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Leading youth mental health researchers welcome sector fundingLeaders of Western Australia’s youth mental health research sector from Embrace at The Kids Research Institute Australia have welcomed the state government’s $420 million boost to mental health spending in its 2023-24 budget.
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Bad news days: How to limit your child’s exposure to trauma in the mediaThe world can be a scary place for children. Wars, terrorist atrocities, natural disasters, bushfires, famine and shocking crimes are all regular features in the news we consume – not to mention the almost blanket coverage of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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The impact of racial discrimination on the health of Australian Indigenous children aged 5–10 years: analysis of national longitudinal dataDirect and persistent vicarious racial discrimination are detrimental to the physical and mental health of Indigenous children in Australia
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Incidence and prevalence of falls in adults with intellectual disability living in the community: a systematic review protocol.Our objective is to synthesize the best available evidence to determine the incidence and prevalence of falls in intellectually disabled adults in the community
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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and child sexual abuse in institutional settingsThe Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse commissioned The Kids Research Institute Australia to collaborate on a report
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School absence and its effect on school performance for children born with orofacial cleftsWe aimed to describe school absence and its relationship with school performance for children with and without orofacial clefts.
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Influence of exposure to perinatal risk factors and parental mental health related hospital admission on adolescent deliberate self-harm riskAdolescent deliberate self-harm (DSH) has been found to be associated with a range of bio-psycho-social factors.
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The development of a culturally appropriate school based intervention for Australian Aboriginal children living in remote communities: A formative evaluation of the Alert Program® interventionThe aim of this article is to describe a three phase formative process to develop and pilot a curriculum version of the Alert Program®
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Using clinical information to make individualized prognostic predictions in people at ultra high risk for psychosisRecent studies have shown an association between psychopathology and subsequent clinical and functional outcomes in people at UHR for psychosis.
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Enrichment increases hippocampal neurogenesis independent of blood monocyte-derived microglia presence following high-dose total body irradiationlatent neural precursor cells remain present in the neurogenic niche of the adult hippocampus up to 8 weeks following high-dose total body irradiation