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Headspace
headspace is Australia's National Youth Mental Health Foundation website. headspace provides mental and health wellbeing support, information and services to young people and their families across Australia. The people that work at headspace are providing solutions for young people aged 12 to 25 years. ...read more »
Kids Count
Kidscount is the parenting website of the Australian Childhood Foundation with information on raising confident children, including understanding childrens' experiences and development, responding to children and finding help. ...read more »
Kids Help Line
Kids Help Line is a free, confidential and anonymous counselling service for kids and young adults. For parents, there is a parentline for support services and a newsletter. For kids there is a safe, fun and interactive place to explore the issues that affect them most. ...read more »
Reach Out!
Reach Out! is a web-based service that inspires young people to help themselves through tough times and helps them to make life choices. ...read more »
Mindfulness Meditation Increases Well-Being In Adolescent Boys
September 2010 'Mindfulness', the process of learning to become more aware of our ongoing experiences, increases well-being in adolescent boys, a new study reports.
World Suicide Prevention Day 2010
10/09/2010
September 10 is World Suicide Prevention Day. Check the website for details about activities taking place around Australia, and find resources which you can share with family, friends and co-workers whilst raising awareness and reducing the stigma of help-seeking and suicide in Australia. ...read more »
One in Four Young Australians Have a Mental Disorder
July 2010 One in four young Australians aged 16–24 years had a mental disorder in 2007, according to figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
Youth Clubs Strengthen Kids' Self Image
June 2010 When children belong to a youth club, they gain a stronger sense of who they are as a person, an Ohio State University study has revealed. The study suggests that even small improvements in self concept go a long way toward keeping children out of trouble.
The Importance of Early Detection of Depression in Young Children
May 2010 It is difficult to imagine a depressed third-grader. It is even more difficult to imagine a depressed preschooler. Although childhood depression is a well-recognized and treated disorder, only recently have research studies begun looking at depression in children younger than six years old.
Free-Range Learning for Raising Capable Kids
with Lenore Skenazy, Free-Range Kids After being dubbed ‘America’s Worst Mom’ by the media, Lenore Skenazy founded the ‘Free-Range Kids’ movement, in an attempt to figure out how we got so much more worried for our kids in just one generation, and to separate the real dangers from the ones foisted upon us by the media and other interests. ...read more »
