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Meta-analysis of the neural correlates of vigilant attention in children and adolescentsVigilant Attention (VA), defined as the ability to maintain attention to cognitively unchallenging activities over a prolonged period of time, is critical to support higher cognitive functions and many behaviours in our everyday life. Evidence has shown that VA rapidly improves throughout childhood and adolescence until young adulthood and tends to decline in older adulthood.
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Poverty, Parental Mental Health and Child/Adolescent Mental Disorders: Findings from a National Australian SurveyThe purpose of this study is to examine the association between poverty and child mental disorders
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Evaluation of a public education campaign to support parents to reduce adolescent alcohol useThe Parents, Young People and Alcohol campaign achieved high awareness and positively influenced parental outcomes
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Trends in alcohol-related injury admissions in adolescents in Western Australia and England: Population-based cohort studyMore needs to be done to address alcohol-related harm, and on-going monitoring is required to assess the effectiveness of strategies.
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Risk perception and risk-taking behaviour during adolescence: The influence of personality and genderThis study investigated the influence of personality characteristics and gender on adolescents' perception of risk and their risk-taking behaviour.
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Longer-term increased cortisol levels in young people with mental health problemsHair segment analyses revealed longer-term increased levels of cortisol in the past 3 months in early mental health problems
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Meeting the needs of young people in hospitalFor hospital-based clinicians wishing to establish AYA services, how should they proceed and what might such services look like?
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Adolescent and young adult medicine in Australia and New Zealand: towards specialist accreditationThe RACP is advancing a three-tier strategy to build greater specialist capacity and sustain leadership in adolescent and young adult medicine
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Risk factors for decline in IQ in youth with type 1 diabetes over the 12 years from diagnosis/illness onsetThis study examined illness-related change in intelligence quotient (IQ) in a cohort of youth with type 1 diabetes studied prospectively from disease onset...
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Coping Compass: co-designing a brief online positive psychology programme for youth with chronic conditionsThis article presents a case study of a 12-month co-design process with young people (16–25) living with chronic health conditions to create an online, self-guided intervention based on positive psychology. Following an established framework for co-designing with vulnerable consumers, the co-design process was designed with stakeholders to promote accessibility and maximise youth engagement in the design of the programme.