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Research Fellow in Youth Suicide Prevention
The Kids Research Institute Australia is supporting calls for the urgent release of Biloela family from held detention.
Longer time since last acute coronary syndrome admission was associated with dispensing fewer medications types and combinations in 2008
Head, Genetics & Health
Efforts to eliminate rheumatic heart disease (RHD) have been significantly strengthened, with a $1 million grant awarded through the Future Health Research and Innovation Fund (FHRI) Spotlight Program.
As a parent of two teenage daughters, I like to think I know what's going on in their lives and how they are feeling.
Unmet language and literacy needs are common among young people who are involved with youth justice systems. However, there is limited research regarding the functional text-level language skills of this population with regard to narrative macrostructure (story grammar) and microstructure (semantics and syntax) elements. In this study, we examined macrostructure and microstructure elements in the oral and written narrative texts of 24 adolescent students of a youth detention centre. The students, who were aged 14- to 17- years, were all speakers of Standard Australian English, and 11 (46%) students met criteria for language disorder (LD).
The findings suggest consistency between caregivers in their reports of the difficulties experienced by children with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
The aim of the current project is to explore view of youth with lived experiences and their caregiver on the role of parent/caregivers and family in the prevention and treatment of anxiety and depression in adolescents in low- and middle- income countries.
New research has uncovered how adolescents experience high levels of dissociation symptoms.