Youth Mental Health

The Orygen Institute panel discussion at the end of July 2022 was a timely contribution to the discussion on what is needed to reduce self-harm and suicide among young people.

Today, in partnership with ReachOut, Instagram is launching its latest Australian safety and wellbeing campaign, Reel Talk.    Working with creator parent and teen duos, the Reel Talk campaign will see Kat Clark and daughter Deja, Bobbi Lockyer and son Sebastian, and George Ray and mum Roslyn produce a series of video Reels for Instagram. The Reel Talk series will showcase how …

Adolescents are particularly vulnerable to developing mental health disorders. The COVID pandemic has added to already worrying trends in the mental health of children and young people. In our paper, we call on policymakers, health services and researchers to pay more attention to the risks of a lack of digital …

Children and teenagers affected by the conflict in Ukraine are to be given a helping hand thanks to a computer game designed to help them deal with the things they have experienced in a war zone.

There is little doubt about technologies’ potential to disrupt and transform adolescent mental health, however, we still have some way to go before we realize this potential and progress will require global action. This opinion piece discusses current solutions and their performance, and suggestsions for future directions.

A guide to how parents and carers can help young people communicate safely online about suicide is now available in 11 languages. The #chatsafe for parents and carers guide recognises that many young people will discuss suicide and self-harm online, and that their carers may worry about this.

It was research that drove the need, but audience feedback that has steered the design and content of the Raising Healthy Minds app – a new, free digital tool to help Australian parents, carers and practitioners working with children to better support children’s emotional and social wellbeing. The app is …

This study aims to present the development and design process of a new mental health app for children that targets their emotion regulation abilities. We describe the creation of a new interdisciplinary development framework to guide the design process and explain how each activity informed different app features.

Like it or not, young people use social media all the time to talk about suicide-related thoughts, feelings and behaviours…So rather than to take the view that you shouldn’t talk about suicide on social media, we decided that it was important to develop some safety guidelines for young people who …

MOST is a world-first digital therapy platform that blends online and face-to-face therapy for young people aged 15 to 25. It has been developed by Orygen – Australia’s centre of excellence in youth mental health – and is led by Professor Mario Alvarez-Jimenez, Director Orygen Digital.