Youth Studies Australia articles from June 2002

Youth Studies Australia archives from June 2002

The mental health of young Australians.
June 1, 2002... With Brisbane hosting the Third International Conference on Child and Adolescent Mental Health this month, it seemed an appropriate time for YSA also to focus on this important topic. We approached the Australian Infant, Child, Adolescent and...

Attitudes & opinions. (Youth monitor: a national roundup of recent press reports on youth issues).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... Trust Young Australians around 14 years of age are far less likely than some of their overseas counterparts to be engaged in the political process, an international study of students shows. Conducted over the past two years by the...

Bullying & violence. (Youth monitor: a national roundup of recent press reports on youth issues).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... Sharing responsibility A new approach to stopping bullying in schools has been successful, according to research by Dr Brenda Morrison from the Australian National University. Dr Morrison's study examined two classes of Year 5 students at...

Child abuse & protection. (Youth monitor: a national roundup of recent press reports on youth issues).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... Ombudsman reports In New South Wales, the Department of Community Services has been the subject of a special report to the state parliament by the Ombudsman. According to Adele Horin, a distinguished feature writer with the Sydney Morning...

Crime & justice. (Youth monitor: a national roundup of recent press reports on youth issues).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... Naming offenders Later this year, changes to Queensland's Juvenile Justice Act will permit judges to name minors convicted of violent crimes. The proposed amendments also include new sentencing options for high-risk juvenile offenders who...

Disability. (Youth monitor: a national roundup of recent press reports on youth issues).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... Sight-impaired students The introduction of the Internet and standard computer programs as teaching tools has been helpful to blind and partly sighted students. By using one of three recommended software programs that can read out text,...

Drugs. (Youth monitor: a national roundup of recent press reports on youth issues).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... Marijuana and depression Melbourne researchers say they have found the strongest evidence yet that heavy marijuana smoking causes depression, especially in young women. To gather data, the Centre for Adolescent Health at the Royal...

Education. (Youth monitor: a national roundup of recent press reports on youth issues).
June 1, 2002... Literacy and numeracy The 2000 National Report on Schooling in Australia from the Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs shows that, across the nation as a whole, 92.5% of Year 3 students achieved the...

Employment. (Youth monitor: a national roundup of recent press reports on youth issues).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... Nurses in demand Young people graduating in nursing can be sure of a job. The Graduate Careers Council of Australia found that last year only 3% of nursing graduates and 5% of the postgraduates were still looking for jobs six months after...

Families. (Youth monitor: a national roundup of recent press reports on youth issues).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... Useful fathers A 40-year study by Oxford University's Centre for Research into Parenting and Children found that having close paternal involvement in a child's upbringing is good for the child's relationships, health and academic...

Gender issues. (Youth monitor: a national roundup of recent press reports on youth issues).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... Asking the boys There is wide-ranging concern about adolescent boys' academic achievements and social behaviour in Australia. Special programs for boys, parliamentary inquiries, conferences on boys' education, and books about bringing up...

Health & safety. (Youth monitor: a national roundup of recent press reports on youth issues).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... Statistical snapshot Federal Government fact sheets on Australia's 2.7 million 15-24-year-olds suggest that this age group is getting healthier. On average, 19% of these young people report having visited a doctor in the week before being...

Immigration. (Youth monitor: a national roundup of recent press reports on youth issues).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... Children in detention After a five-day visit to the Woomera detention centre in January, the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission released a report finding no evidence of parents encouraging children to engage in acts of...

Incomes & expenditures. (Youth monitor: a national roundup of recent press reports on youth issues).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... Managing money In a feature article on young people and their savings, Helen Matterson quoted David Kott, chairman of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, as saying that financial management should be taught in schools but...

Indigenous youth. (Youth monitor: a national roundup of recent press reports on youth issues).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... Staying on at school The Australian Bureau of Statistics has pointed out that Indigenous students' retention rates to Year 10 improved by more than 10% during the five years from 1996 to 2001. Also, more than 36% of Indigenous students...

