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Em Bould, Senior Research Fellow, Occupational Therapy There’s no doubt loneliness and social isolation are a problem for many people. A 2017 Relationships Australia survey found more than one-third (34%) often felt isolated, and a further 43% felt isolated some of the time. There’s also little doubt that most of us enjoy the companionship of [...]
Joanne Orlando, Western Sydney University Has your child’s screentime increased since COVID? If you were to estimate by how much would you say 20%, 30% or even a 50% increase? A newly released review comparing children’s screentime before and during COVID, shows children’s screentime spiked by a whopping 52% between 2020 and 2022. Increases were [...]
Janneke Blijlevens, RMIT University It’s been a long day. Your partner messages you: “let’s just order in, I don’t feel like cooking”. With a sense of relief, you open your usual takeaway app and start scrolling through the many restaurants and dishes available. Thai, pizza, burgers, Korean, Lebanese… oooh this one has free delivery! Hmm, [...]
Faith Gordon, Australian National University Prison is no place for a child. Putting children in youth justice facilities can have long-lasting consequences for their physical, psychological and emotional health, wellbeing and development. Prison can aggravate existing health conditions and result in new ones, such as depression, suicidal thoughts, and post-traumatic stress disorder. We heard this [...]
Ana Leite, Durham University; Damien Ridge, University of Westminster, and Nisreen Alwan, University of Southampton Imagine you’re young, healthy and active. Then, one day, the rug is pulled out from under you. You initially have symptoms akin to a cold, so you take a lateral flow test, which shows you have COVID. But it’s nothing [...]
Joseph A Carpini, The University of Western Australia; Deena Ashoorian, The University of Western Australia, and Rhonda Clifford, The University of Western Australia Chances are you live within 2.5 kilometres of a community pharmacy and visit one about every three weeks. You don’t need an appointment. The wait time is usually short. These factors make [...]
Josephine Barbaro, La Trobe University and Marie Camin, La Trobe University With better awareness and acceptance, approximately one out of every 50 children is receiving an autism diagnosis. More and more families are deciding when to share this information with their child. Some parents worry that doing so will “label” their child, or make [...]
Join Andrew Fuller as he chats with guest John Hendry OAM on understanding attachment as it relates to teenagers The cognitive and emotional effects of attachment Whether teenager life inevitably disrupts family attachments How we can re-secure less-attached teenagers Identity formation and attachment Listen now below: Host: Andrew Fuller, Clinical Psychologist and Family Therapist, [...]
Sanné Mestrom, University of Sydney Imagine this: a heap of colourful plastic buckets stacked on top of each other to form a climbable bridge, monolithic bluestone boulders holding up a contorted slide, a pile of concrete demolition debris moonlighting as a resting spot. At every point, children can be seen swinging their bodies from warped, [...]
Izzy Zhu-Maguire, Master of International Relations student, Monash University Young people are beginning to lose hope. We’re living in the climate crisis we thought we wouldn’t yet have to face. I have faith that many young people won’t stop fighting for climate action, but I have a fear that many others are beginning to feel [...]
