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Happiness class is helping clinically depressed school teachers become emotionally healthy − with a cheery assist from Aristotle
Happiness class is helping clinically depressed school teachers become emotionally healthy − with a cheery assist from Aristotle

Education, Mental Health & Wellbeing

Happiness class is helping clinically depressed school teachers become emotionally healthy − with a cheery assist from Aristotle

John Sommers-Flanagan, University of Montana Uncommon Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation U.S. highlighting unconventional approaches to teaching. Title of Course Evidence-Based Happiness for Teachers What prompted the idea for the course? I was discouraged. For nearly three decades, as a clinical psychologist, I trained mental health professionals on suicide assessment. The work [...]

By Generation Next|2024-11-13T16:27:29+11:00November 11th, 2024|Categories: Education, Mental Health & Wellbeing|Tags: Article|0 Comments

How to recognise burnout – and what to do if you’re affected
How to recognise burnout – and what to do if you’re affected

Mental Health & Wellbeing

How to recognise burnout – and what to do if you’re affected

Michael Koch, Brunel University of London and Sarah Park, University of Leicester Emily, a finance manager, has been working 60-hour weeks for several months to meet deadlines. She starts feeling constantly exhausted, both physically and mentally. Work that she once found engaging now seems overwhelming, and she’s easily irritated with her colleagues. Despite putting [...]

By Generation Next|2024-11-06T16:16:54+11:00November 6th, 2024|Categories: Mental Health & Wellbeing|Tags: Article|0 Comments

I think my child is having panic attacks. What should we do?
I think my child is having panic attacks. What should we do?

Mental Health & Wellbeing

I think my child is having panic attacks. What should we do?

Gemma Sicouri, UNSW Sydney; Annabel Songco, UNSW Sydney; Chloe Lim, UNSW Sydney, and Jennie Hudson, UNSW Sydney In the movie Inside Out 2, 13-year-old Riley, who has recently started puberty, has a panic attack during a hockey game timeout. Anxiety (the emotion responsible for the panic attack) becomes completely frenzied and there is a [...]

By Generation Next|2024-10-01T10:20:06+10:00October 1st, 2024|Categories: Mental Health & Wellbeing|Tags: Article|0 Comments

Feeding young kids on a budget? Parents say the mental load is crushing
Feeding young kids on a budget? Parents say the mental load is crushing

Diet & Nutrition, Mental Health & Wellbeing

Feeding young kids on a budget? Parents say the mental load is crushing

Kimberley Baxter, Queensland University of Technology and Rebecca Byrne, Queensland University of Technology Feeding babies and toddlers can be challenging at the best of times. But when families can’t afford enough food, let alone the recommended range of different coloured vegetables, or iron-rich meats, it’s tougher still. In our recently published research, parents told us [...]

By Generation Next|2024-10-30T18:20:46+11:00October 1st, 2024|Categories: Diet & Nutrition, Mental Health & Wellbeing|Tags: Article|0 Comments

‘Noisy’ autistic brains seem better at certain tasks. Here’s why neuroaffirmative research matters
‘Noisy’ autistic brains seem better at certain tasks. Here’s why neuroaffirmative research matters

Disability, Mental Health & Wellbeing

‘Noisy’ autistic brains seem better at certain tasks. Here’s why neuroaffirmative research matters

Pratik Raul, University of Canberra; Jeroen van Boxtel, University of Canberra, and Jovana Acevska, University of Canberra Autism is a neurodevelopmental difference associated with specific experiences and characteristics. For decades, autism research has focused on behavioural, cognitive, social and communication difficulties. These studies highlighted how autistic people face issues with everyday tasks that allistic [...]

By Generation Next|2024-08-20T11:47:59+10:00August 20th, 2024|Categories: Disability, Mental Health & Wellbeing|Tags: Article|0 Comments

What can you do if you think your teen already has unhealthy social media habits?
What can you do if you think your teen already has unhealthy social media habits?

Cybersafety, Mental Health & Wellbeing

What can you do if you think your teen already has unhealthy social media habits?

Carmel Taddeo, University of South Australia and Barbara Spears, University of South Australia Many parents are worried about how much their children use social media and what content they might encounter while using it. Amid proposals to ban teenagers under 16yrs from social media and calls to better educate them about being safe online, how [...]

By Generation Next|2024-08-19T14:43:46+10:00August 6th, 2024|Categories: Cybersafety, Mental Health & Wellbeing|Tags: Article|0 Comments

Australia’s young people are getting lonelier
Australia’s young people are getting lonelier

Mental Health & Wellbeing

Australia’s young people are getting lonelier

If you ask most people who they think is most likely to experience loneliness, they will probably describe someone in their later years – perhaps a widowed pensioner or an elderly person with health issues who lives alone. Twenty years or so ago, this was pretty much the case. Between 2001 and 2009, the [...]

By Generation Next|2024-08-19T14:43:00+10:00July 29th, 2024|Categories: Mental Health & Wellbeing|Tags: Article|0 Comments

How parents can increase motivation and confidence in children: Part 1
How parents can increase motivation and confidence in children: Part 1

Mental Health & Wellbeing, Positive Psychology

How parents can increase motivation and confidence in children: Part 1

Download article as a PDF Motivation is a slippery customer. Just when you want to rely on it, it puts its feet up, takes a few days off & generally wants to be about as active as a sloth on long service leave. Your ‘get up & go’ has ‘got up & gone’. A Brief [...]

By Generation Next|2024-08-19T14:41:51+10:00July 8th, 2024|Categories: Mental Health & Wellbeing, Positive Psychology|Tags: Article|0 Comments

How much stress is too much? A psychiatrist explains the links between toxic stress and poor health − and how to get help
How much stress is too much? A psychiatrist explains the links between toxic stress and poor health − and how to get help

Mental Health & Wellbeing, Resilience

How much stress is too much? A psychiatrist explains the links between toxic stress and poor health − and how to get help

Lawson R. Wulsin, University of Cincinnati COVID-19 taught most people that the line between tolerable and toxic stress – defined as persistent demands that lead to disease – varies widely. But some people will age faster and die younger from toxic stressors than others. So how much stress is too much, and what can you [...]

By Generation Next|2024-05-22T15:29:43+10:00May 22nd, 2024|Categories: Mental Health & Wellbeing, Resilience|Tags: Article|0 Comments

Stuck in fight-or-flight mode? 5 ways to complete the ‘stress cycle’ and avoid burnout or depression
Stuck in fight-or-flight mode? 5 ways to complete the ‘stress cycle’ and avoid burnout or depression

Mental Health & Wellbeing, Mental Illness

Stuck in fight-or-flight mode? 5 ways to complete the ‘stress cycle’ and avoid burnout or depression

Theresa Larkin, University of Wollongong and Susan J. Thomas, University of Wollongong Can you remember a time when you felt stressed leading up to a big life event and then afterwards felt like a weight had been lifted? This process – the ramping up of the stress response and then feeling this settle back down [...]

By Generation Next|2024-05-21T17:14:04+10:00May 21st, 2024|Categories: Mental Health & Wellbeing, Mental Illness|Tags: Article|0 Comments