Exploring the Experiences of Adolescents with Cardiac Conditions
ICDs significantly extend life expectancy but the psychosocial implications for people who have ICDs are not well understood.
Research
A ground breaking program to assist students who have dyslexia
Success and Dyslexia: sessions for coping in the upper primary years.
Eating disorders in adolescents highlighted in new paper
What nurses need to know about eating disorders, new paper published.
Lapbanding option for obese adolescents raises many issues
Laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding versus intensive behaviourally-based intervention in adolescents with severe obesity.
CAH attended National Schools Disability Stakeholder Forum
Dr. Nola Firth, senior researcher at The Centre for Adolescent Health and a learning disabilities specialist represented CAH at schools diability forum recently.
University of Melbourne academic promotion to CAH staff member
Dr Sarah Drew is now a Senior Reseach Fellow in recognition of her research work and contribution to adolescent health and chronic illness.
You want to see your teen’s medical records, but should you have the right?
Parents want doctors to inform them about a wide range of health and behavioural issues related to their adolescent children, even when their children do not want them to be told.
Breaching Confidentiality with Adolescents: What do Australian Psychologists Think?
Confidentiality and young people paper published in Journal Psychiatry, Psychology and Law.
Dutch research students return home
Radboud University Nijmegen in The Netherlands sent two students to learn from CAH team.
Adolescent fertility and family planning in East Asia and the Pacific: a review of DHS reports
A review of adolescent pregnancy in East Asia and the Pacific.