Mental health

Emily Hemendinger
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Media influences and conventional beauty standards have long plagued society. This issue took on new urgency in May 2023 when the U.S. surgeon general issued a major public advisory

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As of July 1, authorised psychiatrists have been allowed to prescribe MDMA (the chemical found in “ecstasy”) to treat post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

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Clinical Prof Leanne Rowe AM
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Struggling to make time for yourself? You’re not alone, but it can be done…

Adrian Desai Boström
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Suicide rarely happens in the absence of severe mental health problems. Research indicates that psychiatric disorders are prevalent in up to 90% of adolescents who die from suicide. In particular, what are known as affective disorders, such as major depressive disorder and bipolar disorder, are present in 44%-76% of cases.

Dr Cher McGillivray
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Normalise the conversation about moral injury- Emotional Intelligence is important to be able to verbalise.

Clinical Prof Leanne Rowe AM
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We can re-write our personal stories of hope and heroism to find inner peace and internal validation.

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GPs report significant deterioration in mental wellbeing over the last six months

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Dr Sarah Tedjasukmana
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Low vitamin D levels have been linked to increased risk of onset of depression—but are there implications for treatment?

Andrew Fuller
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Clinical psychologist and family therapist Andrew Fuller explains how to build rapport with young people.

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This activity will focus on dementia prevention in primary care and will involve sending a link to a standardised questionnaire (CogDrisk) aimed at calculating a risk profile and identifying modifiable risk factors for dementia to all your patients between age 45-65, discussing the results with your patients and reporting on the outcomes in the report template provided.

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Andrew Fuller
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Enaging with reluctant teens requires building trust, but consults can still be brief

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David John Hallford
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Many people at risk of suicide are going undetected and unsupported in our community, our research suggests