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Training Service Providers to work with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander LGBTQA+ youth

The goal of this project is to is to increase capacity of ACCO staff to work with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander LGBTQA+ youth and their families, with the longer-term goal of improving health service access among this population.

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Trans Pathways 2

Trans Pathways is set to receive an update ahead of the ten-year anniversary of the release of this seminal study from The Kids Research Institute Australia.

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Very Early Identification and Intervention for Infants at Risk of Neurodevelopmental Disorders: A Transdiagnostic Approach

In this article, we examine the utility of a transdiagnostic, dimensional approach to very early identification and intervention for infants at risk of neurodevelopmental disorders

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Challenges in Accurately Assessing Prenatal Alcohol Exposure in a Study of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder in a Youth Detention Center

Accurately assessing prenatal alcohol consumption is exceptionally challenging when assessed retrospectively as part of a FASD assessment for a young person sentenced to detention

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Common Pathways to NSSI and Suicide Ideation: The Roles of Rumination and Self-Compassion

The salience of self-compassion offers promise for early intervention initiatives focusing on less judgmental or self-critical means of self-relation

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Persistent negative symptoms in individuals at Ultra High Risk for psychosis

Persistent negative symptoms can be detected early, allowing for the identification of a subset of Ultra High Risk patients who are likely to have poor outcome

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Evidence that infant and early childhood developmental impairments are associated with hallucinatory experiences: Results from a large, population-based cohort study

Cognitive and motor dysfunction are hallmark features of the psychosis continuum, and have been detected during late childhood and adolescence in youth who report psychotic experiences (PE). However, previous investigations have not explored infancy and early childhood development.

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The prevalence of and potential risk factors for Developmental Language Disorder at 10 years in the Raine Study

This study sought to determine the prevalence of Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) in Australian school-aged children and associated potential risk factors for DLD at 10 years.

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Acceptability and Potential Impact of the #chatsafe Suicide Postvention Response Among Young People Who Have Been Exposed to Suicide: Pilot Study

Young people are more likely to be affected by suicide contagion, and there are concerns about the role social media plays in the development and maintenance of suicide clusters or in facilitating imitative suicidal behavior. However, social media also presents an opportunity to provide real-time and age-appropriate suicide prevention information, which could be an important component of suicide postvention activities.

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Continuity of temperament subgroup classifications from infancy to toddlerhood in the context of early autism traits

Our previous cross-sectional investigation (Chetcuti et al., 2020) showed that infants with autism traits could be divided into distinct subgroups based on temperament. This longitudinal study builds on this existing work by exploring the continuity of temperament subgroup classifications and their associations with behavioral/clinical phenotypic features from infancy to toddlerhood.