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August 2015

Formal After-Parties – The Online Fallout
Formal After-Parties – The Online Fallout

Drugs & Alcohol, Society & Culture

Formal After-Parties – The Online Fallout

By Shridevi|2020-10-30T17:21:02+11:00August 2nd, 2015|Categories: Drugs & Alcohol, Society & Culture|Tags: After-parties, alcohol, Formals, Parents, photographer, schools, sexual behaviour, Social Media, students, teachers, technology, videographer|

I’m regularly asked about my views and concerns of school formal after-parties, particularly those where every aspect of the after-party is outsourced to a private company. I want to share with you an emerging concern for some of these parties that is particularly of interest to schools, parents and teachers. In some cases, a private company contracts a photographer and videographer as part of the after-party package. The video footage and photos are then uploaded on the company’s social [...]

Explainer: What is Epigenetics?

By Dr Ramesh Manocha|2015-08-03T09:00:51+10:00August 2nd, 2015|Categories: Science & Research|Tags: biology, cell division, cellular memory, Epigenetics, genes, organisms|

Epigenetics is about turning genes on or off. It’s also about doing this stably; a leopard doesn’t change its spots even if it sheds its fur each year. So epigenetics is about stable cellular memory that persists after cell division and, in some cases, even through sexual reproduction. Epigenetics, then, concerns the mechanisms that make [...]

6 Ways to Save Your Brain

By Dr Ramesh Manocha|2015-08-02T22:12:17+10:00August 2nd, 2015|Categories: Mental Health & Wellbeing, Science & Research, Society & Culture|Tags: brain function, eating habits, education, gadgets, life style, nutrition|

According to experts, everything from our gadgets to our eating habits and ultimately modern life itself are eroding our brains, chipping away at neural pathways and making us slower, denser and less capable of original thought. Most recently, a study by the University of Montreal, published this month, found that eating large quantities of saturated [...]

Fifty Percent of Teens Sext by Mobile Phone

By Dr Ramesh Manocha|2015-08-02T21:57:43+10:00August 2nd, 2015|Categories: Cybersafety, Society & Culture|Tags: criminology, mobile phones, sexting, sexual images, technology, Teenagers|

One in two teenage boys and girls have used a mobile phone to send a sexually explicit image of themselves, according to the biggest sexting survey undertaken in Australia.Teenage girls are using their mobiles to send sexual images of themselves because they think it's fun and sexy, rather than because they feel pressured by boys, the new research from [...]

De-Transitioning

By Dr Ramesh Manocha|2015-08-03T15:21:26+10:00August 2nd, 2015|Categories: Mental Health & Wellbeing, Society & Culture|Tags: children, detransitioning, gender, Gender identity, psychology, transgender|

Known as detransitioning, the practice of switching from, in her case, female to male gender – and then back again – is profoundly under-researched but, say some observers, less rare than many believe. - Daisy Dumas Source: The in-betweeners

Parents Inclined to Misjudge Child Happiness Based on Personal Feelings

By Dr Ramesh Manocha|2015-08-02T21:35:07+10:00August 2nd, 2015|Categories: Mental Health & Wellbeing|Tags: children, emotions, Happiness, Mental Health, parenting, psychology|

Parents' estimations of their children's happiness differ significantly from the child's own assessment of their feelings, a study has shown. Research by psychologists at Plymouth University showed parents of 10 and 11-year-olds consistently overestimated their child's happiness, while those with 15 and 16-year-olds were inclined to underestimate. - University of Plymouth Source: Parents inclined to [...]

July 2015

Obesity and Body Image by Prof Susan Sawyer

By Imogen|2015-08-02T22:59:51+10:00July 29th, 2015|Categories: Mental Health & Wellbeing, Video|Tags: body image, counsellors, obesity, psychology, social workers, societal pressure, teachers, young people|

Professor Susan Sawyer spoke at the 2015 Melbourne Mental Health and Wellbeing of Young People seminar. Her presentation on Obesity and Body Image was acclaimed by hundreds of teachers, counsellors and social workers who attended the seminar. Her talk was recorded and can be viewed below.

3 Ways to Help Hope Grow in Teens

By Shridevi|2015-07-27T08:35:46+10:00July 27th, 2015|Categories: Mental Health & Wellbeing, Society & Culture|Tags: children, Happiness, hope, Optimism, parenting, Resilience, Teenagers|

Think of two teenagers you have regular contact with: one who is resilient and happy, and one who is struggling and languishing. Imagine you are interviewing each of them, and you ask them to respond to each of these six questionnaire items: 1. I think I am doing pretty well 2. I can think of [...]

Young People and the Medical Marijuana Debate

By Shridevi|2015-08-21T09:18:01+10:00July 27th, 2015|Categories: Drugs & Alcohol, Mental Health & Wellbeing|Tags: cancer patients, cannabis, Medical Marijuana, medical treatment, young people|

The debate about the use of marijuana for medical treatment has developed considerably over the past 12 months and has been highly publicised in the media. I recently presented one of our Party Safe Education seminars in a school where students had just completed a debate about the legalisation of marijuana. When presenting the information [...]

Teaching Kids How to be Sad

By Shridevi|2015-07-27T14:31:56+10:00July 27th, 2015|Categories: Mental Health & Wellbeing|Tags: anxiety, depession, emotions, feelings, medications, mental illnesses, Resilience, society, Teenagers|

Helping the next generation live with feelings, not pathologise them. Young people in our society are increasingly worried and upset – not about any aspect of their life in particular - but about being worried and upset. This is a relatively new phenomenon. In the 1980s, surveys of teens showed they were worried about school, [...]

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