Adolescent Health
Health & Medicine
Good sleep is key to pre-teen mental health
Improving sleep could be one way to help protect and support a young adolescent’s mental health and wellbeing – with long-lasting benefits
Health & Medicine
Do new doctors get enough child health experience?
During training doctors see a lot of emergency presentations prior to entering General Practice, but evidence suggests they aren’t as confident in treating child mental health and behavioural problems
Education
Managing your family’s cabin fever
Families self-isolating together can bring the worst out in each other. Here’s how to avoid becoming a shark, turtle or fox, and instead, channeling your penguin, teddy-bear or owl
Health & Medicine
Podcast
What will it be like for teenagers of the future?
Psychologist and author Dr Katherine Canobi explores how teenagers respond to technology at a time when social media can help them disguise, or even escape from, reality
Health & Medicine
Global health efforts need to catch up with young people
Adolescents around the world have been overlooked by the global health agenda, but for the first time we now have the data to make a difference
Health & Medicine
Under the Microscope
Re-thinking our definition of adolescence
Adolescence has changed significantly in the last century. Professor Susan Sawyer is working to improve our understanding of the contemporary complexities of this age group
Health & Medicine
Rethinking how we see anorexia
Teenagers with anorexia nervosa, the most serious of all eating disorders, don’t have to be ‘skinny’ - it’s possible to be diagnosed at any weight
Health & Medicine
Why are young girls asking for vaginal cosmetic surgery?
A pilot study has found girls as young as 11 are seeking cosmetic surgery for their genitals. What’s going on?