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Griffith Centre for Mental Health
@griffithcmh.bsky.social
Committed to mental health research and innovation, focusing on youth mental health, parenting and suicide prevention.
📣 Report out now! Beyond the Squeaky Wheel explores the Family/Carer Lived Experience Workforce in QLD’s mental health system. Key findings + recommendations for reform. Congrats to @griffith.edu.au & #ALIVE colleagues on this report to improve #mentalhealth 4 Q'landers🙌
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November 14, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Reposted by Griffith Centre for Mental Health
Two days left to contribute to research that centres what people actually need, not what researchers assume.

Anxiety doesn't follow a neat schedule, and neither does the relationship between social media and sleep.
November 7, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Here’s why people with mental illness die, on average, 11 years earlier than other Australians
theconversation.com/heres-why-pe...
Great work from @justinjchapman.bsky.social with Russell Roberts & Victoria Erskine in @theconversation.com 👏 @griffith.edu.au
Here’s why people with mental illness die, on average, 11 years earlier than other Australians
The life expectancy gap is due largely to preventable health issues, not suicide.
theconversation.com
November 4, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Our members have returned from #AACBT25 after sharing cutting-edge #CBT research for diverse minds 🌏🧠
🔹FAST parent training for youth OCD
🔹Online tools for anxiety & sleep
🔹Insights on perfectionism, pain & clinician training
Thanks to all who made it possible !🙌
@griffith.edu.au
November 4, 2025 at 3:00 AM
🪖 Understanding Suicide Risk in Military Contexts
New research led by Prof Kairi Kõlves maps 97 risk & 63 protective factors using insights from lived experience, clinicians & researchers.
💡 The most actionable were workplace-related
📖 Read more: doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...
October 29, 2025 at 6:54 AM
📣 New study explores Sleep Interventions for Children with FASD 💤
The pilot found:
✅Feasible trial design
✅ Melatonin potentially reduced sleep onset latency & bedtime resistance
🤝 Future trials need multi-site collaboration
👏 Congrats to #GCMH co-authors 🔗https://doi.org/10.1111/jpc.70224
October 27, 2025 at 1:03 AM
🔦 Research Spotlight
Dr @justinjchapman.bsky.social presented at #MSAMHS Research Symposium last wk. Presenting on a partnership initiative designed to centre people with lived experience in mental health reform and improve the use of evidence for real world impact. 👏 #QMHW Connect for Mental Health
October 21, 2025 at 12:13 AM
🧠 Are you involved in suicide prevention work or research?
Prof Kairi Kõlves is leading a study on Implementation Research and Practice in Suicide Prevention.
If you're a:
• Researcher
• Lived experience advocate
• Practitioner/clinician
• Policymaker
you’re invited to take part👇
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October 11, 2025 at 10:20 PM
🧠World Mental Health Day #WMHD2025
🗨️‘Connect with your community’ highlights the vital role of relationships & support networks. Collaboration is central to GCMH research—connecting with universities,community partners, practitioners & #livedexperience to drive impact & advocate for better #MH care!
October 9, 2025 at 9:08 PM
🌟 Keeping Lived Experience at the centre 🌟
This #QMHW, let’s keep #LivedExperience central to suicide prevention.
🎤 #NSPC26 (28–30 Apr, ICC Sydney) is a vital space for connection & change.
💰 Bursaries available: tinyurl.com/454vh4f5
🗓️ Apply by 2 Nov 2025.
Let’s connect for mental health! 💙
Bursaries - National Suicide Prevention Conference 2026
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October 6, 2025 at 9:53 PM
🌏 Coming up - World Mental Health Day - 10 October! #WMHD2025
🔗Theme: Connect with your community
💬 World Mental Health Day is a chance for communities & mental health professionals to highlight the importance of mental health & advocate for better global access to care.
@griffith.edu.au
October 5, 2025 at 12:37 AM
🎉 It’s Queensland Mental Health Week!
🧠 Connect for Mental Health
📅 4–12 October 2025
This #QMHW, let’s celebrate connection, raise awareness & take steps toward better mental wellbeing. At GCMH, connection, esp with #LivedExperience, drives our multidisciplinary research! 💚
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October 4, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Reposted by Griffith Centre for Mental Health
Supporting young people means understanding how they think, learn and process the world around them.

