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Alison Poulton, University of Sydney If your child has been diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), you might be wondering: what now? And how do I know if medication is warranted? The answer will depend on circumstances and will change over time. It’s quite OK to leave medication as a last resort — but [...]
Felicity Roux, Curtin University Health education frequently fails to teach the menstrual cycle in its full entirety, focusing mostly on the bleeding part of the story and glossing over the ovulation chapter. In other words, many girls* often only get half the story about how their bodies work. That’s a shame because knowledge of your [...]
Sarah Hetrick, University of Auckland; Joanne McKenzie, Monash University; Nick Meader, University of York, and Sally Merry, University of Auckland Even before COVID-19 lockdowns, school closures and strict social distancing, depression was on the rise in children and teenagers around the globe. By the age of 19, around 25% of adolescents are estimated to have [...]
Christopher Blyth, The University of Western Australia; Peter Richmond, The University of Western Australia, and Ushma Wadia, Telethon Kids Institute Adolescents in North America are beginning to roll up their sleeves for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine after it was approved for 12-15-year-olds this month. The Canadian drug and therapeutic regulator Health Canada approved Pfizer-BioNTech’s mRNA vaccine [...]
Dr Hossein Mokhtarzadeh, Dr Jason Forte and Professor Peter Lee Do you like to pace while you think? You are not alone if you do. Aristotle, Dickens, Beethoven and many other great thinkers often walked when they were deep in thought. Two hundred years or so later, research from Stanford University suggests that going for [...]
Associate Professor Rohan Borschmann, Dr Jess Heerde, Dr Jesse Young, Professor George Patton and Professor Stuart Kinner In 2008 Australia had a national strategic agenda to halve homelessness by 2020, with a strategy of early intervention and improved service provision to finally break the homelessness cycle. This strategic agenda has long since been discarded. Instead [...]
Dr Maria Di BiaseAs early as age 12, some young people are classified as being at high clinical risk of developing psychosis. The effects of psychosis can include mild delusions, hallucinations, and disorganised speech and the effects can impact on a person’s ability to function in everyday life. A young person is classified as high [...]
Lady time. Aunty Flo. On the rag. Period. We’re not good at talking directly about menstruation. Hidden behind our embarrassment is a cultural stigma that results in gender inequality and causes real harm to women, girls and those who menstruate when they miss school, work and recreation activities. Today, on international Menstrual Hygiene Day, we [...]
Humanity is facing huge challenges. The climate crisis is evident and begs for urgent changes in our modes of social organisation. The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed huge global inequalities, and the interdependence among human communities, other species, and the planet as a shared territory. The ethical decisions that we make in the next few years [...]
In this episode: The impact of bullying on resilience If the nature of bulling has changed, should the response change too? Practical tips for overcoming bullying How we can think more innovatively about intervening and preventing bullying Implications for the wellbeing of young people Host: Andrew Fuller, Clinical psychologist and family therapist, speaker and [...]
