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When dealing with a difficult event, such as the current pandemic, the electrical current that governs our brains is altered, affecting behaviour and mood.
A significant portion of teenagers’ social development happens online. The risks are well known, but the benefits of peer support are often overlooked.
A psychologist and expert on gender diversity explains strategies for creating a healthy environment for trans or nonbinary kids.
Combating catastrophic demoralization and suicidal thoughts during COVID-19 means supporting people to reconnect with their values, with meaning in life and with others.
The COVID-19 pandemic has not only increased risk factors for violence, but also simultaneously decreased resiliency for individuals as well as communities.
A lack of emotional support within the police is leading to PTSD and burnout.
Eating high-nutrient foods and planning our meals are just a couple of ways you can look after your health this month.
Since the pandemic began, parents have had to negotiate their own workplace demands and other responsibilities with around-the-clock child care responsibilities.
Transgender youth have a number of research-backed medical options available to them. The multidisciplinary approach ranges from promoting family support to hormone treatments to surgery.
Two years ago an inquiry called for major reform of New Zealand’s mental health services, but since then, things got worse rather than better.
The COVID pandemic has increased the strain on an already troubled mental health system in South Australia. Now, the state’s outgoing mental health boss is calling for accountability and change.
Does it really matter that Indigenous people and other racialized people experience microaggressions? The short answer: Yes.
Popular opinion has it that introverts are thriving in lockdown – but studies paint a different picture.
The easing of lockdown restrictions is good news for struggling high streets, but consumers are still wary.
Social media doesn’t always offer comfort, but the space and support it can provide should be mirrored offline
After more than a year of isolation and empty schedules, some kids might be apprehensive or anxious about interacting with the outside world. Psychology experts provide tips to ease the transition.
At least one in 10 LGBTQA+ Australians are still vulnerable to religion-based practices to change or suppress their sexuality or gender identity.
Research shows that the gaps in physical exercise have widened substantially between men and women, whites and non-whites, rich and poor and educated and less educated: especially during the pandemic.
Cognitive behavioural therapy research contains little data from minority groups. This makes it difficult to know whether this therapy is effective for everyone.
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Professor emeritus, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Psychology, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Psychiatry, Monash University
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Co-Director, Health and Policy, Brain and Mind Centre, University of Sydney
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Professorial Fellow in Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne
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General practitioner; Associate Professor, ANU Medical School, Australian National University
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Senior Lecturer in Social Work, University of Salford
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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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Professor of Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne
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Associate professor & Scientia Fellow, Discipline of Psychiatry and Mental Health, UNSW Sydney
