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The film packs a powerful punch for insights into youth culture and media/marketing’s implicit role in the need to create healthier messaging and a brighter worldview for kids. We MUST use the power of media for positive change…for with power comes profound responsibility. This has been serialised on youtube see also Shaping Youth » Start the [...]
I wonder how often schools focus on achievement at the expense of wellbeing? Dr Martin Seligman is regarded as the founder of Positive Psychology, and he coined the term "flourishing" to describe someone who has optimized their levels of wellbeing. They experience positive emotions, enjoy healthy relationships and have high levels of engagement, meaning and [...]
People now feel more time pressured than ever before. And while our GDP might be up, our standard of wellbeing may be at risk. In Australia, Professor Barbara Pocock is at the forefront of research on work's shifting landscape and its impact on our lives. via Work rest and play in Australia today - Saturday [...]
Dr. Karen Kochel, an assistant research professor at Arizona State University’s School of Social and Family Dynamics, performed a longitudinal study examining rates of bullying and depression in children grades 4 through 6. In the study, children were monitored by parents and teachers for behavioral indicators of depression. Parents and teachers were also keeping track [...]
Could the behaviour these pageant mums are modelling be setting their children up for a lifetime of eating disorders and body issues? source: essential kids
Researchers studied emotional and related physiological changes while using facebook and concluded that many users experienced "Flow" during a facebook session. Flow is regarded as "an optimal experience" that people appreciate and seek out. The researchers concluded that the successful spread of social networking sites like Facebook might be linked to the positive emotional states associated with [...]
Antidepressant drugs such as Prozac do not raise suicide risk in young people, a new study says. In 2004, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ordered a “black box warning” for Prozac (generic name fluoxetine) after data from 25 clinical trials suggested the medications increased the risk of suicidal thoughts and behaviors in children and [...]
The proportion of the population aged 14 years or older who consumed alcohol daily declined between 2007 8.1% and 2010 7.2%. However, there was little change in the proportion of people drinking alcohol at levels that put them at risk of harm over their lifetime 20.3% in 2007 and 20.1% in 2010, or from a [...]
Over the past few weeks many of us have watched with concern a snowballing campaign of vilification against Melinda Tankard Reist, her public work as an advocate for women and girls and for society as a whole. Much of this has occurred online using all manner of cyber harrassment perpetrated by trolls and pseudo-experts. Their gutless cyber threats [...]
The Joint Select Committee on Cyber-Safety tabled its report on the Inquiry into Cyber-Safety entitled High-Wire Act: Cyber-Safety and the Young via Joint Select Committee on Cyber-Safety - Report.
