Tag: Mental Health
Helping children through distressing media coverage
Media reporting of distressing events involving children can be upsetting for your child or student but a gentle conversation with you can provide much-needed...
Looking up in lockdown
We’ve just had R U OK? Day and, as lockdown seems to lag on, I think we’ve all become pretty familiar with having the...
The Grizzlies: Story of salvation through sport will inspire
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Mental health training for teachers welcomed
Catholic Schools New South Wales has welcomed moves to strengthen mental health training for teachers
In response to the “youth suicide contagion” and rising levels...
Trans activist: Serious concern over child re-assignment surgery
Medical transition is for adults writes transgender man Scott Newgent in criticism of child gender re-assignment surgery
Anxiety Overload
Eli is eight years old. He has been diagnosed with depression. And, like it is for anyone with this diagnosis, depression is a daily...
The Girl on the Bridge Review: Pushing back the darkness
After losing her close friend Jess to suicide 3 years ago, New Zealand film graduate Jazz Thornton felt it was important to tell Jess’s...
Your Life, Your Way: Self help for teens
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Kevin Donnelly: Resilience in the face of 2020
With God’s love and grace it is possible to find comfort and reassurance
Simcha Fisher: Mental Health according to Mel Brooks
A classic comedy is an unlikely treasure trove of wisdom
You know the phrase "It's never your successful friends posting the inspirational quotes?" This is...
The Grizzlies Review: Hope-filled teacher brought light into dark
Director Miranda de Pencier’s drama The Grizzlies (Northwood Entertainment) tells the inspiring true story of a town that suffered the highest suicide rate in...
Supporting a child who’s being bullied
80 per cent of Australian students say that bullying is present in some form at their school, according to a recent study, showing that...
