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After a long and challenging two years, Year 12 students are heading into the final few months of their schooling. Those in Sydney and Melbourne have spent a significant proportion studying from home; for Melbourne’s students, in particular, this was a repeat of their Year 11 experience through the lockdowns of 2020. Year 12 [...]
Both the 2021 Victorian Royal Commission into Victoria’s Mental Health System and the 2020 federal Productivity Commission Inquiry Report highlight the impact of a parent’s mental illness on their children, and the need to break the cycle of mental illness in families. Monash University’s leadership role in addressing the issue over the past 10 years resulted [...]
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In this empowering lecture, Professor Tony Attwood discusses defining characteristics of 'Aspies' - people with Asperger's Syndrome - how these change from early childhood to adulthood & vary by gender. Lecture Transcript [00:00:00] Prof Tony Atwood: We're going to focus on Asperger's syndrome. It's a way a trendy term. And we now know that [...]
By Andrea Reupert, Kelly-Ann Allen, Emily Berger, Zoe Morris, Dianne Summers, Gerald Wurf and Fiona May School psychologists and counsellors provide a critical service supporting students with learning and emotional needs. During COVID-19 restrictions, they had to change the way they provided this service. Given that there have been seven international health crises over the [...]
By Karen Malone, Swinburne University of Technology Leaders across the country – particularly in the states with the largest outbreaks, New South Wales and Victoria – have designed road maps towards reopening the states after long lockdowns. Safety in childcare, schools and universities is a core component of reopening plans. Year 12 students in Melbourne [...]
By Luke Zaphir, The University of Queensland and Peter Ellerton, The University of Queensland Melbourne has seen days of anti-lockdown and anti-vaccination protests with hundreds of arrests made. Many protesters hold right-wing and extremist views. Police say people have been arrested for breaching the chief health officer’s directions, as well as drug-related offences and outstanding [...]
By Helen Forbes-Mewett, Associate Professor of Sociology, School of Social Sciences Australian universities are understood to have the highest number of international students per capita worldwide. Their wellbeing is paramount to the higher education sector. Despite the struggles international students face while studying in an unfamiliar environment, there’s a counter-narrative regarding the many associated positives [...]
By Dougal Sutherland, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington If you’re feeling uninspired, stagnant and joyless, you’re not alone. A sense of languishing is one of the dominant emotions of 2021 as we navigate life in an ongoing pandemic and process other terrible world events alongside. But although many people are struggling and [...]
By Will W Dobud, Charles Sturt University If you peered through the keyhole of any psychotherapy session, chances are they would all look very similar. There may be nearly 1,000 types of therapies — such as cognitive behavioural and family therapy — but you will typically find a client and practitioner in a room, sitting [...]
