Generation Next Blog

May 2016

Supporting Children And Young People Through Parental Separation And Divorce

By |2016-05-08T20:32:03+10:00May 8th, 2016|Categories: Mental Health & Wellbeing|Tags: , , , , , , |

Getty Images In Australia nearly one in two marriages end in separation and divorce. This directly impacts many children in our schools and adults in our workplaces, parishes and social networks, and quite possibly our own family too. Coping with the family changes that result can be challenging for children and their parents, [...]

How Parents Can Help Students In The Senior Years Of School

By |2016-05-08T20:50:02+10:00May 8th, 2016|Categories: Mental Health & Wellbeing, Society & Culture|Tags: , , , , , , |

Shutterstock When you have a student completing the senior years of school, everyone in the family is doing Year 11 or 12. Here are a few ideas for coming through these years flourishing, and having everyone’s dignity intact. Parents have a vital role in helping students: Manage time Manage energy Manage stress Manage to get [...]

Can Family Dinners Protect Kids From Cyberbullying?

By |2016-05-08T18:55:19+10:00May 8th, 2016|Categories: Cybersafety, Society & Culture|Tags: , , , , , , |

Family dinners important in more ways than one. Photo: Getty The threat of cyberbullying is a very twenty-first century problem. Unlike ‘traditional’ playground bullying, cyberbullying is a relatively new phenomenon, and one that few parents have had personal experience of. It is therefore a threat that parents feel they have little control over. [...]

Seeing The Benefits Of Failure Shapes Kids’ Beliefs About Intelligence

By |2016-05-08T18:32:48+10:00May 8th, 2016|Categories: Mental Health & Wellbeing, Science & Research|Tags: , , , , , |

iStockphoto Parents' beliefs about whether failure is a good or a bad thing guide how their children think about their own intelligence, according to new research from Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. The research indicates that it's parents' responses to failure, and not their beliefs about intelligence, that are [...]

4 Anti-vaccination Arguments And How To Respond To Them

By |2016-05-09T13:11:19+10:00May 8th, 2016|Categories: Science & Research, Society & Culture|Tags: , , , , , |

Getty Images Vaccination is a hot button issue, and it has been for nearly two decades. According to anti-vaxxers, many of the immunizations children receive are risky, they are dangerous, and they are downright unsafe, but pro-vaxxers believe the opposite. Immunizations are helpful and imperative. Vaccinations save lives. But which belief is correct? [...]

I’m A Man And I Have An Eating Disorder. That’s Not A Contradiction

By |2016-05-08T18:14:31+10:00May 8th, 2016|Categories: Mental Health & Wellbeing, Society & Culture|Tags: , , , , , |

‘It all came flooding back when I read Wentworth Miller’s post on being body-shamed by a meme making fun of his weight.’ Photograph: Mitch Jenkins/five I don’t remember the first time I purged. I remember it being a habit, a nightly ritual. I remember the pattern of the bathroom tiles in my parents’ [...]

Quarter Of Viewers With Mental Health Problems Seek Help After Watching Mental Health Storylines On TV

By |2016-05-08T18:04:35+10:00May 8th, 2016|Categories: Society & Culture, Technology|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

Maisie Williams struggled with mental health problems as Casey in Cyberbully. Credit: Channel 4 A quarter of TV viewers suffering from mental health problems have been prompted to seek help after following mental health storylines, according to a new poll by mental health charity Mind. The survey asked over 2,000 British adults how [...]

 OxyContin Addiction

By |2016-05-09T13:27:14+10:00May 6th, 2016|Categories: Drugs & Alcohol|Tags: , , , , , |

Stock Images OxyContin’s stunning success masked a fundamental problem: The drug wears off hours early in many people, a Los Angeles Times investigation found. OxyContin is a chemical cousin of heroin, and when it doesn’t last, patients can experience excruciating symptoms of withdrawal, including an intense craving for the drug. The problem offers [...]

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