What youth want from GPs
New research led by medical students from the University of Tasmania’s Rural Clinical School has revealed what young people really want when visiting their general practitioner.
The medical students surveyed 155 teenagers aged 16-18 from...
One in 33 children receives child protection services, the majority repeat clients
The number of children receiving child protection services continues to rise, with almost three-quarters of these children repeat clients, according to new analysis from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW).
The report, Child protection...
Intervention That Engages Youth on Ethnic and Racial Identity Can Enhance Positive Development
A new study examined the Identity Project, a mental-health promotion intervention that engages youth in exploring and resolving issues around their ethnic and racial identities. It found that the program helps promote key developmental...
Early periods associated with risk of gestational diabetes
The age at which girls start menstruating could flag a later risk of diabetes during pregnancy, according to a University of Queensland study.
UQ School of Public Health researchers analysed data from more than 4700 women from the Australian...
Brains of teens with anorexia nervosa altered
Even after weeks of treatment and considerable weight gain, the brains of adolescent patients with anorexia nervosa remain altered, putting them at risk for possible relapse, according to researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz...
Self harm on the increase in young people
Self harm among young Australians is on the increase, and more needs to be done to understand and address the problem.
This is the call from Garry King, a researcher from Griffith’s Australian Institute for Suicide Research...
Young women gear up for FIRST Robotics Competition
Swinburne University has opened its state-of-the-art Factory of the Future to a team of young women set to compete in an international robotics competition.
Comprised of 17 students from Melbourne high schools, the girls-only RoboCats spent six...
The last of the ‘90s babies head to uni
Want to reach them? Forget telephone or email; try social media instead.
They were born in the year that could have ended it all – right before the turn of a new century and the...
Planning and Participation: a new study targeting teenagers with autism
Adolescence is a critical period of transition between childhood and adulthood. Teenagers experience rapid developmental changes and face new challenges from the world around them.
At the same time, they are looking to develop their...
Young people with disability- relationships with support workers
The dynamics of the relationship between young people with disability and their support worker is revealed in a new book launched in Lismore and Sydney by Southern Cross University’s Centre for Children and Young...
