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View article: Barriers to mental health care and possible solutions in the young: <i>Yarns</i> with the Victorian Aboriginal community
Barriers to mental health care and possible solutions in the young: <i>Yarns</i> with the Victorian Aboriginal community Open
Objective: To identify the barriers accessing health (including mental health) services by Indigenous people in Victoria, Australia, and putative solutions, through yarns with 44 members of the Victorian Aboriginal community. Methods: This…
View article: Country revealing the way: evaluating Elder‐governed cultural therapy for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people with mental health conditions
Country revealing the way: evaluating Elder‐governed cultural therapy for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people with mental health conditions Open
Objectives To assess the effectiveness of an Elder‐governed cultural therapy program for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people with mental health conditions. Study design A cultural therapy program for Aboriginal and Torres St…
View article: Neural and Behavioral Changes in Older Adults from Auditory-Cognitive Training
Neural and Behavioral Changes in Older Adults from Auditory-Cognitive Training Open
Speech perception in noisy environments is a common challenge among older adults, even for those with clinically normal hearing. Cognitive decline may be one of the contributing factors, and, as such, auditory-cognitive training may enhanc…
View article: Development and Validation of an Abbreviated Form of the Cognitive Style Questionnaire
Development and Validation of an Abbreviated Form of the Cognitive Style Questionnaire Open
Background According to the Hopelessness Theory of Depression, a negative cognitive style increases an individual’s vulnerability to depression during stressful life events. The Cognitive Style Questionnaire (CSQ) is a widely used self-rep…
View article: Indigenous Spirituality, Health, and Well-Being in the Young: Yarns With the Victorian Aboriginal Community
Indigenous Spirituality, Health, and Well-Being in the Young: Yarns With the Victorian Aboriginal Community Open
The extant literature has scant detail about everyday spiritual practices that aid Indigenous young people. This paper systematically explores Indigenous Spirituality, health, and well-being through Elder-governed yarns conducted via Zoom …
View article: Exploring the association of Indigeneity, social adversity status and externalizing symptoms in children and adolescents
Exploring the association of Indigeneity, social adversity status and externalizing symptoms in children and adolescents Open
Objective: The relationship between Indigeneity, social adversity status and externalizing symptoms is complex and unclear. This study investigates how Indigeneity, social adversity status and externalizing symptoms are related in young pe…
View article: The Development of Elder-Governed Adjuvant Cultural Therapy for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Young People With Mental Health Conditions
The Development of Elder-Governed Adjuvant Cultural Therapy for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Young People With Mental Health Conditions Open
A 10-year review of the 2008 Council of Australian Governments’ (COAG) Close the Gap Strategy identified the lack of involvement of Indigenous people in developing policies as a key reason health disparities persist. It also posits that di…
View article: Culture, Health and Wellbeing: Yarning with the Victorian Indigenous community
Culture, Health and Wellbeing: Yarning with the Victorian Indigenous community Open
Indigenous young people around the world suffer poorer mental health outcomes than their non-Indigenous counterparts. Currently, how culture matters for health, what cultural practices are used in community to support health and wellbeing,…
View article: Roaming
Roaming Open
There are significant disparities in mental health care between First Nations and non-Indigenous people in settler-colonial nations. This paper, authored by a crosscultural and interdisciplinary team, argues that settler-colonial legislati…
View article: Dissonance, Disagreement, Difference: Challenging Thematic Consensus to Decolonise Grounded Theory
Dissonance, Disagreement, Difference: Challenging Thematic Consensus to Decolonise Grounded Theory Open
Over the past two decades researchers have been exploring new hybrid methodologies to decolonise Indigenous mental health research. Grounded Theory with Community Participatory Action Research (CPAR), often using Indigenist methods, is the…
View article: Country and community vs poverty and conflict: Teasing apart the key demographic and psychosocial resilience and risk factors for Indigenous clinic-referred children and adolescents
Country and community vs poverty and conflict: Teasing apart the key demographic and psychosocial resilience and risk factors for Indigenous clinic-referred children and adolescents Open
Objective: Indigenous young people are known to have adverse demographic and psychosocial factors affecting worse mental health outcomes and some household factors aiding resilience. In Australia, there has been no exploration of these fac…
View article: Analysis of structural brain asymmetries in attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder in 39 datasets
Analysis of structural brain asymmetries in attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder in 39 datasets Open
Objective Some studies have suggested alterations of structural brain asymmetry in attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), but findings have been contradictory and based on small samples. Here, we performed the largest ever analys…
View article: Distinct Neural Profiles of Frontoparietal Networks in Boys with ADHD and Boys with Persistent Depressive Disorder
Distinct Neural Profiles of Frontoparietal Networks in Boys with ADHD and Boys with Persistent Depressive Disorder Open
Working memory deficits are common in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and depression, two common neurodevelopmental disorders with overlapping cognitive profiles but distinct clinical presentation. Multivariate techniques h…
View article: Brain Imaging of the Cortex in ADHD: A Coordinated Analysis of Large-Scale Clinical and Population-Based Samples
Brain Imaging of the Cortex in ADHD: A Coordinated Analysis of Large-Scale Clinical and Population-Based Samples Open
Subtle differences in cortical surface area are widespread in children but not adolescents and adults with ADHD, confirming involvement of the frontal cortex and highlighting regions deserving further attention. Notably, the alterations be…
View article: Measurement invariance of maternal ratings of ADHD symptoms across clinic referred children’s with and without ADHD
Measurement invariance of maternal ratings of ADHD symptoms across clinic referred children’s with and without ADHD Open
The study examined the measurement invariance (configural, metric, scalar, and error variances) and factor mean scores equivalencies of a modified version of the Strengths and Weaknesses of ADHD-Symptoms and Normal Behavior Scale (SWAN-M) …
View article: Conners 3-Parent (Short): Measurement Invariance Across Gender, Concurrent and Discriminant Validities
Conners 3-Parent (Short): Measurement Invariance Across Gender, Concurrent and Discriminant Validities Open
The study examined measurement invariance (configural, factor loadings, thresholds, and error variances), and equivalencies of latent mean scores of the Conners 3-Parent (Short); (C 3-P (S)) across maternal ratings of clinic-referred boys …
View article: A case–control genome-wide association study of ADHD discovers a novel association with the tenascin R (TNR) gene
A case–control genome-wide association study of ADHD discovers a novel association with the tenascin R (TNR) gene Open
It is well-established that there is a strong genetic contribution to the aetiology of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Here, we employed a hypothesis-free genome-wide association study (GWAS) design in a sample of 480 clin…
View article: Correlated Trait–Correlated Method Minus One Analysis of the Convergent and Discriminant Validity of the Conners 3 Short Forms
Correlated Trait–Correlated Method Minus One Analysis of the Convergent and Discriminant Validity of the Conners 3 Short Forms Open
This study used the correlated trait–correlated method minus one model to examine the convergent and discriminant validity of the scales of the Conners 3 Short [C 3 (S)]. The C 3 (S) scales in the analysis were inattention (IN), hyperactiv…
View article: Towards an Aboriginal Knowledge Place: Cultural Practices as a Pathway to Wellness in the Context of a Tertiary Hospital
Towards an Aboriginal Knowledge Place: Cultural Practices as a Pathway to Wellness in the Context of a Tertiary Hospital Open
The Indigenous community in Australia is beset by extraordinary disadvantage, with health outcomes that are substantially worse than those of non-Indigenous citizens. This issue has consequently been the subject of voluminous health resear…