Many schools and other organisations will go through the experience of having one of their young people attempt or complete a suicide. All people can help young people experiencing suicidal thoughts by providing emotional and practical support. Here's a useful website that offers practical advice about warning signs, intervention strategies, triggers, myths and facts. http://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/bhcv2/bhcarticles.nsf/pages/Youth_suicide_prevention_the_warning_signs [...]
November 2011
2012 Seminars: Mental Health & Wellbeing Seminars
Generation Next is hosting a series of Mental Health & Wellbeing Seminars around Australia during 2012. Generation Next brings together Australia’s Leading Experts on Children & Teenagers in one Event to give education and health professionals a seminar series and supporting resources aimed at protecting and enhancing the wellbeing of our children and teenagers.
Bryon Widner's Face Removed Of Tattoos | Before And After Pictures
Great story about reform of a skinhead. Many young people, especially males, are drawn to extremist ideas and gangs. We need to educate them about the reality of these organisations and provide more constructive options.Here's a real life story about a leading skinhead gang member who came to his senses..... Bryon Widner's Face Removed Of [...]
October 2011
Meditation for improving the life of young people
Currently Dr Ramesh and his team are involved in developing meditation programs for school-age children, which are already generating impressive outcomes with both teachers and students noticing the remarkable benefits. Year three children who were given 10 minutes of meditation a day enjoyed the activity and their teacher noted they were more calm and focussed. [...]
Modern Life and Mental Health-Free Lecture in Sydney
Here's a free lecture at Sydney Uni. Special Guest Lecturer: Gregor Henderson, independent adviser in mental health and wellbeing, Scotland, UK. This lecture explores what emerging public health policy, with its focus on wellbeing and social action, may have to offer our individual and collective responses to mental illness and mental health and to creating [...]
Study: Youths who self-harm will seek help online
Only 10% of young people who self-harm will present for hospital treatment*. Psychmined is a UK website set up for people who work in psychology, psychiatry and mental health. It recently conducted a study of Sharp Talk, which is an online discussion group that has been set up in the UK to support young people [...]
"Erotica" as a new publishing trend
Melinda Tankard Reist just pointed this book review out to me and asked for a comment No taboos in Krissy Kneen's artistic threesome | The Australian. So here it is: The "erotica" section in bookstores and publishers is a growing trend designed to accommodate a new genre of sophisticated pornography. The paperback format gives it a semblence [...]
Steve Jobs: Fox News 'A Destructive Force In Our Society'
Steve Jobs biography has revealed some of fascinating insights into modern culture. Jobs' assessment that the zeitgeist has shifted away from conventional political thinking to a more profound level of meaning is summed up in his assessment of Rupert Murdoch's influence on our culture. It also reminds me that it was Murdoch's media-business strategy that pioneered the [...]
BBC News – IQ 'can change in teenage years'
BBC News - IQ 'can change in teenage years'. Hi, fascinating article that explains a lot about teenagers and provides some scientific basis for not being too quick to judge our young people: "We have a tendency to assess children and determine the course of their education relatively early in life. "But here we have [...]
Aggressive reality: man loses online game and track down opponent and throttled him in real life
In the UK defeat during a real-time online internet combat game has taken on a brutal reality with the defeated opponent tracking down his adversary in real life and attacking him in his own home.