Participation. (Youth monitor: a national roundup of recent press reports on youth issues).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... `Social venture capital' The world of venture capitalists has provided an unusual source of inspiration for a charitable foundation. Using the idea of distributing seed funding to innovative enterprises, Mary Wooldridge, chief executive of...

Public space. (Youth monitor: a national roundup of recent press reports on youth issues).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... Darwin night patrols A police `youth night patrol' is to start operating in Darwin from July, in a bid to stop juvenile crime and vandalism. It will target areas that have been identified as hot spots. The service would target `young...

Risk-taking. (Youth monitor: a national roundup of recent press reports on youth issues).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... After the joyride A comic-book and an animated video are the latest tools being used to teach juveniles about the possible consequences of driving stolen cars. The comic Spur of the Moment and the video Ride of Your Life both aim to show...

Services & welfare. (Youth monitor: a national roundup of recent press reports on youth issues).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... Child care at school Earlier this year, Balga Senior High School, just north of Perth, became the first school in Australia to offer its students a child-care centre on school grounds. The centre expected to have nine babies enrolled by...

Sexuality. (Youth monitor: a national roundup of recent press reports on youth issues).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... Pregnancy in SA The South Australian Department of Human Services has reported that South Australian teenage girls who face unplanned pregnancy are more likely to have an abortion than to give birth. In the year 2000, almost 2,000...

Sport & leisure. (Youth monitor: a national roundup of recent press reports on youth issues).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... Skateboarding At the Chatswood Skate Park, in Sydney, the Australian Sports Commission launched a Street Active initiative aimed at increasing participation in skateboarding and other `grassroots' sports. Under the program, training...

Suicide. (Youth monitor: a national roundup of recent press reports on youth issues).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... `The last taboo' In a feature article, youth affairs reporter Laura Kendall pointed out that, in a heartening shift, the nation's youth suicide rate has decreased dramatically since 1997. For that year, Australian Bureau of Statistics...

Technology. (Youth monitor: a national roundup of recent press reports on youth issues).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... Careers Nine IT professionals under the age of 25 are trying to turn young people on to careers in technology. With concerns that young people may be losing interest in high-technology courses at university, and in the face of a prevalent...

Mental health issues for young Australians. (Special Focus).
June 1, 2002... WELCOME to this special edition of Youth Studies Australia focusing on mental health issues for young Australians. We believe that mental health is "everybody's business", with professional and nonprofessional people from a range of backgrounds...

Children, young people & families: a population health approach to mental health.
June 1, 2002... Beverley Raphael explains why a population health approach, which encompasses both public health and clinical services interventions, is eminently suitable to address the emotional and behavioural problems, mental health problems and mental...

Children of parents with a mental illness: a national initiative.
June 1, 2002... The Children of parents with a Mental Illness National Initiative is a three-year project designed to promote better mental health outcomes for children of parents with a mental illness. It will do this by providing young people, their parents,...

The ACE program: working with schools to promote emotional health and prevent depression.
June 1, 2002... The ACE (Adolescents Coping with Emotions) project was developed as an early intervention program for young people with depression. It is a school-based cognitive-behavioural program that aims to improve young people's resilience by teaching...

Headroom: promoting the mental health of young people: a multimedia approach.
June 1, 2002... Mental health promotion has been defined "as any action taken to maximise mental health and well-being among populations and individuals" (Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care 2000b). As an area of practice it encompasses a broad...

Day programs for young people with mental health issues.
June 1, 2002... Intervention with children and young people at an early stage can prevent emotional and behavioural problems from becoming entrenched and, therefore, minimise the long-term impact on young people's lives. Adolescent Services--Enfield Campus...

`Beyondblue': targeting depression in young people.
June 1, 2002... The Federal and Victorian governments have each provided $17.5 million over five years to assist in the establishment of `beyondblue: the national depression initiative'. The role of `beyondblue' is to address the major health burden of...

Remote communities, child telepsychiatry & primary health care: Brendan Sheahan argues that a primary health care approach used in conjunction with clinical service delivery can, through the use of tools such as videoconferencing, provide rural communities with a comprehensive range of services, consultants and programs in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services.
June 1, 2002... Remote community mental health service delivery is in a period of rapid change--strategies, plans, equity of access, "bush politics", research, life span interventions, prevention programs, pharmacology advances, teams where sole practitioners...

