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Review confirms Violent Video Games increase aggressive behaviour

By Dr Ramesh Manocha|2012-08-17T17:13:36+10:00March 18th, 2010|Categories: Society & Culture, Uncategorized|Tags: adolescent, australian, bullying, cyberbullying, education, game consoles, generation next, parenting, teenager, violence, violent video games, youth|

A recent review “Violent Video Game Effects on Aggression, Empathy, and Pro-social Behaviour in Eastern and Western Countries: A Meta-Analytic Review”, published by the American Psychological Association has used meta-analytic procedures to test the effects of violent video games on: Aggressive behaviour Aggressive cognition Aggressive affect Physiological arousal Empathy/desensitisation, and Pro-social behaviour. Today more than [...]

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Silent child abuse epidemic growing in NSW

By Dr Ramesh Manocha|2010-03-16T06:00:37+11:00March 16th, 2010|Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: Child Abuse, children, generation next, parenting, teenager, violence|

Cold hard facts about perpetrators 23% are known to the child 15% are the natural father of the child 12% are either the stepfather or de facto of the child 1,831 charges of child abuse were laid in 2009, and 451 arrests following reported sex crimes in 2009* A silent epidemic is destroying the childhood [...]

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WA sees dramatic increase in births by teenage girls

By Dr Ramesh Manocha|2010-03-15T06:00:04+11:00March 15th, 2010|Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: adolescent, adolescent health, children, education, Info for your children, parenting, teenager, youth|

73 girls aged 15 years old or under became mothers 11 babies were born to 14 year old girls, and 57 babies were born to 15 year old girls. There has been a significant jump in the number of teenage girls giving birth in Western Australia. The WA Birth Registry shows five girls aged just [...]

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Long distance relationships – children are suffering

By Dr Ramesh Manocha|2010-03-12T06:00:35+11:00March 12th, 2010|Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: adolescent, children, education, generation next, parenting, teenager, youth|

Online dating agencies and ever increasing communication through emails, both for business and pleasure, across the world is seeing a rise in long distance relationships. It is also creating a new phenomenon in the Family Court system. The number of divorced parents wanting to relocate interstate or overseas to begin a new life is meaning [...]

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Young women out drink the men

By Dr Ramesh Manocha|2012-08-17T19:17:23+10:00March 11th, 2010|Categories: Drugs & Alcohol, Society & Culture|Tags: adolescent, adolescent health, alcohol, paul dillon, peer pressure, teen, teenager, youth|

80% of alcohol related injuries are serious 10% of injuries are carried out intentionally 7% of injuries are caused by another person* *The Alcohol Education and Rehabilitation Foundation The Alcohol Education and Rehabilitation Foundation (AER). AER is a not-for-profit company established in 2001 with a mandate to change the way we drink. Originally established [...]

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Important new review "Sexualisation of Young People"

By Dr Ramesh Manocha|2012-08-17T19:17:32+10:00March 8th, 2010|Categories: Society & Culture|Tags: adolescent, children, government initiatives, parenting, pornography, research, sexualisation, sexualization, teen, teenager, violence, youth|

A recent review commissioned by the Home Secretary and published in the UK by Dr Linda Papadopoulos, “Sexualisation of Young People” has put the spotlight on the sexualisation of children and teenagers within our society. It has brought to light growing trends that are both alarming and insidious. The continued de-sensitisation to the sexualisation of [...]

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Cannabis use in teenagers is linked to psychosis

By Dr Ramesh Manocha|2012-08-17T19:17:41+10:00March 5th, 2010|Categories: Drugs & Alcohol|Tags: adolescent, adolescent health, children, drugs, drugs and alcohol, generation next, Mental Health, paul dillon, ramesh manocha, teenager, youth|

Teenagers who use cannabis in their early teens are more likely to experience hallucinations or delusions. This is the findings of a new study conducted by John McGrath, M.D., Ph.D., F.R.A.N.Z.C.P., of the Queensland Brain Institute (QBI), University of Queensland, Australia. Due to be published in May in the Archives of General Psychiatry, a medical [...]

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Cutting – a symptom or a mental health issue?

By Dr Ramesh Manocha|2012-08-17T19:17:54+10:00March 4th, 2010|Categories: Mental Health & Wellbeing, Society & Culture|Tags: adolescent, adolescent health, anxiety, children, Depression, generation next, health, Mental Health, parenting, teen, teenager, youth|

The term ‘cutting’ refers to the widespread practice of cutting yourself with a sharp object with the purpose of injuring and scaring the skin. Although it is not much talked about in the media, this form of self harm has a growing following within the teenage population, especially girls. It is also alarming that tweens are beginning [...]

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Helping a Teenager with their diet and lifestyle choices

By Dr Ramesh Manocha|2012-08-17T19:18:07+10:00March 2nd, 2010|Categories: Mental Health & Wellbeing, Society & Culture|Tags: adolescent, adolescent health, children, education, generation next, Info for your children, parenting, teen, teenager, youth|

It is crucial that adolescents receive the required nutrients while growing and developing. However it is also just as important to take action if a teenager is above a normal healthy weight. It is sometimes difficult to find a balance when there is so much in the media about diets and body image; when all [...]

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Violence in school yards on the increase

By Dr Ramesh Manocha|2012-08-17T19:18:15+10:00March 1st, 2010|Categories: Society & Culture|Tags: adolescent, bullying, children, education, generation next, parenting, ramesh manocha, teenager, violence, youth|

Violence in the school yard is becoming more prolific with the incidents becoming more serious and increasingly involving weapons of some kind. New figures from the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research showed an 8% increase in assaults occurring at schools during 2009, compared to 2008. During 2009 134 of the general assaults occurring [...]

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March 2010