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Exploring LGBTQA+ young people’s experiences of suicidality: a qualitative study

Penelope Helen Yael Strauss Morgan Perry BA, MPH, PhD BA (Hons), Doctor of Psychology BPsych (Hons) MPsych (Clin) PhD Research Fellow in Youth

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LGBTQIA+ Inclusive Practice Training for Medical and Psychology Students

This research aims to improve the mental health of LGBTQIA+ individuals through enhanced inclusive practice training for trainee health professionals.

Join the Youth Mental Health LGBTQ+ reference group

The Youth Mental Health team is looking for a diverse group of young people to help inform research into mental health in LGBTIQ+ young people.

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Declining transition rates to psychotic disorder in "ultra-high risk" clients: Investigation of a dilution effect

Later ultra-high risk psychosis cohorts presented with different clinical intake characteristics than earlier cohorts

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Acute Tryptophan Depletion Moja-De: A Method to Study Central Nervous Serotonin Function in Children and Adolescents

Serotonin (5-HT) is widely implicated as a key neurotransmitter relevant to a range of psychiatric disorders and psychological processes. The role of central nervous 5-HT function underlying these processes can be examined through serotonergic challenge methodologies.

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Puberty suppression in transgender children and adolescents

We review the available empirical evidence on the cognitive, physical, and surgical implications of puberty suppression in gender-incongruent children and adolescents

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Intersex adolescents seeking help for their depression: the case study of SPARX in New Zealand

SPARX is a computerized cognitive behavioral therapy self-help program for adolescent depression that is freely available in New Zealand. At registration, users identify themselves as either male, female, intersex, or transgender. We aimed to describe the mental health of adolescent intersex users. A secondary analysis of SPARX usage data over 5 years.

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Suicide by young Australians, 2006-2015: a cross-sectional analysis of national coronial data

Citation: Hill NTM, McGorry PD, Robinson J. Suicide by young Australians, 2006–2015: a cross-sectional analysis of national coronial data. Med J Aust

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Is sport an untapped resource for recovery from first episode psychosis? A narrative review and call to action

Sport-based interventions could be an opportunity to provide intervention to individuals recovering from their first psychotic episode

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Functional connectivity of the vigilant-attention network in children and adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder

ADHD patients showed substantially diminished intrinsic coupling for 7 connections and increased coupling for 4 connections