National Youth Roundtable 2002. (Commonwealth Government Youth Initiatives).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... The mental health issues of young Australians are a focus for a number of the members of this year's National Youth Roundtable. The National Youth Roundtable was established in 1999 by the Federal Government to create a direct dialogue with...

Electronic information for the youth field.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... Forum on dual diagnosis and young people The NSW Association for Adolescent Health (NAAH) is hosting a free forum in partnership with several other drug and alcohol and mental health agencies in NSW on Wednesday 28 August at the State...

Understanding Mental Illness: Pamphlets. (Resources).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... SANE Australia, 2000-2001, RRP $16.50 for 100 plus $6.00 postage and handling. Sane Australia, an Australian charity that helps people affected by mental illness, has produced a range of pamphlets that `explain what mental illness is and...

Every Body Needs to Know. (Resources).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... Family Planning Queensland, 2001. Every Body Needs to Know is a teaching/learning package that was developed by Family Planning Queensland in response to a need expressed by educators and workers in the disability field. It comprises...

In other words. (Resources).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... Heathcliff Distribution, 2001. Heathcliff Distribution provides videocassettes and other media on bereavement and loss, palliative care, trauma, sexual abuse, domestic violence, sexuality and a wide range of other subjects from...

Film Australia Catalogue 2002. (Resources).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... Film Australia. Film Australia is a Commonwealth-owned production and distribution company and also one of the nation's largest producers of television documentaries and educational programs. The catalogue lists films in group...

Speak Out--Speak Easy: Stories from young people about mental health problems. (Resources).
June 1, 2002... Central Sydney Area Mental Health Service & South Sydney Youth Services, 2001, ISBN 0958612102, 45pp. Youth Studies Australia only heard of this publication as we went to press; however, South Sydney Youth Services has provided the...

Joe's Diary: a SANE guide for young people.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... SANE Australia, 2001, ISBN 1875182659, 37pp., RRP $7.00 plus $3.00 postage and handling. Joe's Diary was developed for the estimated 30,000 young Australians who have a parent with mental illness. In a storyline that is engaging and...

Teachers, Students and the Law: a quick reference guide for teachers.
June 1, 2002... D. Hopkins, Victoria Law Foundation Publishing, 2002, ISBN 18786045175, 72 pp., RRP $6.50 (20% discount for orders of three or more). A quick search of the Internet for recent cases of teachers facing legal prosecution reveals the legal...

The Invisible Table: Perspectives on Youth and Youthwork in New Zealand.
June 1, 2002... L. Martin, Dunmore Press Ltd, 2002, ISBN 0864694091, 207pp. The introduction to Lloyd Martin's book quickly dispels any image Australian readers might have of New Zealand as a sparsely populated version of Australia. New Zealand is...

Promoting Family Wellness and Preventing Child Maltreatment: Fundamentals for thinking and action.
June 1, 2002... I. Prilleltensky, G. Nelson & L. Peirson (eds), University of Toronto Press, 2001, ISBN 0802083838, 540pp. This edited collection of essays is based on extensive research and consultation in Canada and other countries undertaken by the...

Diversity and Mental Health in Challenging Times.
June 1, 2002... B. Raphael & A.-E. Malak (eds), Transcultural Mental Health Centre, 2001, ISBN 1740800044, pp.266, RRP $33.00 plus $7.00 postage and handling. In this the eighth monograph in the Culture and Mental Health Series from the Transcultural...

The effects of terrorism on teens' perceptions of dying: the New World is riskier than ever before. (Mental health).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... B.L. Halpern-Felsher & S.G. Millstein, Journal of Adolescent Health, v.30, n.5, 2002, pp.308-11. Data collected from independent samples of ninth-grade students attending public schools in middle to upper-middle class Californian...

Adolescent victimization and subsequent use of mental health counseling services. (Mental health).
June 1, 2002... N.B. Guterman, H.C. Hahm & M. Cameron, Journal of Adolescent Health, v.30, n.5, 2002, pp.336-45. Data from 4,590 American high school students participating in the National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health (Add Health) were...

