Generation Next Blog

Girlfriend May Review: injects some much needed reality, but doesn’t go all the way

By Dr Ramesh Manocha|2012-08-17T18:30:26+10:00May 29th, 2012|Categories: Society & Culture|Tags: generation next, Girlfriend, Magazines, Positive Psychology, wellbeing, young people, youth|

In last month’s Girlfriend Review, https://www.generationnext.com.au//2012/04/girl-mag-watch-girlfriend-magazine-april-2012/ I outlined the disturbing findings of the magazine’s annual body image survey. Our young women still despise their bodies, despite GF’s own positive body image initiatives, which I’ve argued, never really went far enough. So it was refreshing to see in May’s issue a strong case for exposing systems [...]

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Ten tips to help parents redefine their role in serving alcohol to teenagers

By Dr Ramesh Manocha|2012-08-17T18:31:23+10:00May 29th, 2012|Categories: Science & Research, Society & Culture|Tags: alcohol, generation next, Parents, Teenagers|

10 tips for parents around teen binge drinking. By Collett Smart The wrestling that occurs in the mind of a teenager when they feel the pressure of peers to drink is enormous. However, when an adult serves up alcohol at a teenage party, this communicates to teens that the adult is both condoning and [...]

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Teacher wellbeing

By Dr Ramesh Manocha|2012-08-17T18:31:37+10:00May 29th, 2012|Categories: Mental Health & Wellbeing|Tags: children, generation next, Positive Psychology, Teacher, wellbeing, young people, youth|

How often do we consider student wellbeing or welfare at school? My guess is that it would feature highly in the ethos of your school. At the very least there would be a conscious effort to ensure kids were doing “ok”, and reaching out to those considered “at risk” – whatever that risk may be. [...]

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Parents targeted in teen booze crackdown

By Dr Ramesh Manocha|2012-08-17T18:32:09+10:00May 27th, 2012|Categories: Drugs & Alcohol, Society & Culture|Tags: alcohol, Booze, generation next, Teens, wellbeing, young people, youth|

Police will be given new powers to stop parents turning a blind eye to under-age drinking, making it a criminal offence to host house parties where alcohol is consumed by under-18s. Under the plan being pushed by the O'Farrell government to make it easier for police to fight the teenage booze culture, adults would face [...]

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Self-harm

By Dr Ramesh Manocha|2012-08-17T18:32:43+10:00May 24th, 2012|Categories: Mental Health & Wellbeing|Tags: Mental Health, self harm|

Self-harm can spread like a virus through friendship networks. And now, new research shows it seems to be spreading throughout NSW. As I reveal in the Herald today, figures released on the Health Statistics NSW website* show the rate of people being hospitalised for self-harm has more than doubled in NSW over the past 10 [...]

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Education, satisfaction and living conditions rankings of OECD countries

By Dr Ramesh Manocha|2012-08-17T18:33:03+10:00May 23rd, 2012|Categories: Society & Culture|Tags: education, generation next, OECD|

There is more to life than the cold numbers of GDP and economic statistics – This Index allows you to compare well-being across countries, based on 11 topics the OECD has identified as essential, in the areas of material living conditions and quality of life. via OECD – Your Better Life Index.

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Brains melting down after Japan tsunami

By Dr Ramesh Manocha|2012-08-17T18:33:25+10:00May 23rd, 2012|Categories: Science & Research, Society & Culture|Tags: Japan, radiation, tsunami|

EMOTIONAL stress caused by last year's tsunami resulted in part of some survivors' brains shrinking, according to scientists in Japan who grasped a unique chance to study the neurological effects of trauma. On a quest to better understand post-traumatic stress disorder, the researchers compared brain scans they had taken of 42 healthy adolescents in other [...]

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NAPLAN neurosis

By Dr Ramesh Manocha|2012-08-17T18:33:49+10:00May 22nd, 2012|Categories: Science & Research, Society & Culture|Tags: children, generation next, Mental Health, NAPLAN|

When the National Assessment Program - Literacy and Numeracy or NAPLAN was introduced in 2008 I thought it was about addressing this inequality. So, when my child sat the test I joked that we should have given the kids chocolate for breakfast so they did badly and the school would get more money. Some mothers [...]

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Tips on how to say ‘no’ to the pressure of taking drugs

By Helen Splarn|2012-08-17T19:27:47+10:00May 21st, 2012|Categories: Drugs & Alcohol|Tags: adolescent health, drugs, Mental Health, paul dillon|

Paul Dillon, author of Teenagers, Alcohol and Drugs and Generation Next speaker says “There are so many questions that need answers, but how do parents start talking to their kids about alcohol and drugs? Asking Are you taking drugs?' won't do it, that approach won't give teenagers the information they desperately need to keep themselves [...]

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