These free Orygen resources are designed to help clinicians understand and support cognition in youth mental health, and you can find them here: bit.ly/48ybzs7
September 30, 2025 at 6:44 AM
📢 New publication!
👏 Congrats to @griffith.edu.au's Prof Sharon Dawe & Dr Paul Harnett on their recent publication “Challenges & Solutions for Disseminating Evidence-Based Practice in Child Protection: The PuP Program”
🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.ps...

#PuPProgram #ChildProtection #EvidenceBasedPractice
September 28, 2025 at 11:47 PM
🌟 Welcome Dr Daniel Sullivan! 🌟
Dan joins @griffith.edu.au as a Lecturer in Clinical Psychology. Check out his recent publication in @theconversation.com 👇
A big, convulsive twitch while dozing off? Sleep experts explain the ‘hypnic jerk’ theconversation.com/a-big-convul...
#SleepScience
A big, convulsive twitch while dozing off? Sleep experts explain the ‘hypnic jerk’
As we transition from wakefulness to sleep, the nervous system winds down and muscles relax. Sometimes, the brain misinterprets what’s happening.
theconversation.com
September 23, 2025 at 3:44 AM
🌟 Welcome Dr Eleni Kalantidou! 🌟
We’re excited to welcome Eleni to the #GCMH team. A design psychology leader & researcher, her work focuses on community-led behavioural change and climate adaptation.
🎤 Catch her @adaptationfutures.bsky.social #AF2025 in Christchurch in October!👏 @griffith.edu.au
September 17, 2025 at 4:45 AM
👋Welcome Dr Levi Fox to #GCMH!
Levi brings a PhD in Māori spirituality, frontline mental health experience & a passion for Indigenous youth wellbeing. He joins us to help achieve a collective vision of wellness through meaningful, robust research.👏
#YouthMentalHealth #Research @griffith.edu.au
September 16, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Welcome Dr Kathy Ryan to GCMH! 👋
An existing @griffith.edu.au lecturer & researcher, Dr Ryan brings expertise in parenting, child anxiety & personalised CBT. She joins us as a research fellow across several exciting projects. We're thrilled to have her on board! 🌟 #MentalHealth #YouthMentalHealth
September 15, 2025 at 2:26 AM
New paper from @griffith.edu.au's A/Prof Kerryn Pike
+ BRAINS team!
Telehealth adaptation of LaTCH rehab shows promise for people with primary brain tumour (#PBT). A 6-wk Zoom-based prgrm improved memory ability, satisfaction & strategy use.👏
📰https://doi.org/10.1093/noajnl/vdaf182
September 12, 2025 at 7:48 AM
📢#TheMHS2025
🎤GCMH-led symposiums featured research on evidence-based care, child & family support, & wellbeing in brain tumour care.
Huge congrats to prog co-convenor Prof Lara Farrell+ @griffith.edu.au researchers, #livedexperience leaders, & student volunteers who made an impact.👏
#MentalHealth
September 8, 2025 at 4:57 AM
📢Next Week at #BIBS25!
Prof Tamara Ownsworth — Hopkins Centre Research Director and @griffith.edu.au's CMH member — has played a key role in coordinating the symposium program and will be in action on the day, chairing a session on Enriching Environments! 👇 www.hopkinscentre.edu.au/bibs25sympos...
August 28, 2025 at 2:33 AM
🎤Last wk-Dr @justinjchapman.bsky.social & Dr Meg Doohan represented GCMH at the #BrisbaneMentalHealthConference. Insightful talks on building alliances between #MentalHealth researchers & service providers and whether hormones influence cognitive test reliability👏Congrats to all involved!
August 25, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Why are young men ‘T maxxing’ testosterone? Do they need it? And what are the risks? Read more in @theconversation.com 👉 theconversation.com/why-are-youn...
Co-authored by @griffith.edu.au's @piatkowskitim.bsky.social
Why are young men ‘T maxxing’ testosterone? Do they need it? And what are the risks?
T maxxing offers a compelling narrative: raise your testosterone, upgrade your life. But if you don’t have clinically low testosterone, there are health risks.
theconversation.com
August 19, 2025 at 7:39 AM
‍🚨 People with #psychosis are at higher risk of chronic diseases linked with low exercise, so should we be doing fitness screening in mental health services?🏃‍♀️ For an overview of some challenges and opportunities 👇
doi.org/10.1016/j.ge...
@justinjchapman.bsky.social
August 18, 2025 at 8:59 AM