Consider all options for pandemic stress
In spite of many clinical options, people with mental health problems including eating disorders often do not access professional help within the crucial first 12 months […]
Orama Institute for Mental Health and Wellbeing
Help for serious shopaholics
When does excessive buying become a disorder? For the first time, international experts in psychology have built a framework to diagnose Compulsive Buying-Shopping Disorder – promising help […]
Drilling down to the core of personal wellbeing
Researchers at SAHMRI and Flinders University have conducted the largest ever meta-analysis of wellbeing studies from around the world to answer the question, ‘What’s the best […]
New partnership improving mental health services
Ground-breaking mental health research will investigate how South Australians with a lived experience can improve the design and delivery of support services, by underpinning a new […]
Challenge to anorexia nervosa therapies
Experts are calling for more work to find better targeted treatments for anorexia nervosa, a global problem underpinning the highest mortality of any psychological condition A […]
PTSD link to pandemic fears
Even at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic last year, people around the world became more fearful of what could happen to them or their family. […]
Veterans’ program tackles transition into civilian life and social health
A research program at Flinders University will focus on the social health and well being of current ADF personnel and veterans to develop mental health approaches […]
Pandemic demands preventative shift
COVID-19 has exacerbated weaknesses in Australia’s mental health systems, with waiting times soaring to beyond six months in many states, and continuing unemployment combined with diminishing […]
World’s largest eating disorder gene screen
Australian researchers are seeking more than 3,500 volunteers for the world’s largest eating disorders genetics investigation in a bid to further pinpoint genes influencing risk of […]