Women who are physically active in the postnatal period report better mental well-being than those who are less active, but the pandemic has made exercise less accessible.
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Research shows climate change is already affecting the healthy psychological development of children worldwide. Children’s mental health risks will only accelerate as climate change advances.
As we push for a real solution — an increase in housing supply and related supports — the encampment evictions must stop. We need to make encampments unnecessary.
Tipping the scales away from work may not be the wisest way to recalibrate your work-life balance.
Colleges and universities are using therapy dogs as a low-cost way to improve their students’ mental health.
What are the best recommendations that would help mitigate the risk of COVID-19 transmission in sport and recreation facilities?
Almost all the people in the study were experiencing feelings like anxiety, worry, anger, boredom or frustration.
Ample research demonstrates the harms Instagram causes teen girls, especially around body image. Meta is now facing the consequences of knowingly marketing a harmful service.
Let your children embrace boredom, don’t try too hard to create the perfect lockdown holiday and warn your employer your attention might be even more divided than usual over the next few weeks.
Research suggests that expanded access to MAiD tends to benefit people with wealth and privilege, offering them choices and autonomy. At the same time, it puts marginalized people at risk.
Income and employment support are more important in addressing the mental health impact of the pandemic than mental health services.
There’s evidence that people who have been through multiple disasters experience poorer mental and physical health compared to people who have been exposed to a single disaster.
Teenagers transitioning from long-term care to independent adulthood need to be looked after. Their health, wellbeing, education and their safety are at risk
Proposed changes to the law will prevent schools from providing appropriate support for transgender and gender-diverse young people. These changes could increase their already high risks of harm.
Unlike other professions dealing with human trauma, criminal lawyers are very rarely offered psychological support. New research aims to learn how best to improve this.
Islamophobia increased post-9/11. Twenty years later, American Muslims are still dealing with the mental health effects – and research barriers limit what is known about what puts them at risk.
A lot has happened since the WHO declared the coronavirus outbreak a pandemic. A portrait in data highlights trends in everything from case counts, to research publications, to variant spread.
During COVID, many therapists took their sessions online. But others went outside with their clients, taking a leisurely stroll through a near-by park.
More 9/11 responders died from physical and mental health issues after the terrorist attacks than on the day itself. And survivors are still suffering 20 years later.
During lockdowns, researchers have explored loneliness with Australians over 65. Picking up the phone for a meaningful chat is more important than you might think.
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Professor emeritus, The University of Melbourne
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Co-Director, Health and Policy, Brain and Mind Centre, University of Sydney
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Professor of Psychology, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Psychiatry, Monash University
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Professorial Fellow in Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer in Social Work, University of Salford
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General practitioner; Associate Professor, ANU Medical School, Australian National University
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Professor, Canada Research Chair in Determinants of Child Development, Owerko Centre at the Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary
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Senior Lecturer, Centre for Positive Health Sciences, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences
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Fellow, Centre for Mental Health Research, Australian National University
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Honorary Fellow, Department of Health Sciences, University of York
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Professor and Personal Chair, Swansea University
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Professor of Psychology, San Diego State University
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Associate professor & Scientia Fellow, Discipline of Psychiatry and Mental Health, UNSW Sydney
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Clinical Psychologist and Professor in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Dalhousie University
