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The natural way to better mental health
Open Forum | June 8, 2025Regular chats with friends, time spent in nature and mentally engaging activities are strongly linked to better mental health, according to new Curtin University research that highlights the power of simple, everyday behaviours to improve well-being.
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Paging Doctor Claude
Open Forum | February 13, 2025US researchers say AI chatbots such as Claude and ChatGPT could be as good as, if not better, than psychotherapists in delivering mental health therapy.
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Integrating wellbeing into mental health research
Lilly Matson | July 8, 2024New research suggests mental wellbeing should be measured alongside standard tests for mental health conditions.
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Happier children mean happier adults
Lucy Grummitt | June 10, 2024A new study suggests it’s time the eradication of child maltreatment became a major public health priority to reduce the later toll of adult mental illness.
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After the final whistle
Open Forum | June 4, 2024Sporting careers are always relatively short, and people forced to retire from their chosen sport at an early age are at an even higher risk of feeling bereft when their days on the field are over.
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Boosting belonging for school mental health
Kelly-Ann Allen | May 2, 2024Initiatives to enhance a sense of school belonging can have positive and far-reaching effects on the mental health of young people.
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Overthinking everything
Kirsty Ross | March 9, 2024If you find overthinking everything is affecting your life, and your levels of anxiety are rising or your enjoyment of life is being negatively affected, it might be time to get some strategies to get your mind back on track.
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Green mental health
Alan Stevenson | January 24, 2024Getting out into nature helps people improve their mental health – and bringing nature back into our cities can reduce crime.
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What ails Australia?
Open Forum | December 14, 2023Mental health and substance use disorders are now the second largest group of diseases causing illness and premature death in Australia, according to a report from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.
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Mental health goes digital
Jacinthe Flore | December 10, 2023The isolating effects of the pandemic in 2020 and 2021 were a springboard for fast-paced, data-driven, technologically delivered changes in mental health care, led by new firms taking advantage of sluggish progress by traditional services.