Undergraduate science students are anxious about climate change, but are concerned their education isn’t giving them the tools to take meaningful action.
New study findings reveal higher levels of school belonging at the age of 15 to 16 were associated with lower levels of depression, anxiety and stress in young adulthood.
Victoria is set to raise the age of criminal responsibility to 12 this year, but questions remain as to what responses should be implemented to improve outcomes for young offenders and the community.
There’s plenty of evidence showing how social media use can affect youth mental health, but studies often omit the developing countries of the global south.
It was thought that after the pandemic, young people’s outlook for the future might have improved. But the latest Australian Youth Barometer survey shows it’s actually become worse.
To rebuild our children’s mental health after the duress of the COVID-19 pandemic, we must redefine how mental health services are delivered to our communities, and create a scaffold of affordable and accessible support.
Young people are getting a dose of social media-driven eco-anxiety, but there are ways we can help them beat it.
Displaced youths face several barriers to accessing quality learning opportunities, exacerbated by distance, crowding, and limited capacity.
We need to move beyond whether cancel culture is good or bad, and understand in more nuanced terms what it means, especially given the political weaponising of it.
Struggling with climate anxiety? You’re not alone. Experts unpack this unprecedented and growing mental health crisis.
If the world genuinely wants to reach some semblance of “sustainable development”, it needs to start listening more to the concerns of youth and marginalised populations.
New research from The Smith Family tracks a group of young people, two years after finishing high school.
Australia has moved from a laggard to a global leader in leaving care policy and practice, but further work is required to broadly address three major areas.
Sexual and gender-minority people in Asia experience unique cultural stressors, and high levels of depression, but one type of therapy is holding promise.
The rights of trans people have become a highly divisive political issue in the US and UK. Recent events underline how we must be proactive in ensuring Australia doesn’t mirror their transphobic environments.
The stereotype of the old woman is anxious, dependent, useless, and a burden. But interviews with older women found them contributing to society in myriad ways.
We need not just an acknowledgement of children as victim-survivors in their own right, but a commitment to boost resourcing of child-centred recovery support.
For many LGBTIQA+ young people in Australia, educational institutions can be places of harassment and discrimination, and offer little in the way of mental health support. They deserve better.
A rise in psychological distress among young Australians, compounded by COVID-19 and difficulties in getting professional help, has added to the urgency of mental health education in schools.
Teens have been through a lot in the pandemic, and things won’t simply go back to normal as the nation opens up. Here’s how to support their mental health during the transition.
The 2021 Australian Youth Barometer, a survey of more than 500 young Australians aged 18 to 24, reflects the pressures young Australians have been under during COVID-19.
The new Neuromedicines Discovery Centre (NDC) aims to develop psychiatric drugs and approaches to psychedelic-assisted psychotherapies for common mental illnesses.
Researchers say professional services must be proactive, and provide targeted prevention and intervention initiatives to children and parents living with parental mental illness.
Turbulent factors and forces in education and employment are shaping the uncertain futures of young people.
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