders are associated with a high burden of illness and a poor quality of life. Despite evidence suggesting that early intervention can improve outcomes, little research exists on the treatment of dissociative disorders in childhood and adolescence. ...

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• 2024
• January 2024

Following the outbreak of COVID-19, social distancing restrictions limited access to face-to-face mental health services in Western Australia (WA), necessitating a rapid transition to non-face-to-face alternatives, including telehealth. The current study investigated barriers and facilitators to telehealth access and engagement, and preferences for child and youth mental health service delivery during and beyond COVID-19. ...

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• 2022
• June 2022

From 1990 to 2005, there was an increase in prevalence of parents with a prior history of mental health disorders in WA. ...

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• 2013
• May 2013

Rapid facial reactions to emotional stimuli are intact in late adulthood, even in response to stimuli that activate more automatic and implicit forms of emotion processing ...

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• 2018
• August 2018

This review focuses primarily on the beneficial effects for human health of exposure to ultraviolet radiation ...

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• 2019
• January 2019