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The effectiveness of a day hospital mentalization-based therapy programme for adolescents with borderline personality traits: Findings from Touchstone—Child and Adolescent Mental Health ServiceIndividuals with borderline personality disorder (BPD) are at a substantial risk of harm to themselves and others, experience high levels of functional impairment and typically are high users of tertiary healthcare to address their mental health concerns. As indicators for BPD typically emerge in adolescence, a day therapy service in Bentley, Western Australia, Touchstone Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS), was developed as an intensive intervention for adolescents with indicators for BPD and its associated symptomology.
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Loneliness Versus Distress: A Comparison of Emotion Regulation ProfilesLoneliness, a negative emotion stemming from the perception of unmet social needs, is a major public health concern. Current interventions often target social domains but produce small effects and are not as effective as established emotion regulation (ER)-based interventions for general psychological distress (i.e., depression/anxiety).
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Families, Life Courses and the Intergenerational Transmission of Social Disadvantage in AustraliaIn this chapter, we describe the life course approach and explain key concepts and principles. We also review variations in life course theory across disciplines including differences in terminology and understanding of core elements of life course theory.
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Causal Impact of Physical Activity on Child Health and DevelopmentThe relationship between physical activity and child health and development is well-documented, yet the extant literature provides limited causal insight into the amount of physical activity considered optimal for improving any given health or developmental outcome.
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Distress and psychological morbidity do not reduce over time in carers of patients with high-grade gliomahis study aimed to determine how carer distress and psychological morbidity change over time following a patient's diagnosis of high-grade glioma
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Feasibility Testing and Refinement of a Supportive Educational Intervention for Carers of Patients with High-Grade Glioma — a Pilot StudyThe aim of this pilot study was to test the feasibility and acceptability of a family carer intervention for carers of patients with high-grade glioma
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Bullying and mental health amongst Australian children and young people with cystic fibrosisThis study describes the peer bullying experiences of young people with CF, and examines associations between school bullying and the psychological well-being of these young people
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Maternal Alcohol Use Disorder and Risk of Child Contact with the Justice System in Western Australia: A Population Cohort Record Linkage StudyChildren who were exposed to a maternal alcohol use disorder had significantly increased odds of contact with the justice system.
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Relationship between out-of-home care placement history characteristics and educational achievement: A population level linked data study.This study examined the influence of placement stability, reunification, type of care, time in care and age at entry to care on children's educational outcomes.
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A profile of social, separation and generalized anxiety disorders in an Australian nationally representative sample of children and adolescentsSocial, separation and generalized anxiety disorders in young people are relatively common and impairing, with a high level of comorbidity