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Mind The Distance

Yael Jacinta Penelope Keely Bep Amy Helen Claire Perry Freeman Strauss Bebbington Uink Finlay-Jones Milroy McIlroy BPsych (Hons) MPsych (Clin) PhD

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School-based depression and anxiety prevention programs: An updated systematic review and meta-analysis

Depression and anxiety are often first experienced during childhood and adolescence, and interest in the prevention of these disorders is growing. The focus of this review was to assess the effectiveness of psychological prevention programs delivered in schools, and to provide an update to our previous review from five years ago (Werner-Seidler, Perry, Calear, Newby, & Christensen, 2017).

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Community identifies priorities for new youth mental health research

Embrace at The Kids Research Institute Australia has identified the top 10 unexplored infant, child and youth mental health research priorities in consultation with the Western Australian community.

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Predicting and preventing child removals and optimising the child protection system for Aboriginal children in partnership with Aboriginal communities and health services

Melissa O'Donnell BPsych (Hons), MPsych, GradDip Ed, PhD Honorary Research Associate Honorary Research Associate Areas of research expertise: Child

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Monitoring the physical and mental health of Australian children and young people: a foundation for responsive and accountable actions

Pete Azzopardi PhD, FRACP, MEpi, MBBS, GDipBiostats, BMedSci Head, Adolescent Health and Wellbeing Head, Adolescent Health and Wellbeing Professor

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Parental Experiences of Supporting the Mental Health of Their LGBTQA+ Child

Young people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer or questioning, asexual and other diverse genders and sexualities (LGBTQA+) are at greater risk of adverse mental health outcomes and suicide, with additional barriers to accessing safe and affirming physical and mental health services in comparison to the general population.

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Congratulations to Professor Helen Milroy – WA’s 2021 Australian of the Year

The Kids Research Institute Australia congratulates Professor Helen Milroy on being named Western Australia’s 2021 Australian of the Year.

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Using participatory action research to prevent suicide in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities

Using a participatory action research approach, the communities were supported to identify the risk factors challenging individuals, families and communities...

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Maladaptive parenting and child emotional symptoms in the early school years

The current study investigated whether being exposed to maladaptive parenting (high hostility and low warmth) and/or marital conflict in infancy is...