Project gathering positive results for family’s battling mental illness
Faced with these disturbing statistics, a Monash University research project is trialling specific interventions to engage with families and children within specialist mental health and family services. This project is being undertaken as part...
Replacing classroom with outdoors
New La Trobe research advocates the educational and emotional benefits of the 'great outdoors' for optimal learning.
Professor Margaret Robertson, lead editor of the new book Experiencing the Outdoors: Enhancing Strategies for Wellbeing, said the...
Decline in heart health can start in childhood
Heart health, which is optimal for most at birth, can decline substantially with unhealthy childhood behaviours, according to research in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, an American Heart Association journal.
“Our findings indicate that, in...
Impact of Parents’ Military Deployment on Children’s Safety and Mental Health
A recent study published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry reports that following military parents’ return from combat deployment, their children show increased visits for mental healthcare, physical...
Impact of Parents' Military Deployment on Children’s Safety and Mental Health
A recent study published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry reports that following military parents’ return from combat deployment, their children show increased visits for mental healthcare, physical...
Hugs Can’t Fix Anxiety from Physical Punishment
A loving mom can't overcome the anxiety and aggression caused by corporal punishment, and her otherwise warm demeanour may make it worse, according to research led by Duke University that was recently published in...
Hugs Can't Fix Anxiety from Physical Punishment
A loving mom can't overcome the anxiety and aggression caused by corporal punishment, and her otherwise warm demeanour may make it worse, according to research led by Duke University that was recently published in...
Number of births may affect mum’s future heart health
Women who give birth to four or more children are more likely to have cardiovascular changes that can be early indicators of heart disease than women who have fewer children, new research by University...
Participants sought for study on caring for a child using Insulin Pump Therapy
Are you interested in being part of a study on using Insulin Pump Therapy?
The Paediatric & Adolescent iNsulin Pump Decision Aid - a novel intervention Project, is run by the Paediatric Diabetes Centre, Royal Hobart...
Testing treatments for children’s behaviour disorders
Most parents have times when their defiant, argumentative child seems like an antagonistic alien. Hostile, boundary-pushing behaviour is usually part of normal childhood development.
However, when the behaviour isn’t transient, when it’s intense and relentless,...
