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The Healing Kids, Healing Families team strives to understand how trauma and adverse circumstances can impact a child and their family, and how we can help them to recover from these experiences.
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Effectiveness, Acceptability, and Feasibility of Digital Health Interventions for LGBTIQ+ Young People: Systematic ReviewYoung people (aged 12-25 years) with diverse sexuality, gender, or bodily characteristics, such as those who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, or queer (LGBTIQ+), are at substantially greater risk of a range of mental, physical, and sexual health difficulties compared with their peers. Digital health interventions have been identified as a potential way to reduce these health disparities.
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Improving the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal KidsThe Kids created history by surveying 1 in 6 indigenous children across the State and collecting information on just how this generation is travelling.
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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 servicesMelissa O'Donnell BPsych (Hons), MPsych, GradDip Ed, PhD Honorary Research Associate Honorary Research Associate Areas of research expertise: Child
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Introducing ‘Young Minds Matter’This article describes the survey, the response rates achieved and the representativeness of the sample for the Young Minds Matter survey
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Psychosocial resilience and vulnerability in Western Australian Aboriginal youthWe review findings from our previous studies which show the application of a person-based resilience framework of analysis in the context of WA aboriginal youth
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Chronic health conditions, mental health and the school: A narrative reviewSchool-based social risk processes in the lives of young people with chronic health conditions are likely to contribute to risk of psychological problems
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Smoking, mental illness and socioeconomic disadvantage: Analysis of the Australian National survey of mental health and WellbeingThere are strong socioeconomic and psychosocial gradients in both current smoking and smoking cessation.
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Maternal mental health and risk of child protection involvement: Mental health diagnoses associated with increased riskThis WA data linkage study aims to assess whether maternal mental health problems are associated with worse child development outcomes, children’s safety and...
The Youth Mental Health team's mission to improve the mental health of young people in Western Australia and beyond.