Emergency management of the adolescent suicide attempter: a review of the literature. (Mental health).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... S.E. Stewart, I.G. Manion & S. Davidson, Journal of Adolescent Health, v.30, n.5, 2002, pp. 312-25. This review by American authors of risk factors, assessment, disposition, treatment options and noncompliance of adolescent suicide...

Barriers to adolescents accessing mental health services. (Mental health).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... C. Kodjo, P. Auinger & S. Ryan, Journal of Adolescent Health, v. 30, n.2, 2002, pp.101-02. With one in 10 adolescents in the United States affected by depression but only 30% of children and adolescents in need of mental health care...

Predictors of depression in female adolescents. (Mental health).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... L.C. Milne & S. Lancaster, Adolescence, v. 36, n.142, 2001, pp.207-23. The aim of this study was to develop a statistical model to demonstrate how parental representations, parent attachment, peer attachment, separation-individuation,...

A study of the frequency of self-mutilation in a community sample of adolescents. (Mental health).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... S. Ross & N. Heath, Journal of Youth and Adolescence, v. 31, n.1, 2002, pp.67-77. Despite tentative evidence suggesting that self-harming behaviours including self-mutilation (SM) may be increasing, there has been little empirical research...

Mental health services in schools: the challenge of locating a psychotherapy service for troubled adolescent pupils in mainstream and special schools. (Mental health).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... G. Baruch, Journal of Adolescence, v.24, n.4, 2001, pp.549-70. The first part of this lengthy paper presents the case for school-based mental health services and assesses their advantages and potential pitfalls. The second part describes...

Enuresis, firesetting, and cruelty to animals: does the ego triad show predictive validity? (Mental health).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... M.L. Slavin, Adolescence, v. 36, n.143, 2001, pp461-66. Examinations of the motivating forces behind juvenile firesetting have often relied on a psychoanalytic approach, which was exemplified by Yarnell (1940) who believed in an ego triad...

Mental health problems and symptoms among male adolescents attending a teen health clinic. (Mental health).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... P.B. Smith, R.S. Buzi & M.L. Weinman, Adolescence, v.36, n.142, 2001, pp.323-32. Fifty-one males (average age 19) who attended a teen health clinic in a large county hospital in southwestern USA completed a problem area checklist and a...

Effect of major depression on the self-image of adolescent boys and girls. (Mental health).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... V. Korhonen, E. Laukkanen, S. Peiponen, J. Lehtonen & H. Vinnamaki, Journal of Youth and Adolescence, v. 30, n.6, 2001, pp.697-706. Adolescents with major depressive disorder (MDD) frequently present with a poor self-image; however, it is...

Depression, suicidal ideation and STD-related risk in homeless older adolescents. (Mental health).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... P. Rohde, J. Noell, L. Ochs & J.R. Seeley, Journal of Adolescence, v.24, n.4, 2001, pp.447-60. The frequency of depression and related constructs of suicidal ideation and hopelessness in homeless older adolescents and their associations...

Relations of pubertal timing and depressive symptoms to substance use in early adolescence. (Mental health).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... M. Wiesner & A. Ittel, Journal of Early Adolescence, v.22, n.1, 2002, pp.5-23. A study of 369 German students (average age 11.49) tested three hypotheses. First, that early maturers are more at risk for engaging in substance use; second,...

Young adolescents' well-being and health-risk behaviors: Gender and socioeconomic differences. (Mental health).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... M.M. Bergman & J. Scott, Journal of Adolescence, v.24, n.2, 2001, pp.183-97. Data from the 1994-1997 Youth Surveys of the British Household Panel Study were combined (n=1274, age 11-15) and used to examine the well-being of young...

A program to promote positive body image: a 1-year follow-up evaluation. (Mental health).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... G.L. McVey & R. Davis, Journal of Early Adolescence, v.22, n.1, 2002, pp.96-108. To evaluate the effectiveness of a program designed to promote body image satisfaction and prevent eating problems in young adolescent girls, 263 Canadian...