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Stephanie Brown, Murdoch Children's Research Institute and Deirdre Gartland, Murdoch Children's Research Institute Childhood should be a happy and carefree time, but often it doesn’t work out that way. Children are exposed to all the stresses and strains that affect the families and communities in which they grow up. Recent research shows this can have [...]
Associate Professor Eva Alisic and Dr Mira Vasileva Details are emerging about how the pandemic has affected Australian young children – aged between 1 and 5 years – who had their education and home lives disrupted in 2020. While Australian children as a group may have fared better than those in countries with much [...]
Christine Grové, Monash University The COVID pandemic has shone a light on the ongoing decline in young people’s mental health. Psychologists have warned if we don’t start to address the mental health emergency of young people’s anxiety and depression, it may become a “trans-generational disaster”. Paediatricians have said they are seeing growing numbers of young [...]
In this episode: A holistic and integrated approach to wellbeing is strongly recommended for the future longevity of students' well-being The model for positive education emphasises learning, living, teaching, and embedding positive education so that staff can authentically integrate this into their classroom practice At Geelong Grammar School, over 60 staff members have taken [...]
Associate Professor Victoria Palmer Thinking back to life before lockdown, it can be tempting to do so through rose-tinted glasses. Some things, like travel, may have indeed been easier, but many major issues like affordable housing, secure employment, loneliness, violence and access to mental health care were in need of urgent attention before pandemic – [...]
When you have momentum, you can fly through things. When it goes missing, everything feels like an uphill slog. It is at those times that we tend to put things off until later and sometimes try to forget about them entirely. To stop procrastinating, we need to kickstart our momentum. Before doing that we need [...]
Dr Barbara Broadway , Dr Julie Moschion and Dr Susan MéndezAs Australia emerges from COVID-19, many have lost their jobs and businesses, resulting in high levels of mental distress, particularly among parents. And the distress extends across all Australia’s states and territories, not just Victoria where the lockdown was stricter and lasted longer. But in [...]
Richard Bryant, UNSW Although Australia is now largely COVID-free, the repercussions of the pandemic are ongoing. As the pandemic enters its second year, many people will be continuing to suffer with poor mental health, or facing new mental health challenges. The effects of recurrent lockdowns, fears about the effectiveness of the vaccines, restricted movement within [...]
Saul Karnovsky, Curtin University Australian universities enrol thousands of people to become teachers. Some who choose to study education are motivated by a desire to make a difference to the lives of young people, while others are looking for job security and intellectual fulfilment. A course in education encompasses a broad range of cognitive and [...]
Indigenous Australians prefer the term "social and emotional wellbeing" to "mental health". They recognise that mental health is connected to our relationships, our place in the world, with our past and with nature. Indigenous researcher Cammi Murrup-Stewart has completed a PhD thesis investigating the links between Indigenous culture and Indigenous health. “Within the Aboriginal community, concepts [...]
