Leading mental health experts offer advice on how to stay calm amid the coronavirus outbreak. If you’re feeling on edge, you’re not alone. The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared COVID-19 a pandemic. That designation and the spread of the virus across the globe and throughout the United States is causing concern. Schools are closing, events are being cancelled, and the news media releases update upon update, all adding to a building sense...
The Office supports the Children's eSafety Commissioner (the Commissioner) and leads online safety advice and education for the Australian Government and will operate a complaints system so Australian children and young people can report serious cyberbullying....
Rates of depression and anxietyamong young people in America have been increasing steadily for the past 50 to 70 years. Today, by at least some estimates, five to eight times as many high school and college students meet the criteria for a diagnosis of major depression and/or anxiety disorder as was true half a century or more ago....
Children who know stories about relatives who came before them show higher levels of emotional well-being, according to Emory University researchers who analyzed dinner time conversations and other measures of how well families work....
Cannabis is the most commonly used illicit drug in Australia, with one in three adults using it at some point in their life. It’s legal in some places around the world, and offered medicinally in others. But what does smoking pot do to your mental health? The potential harms associated with using cannabis depend on two things above all others. The first is the age at which you first begin to use...