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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
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
🌏 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
📢 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”
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#PuPProgram #ChildProtection #EvidenceBasedPractice
September 28, 2025 at 11:47 PM
🌟 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
‍🚨 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
🚨Global collab out now! People with mental illness die 13–15 years earlier, mostly due to physical health conditions. Lifestyle interventions work — now it's time to focus on implementation and equity. 📰👇
doi.org/10.1016/S221...
Congrats to our own co-author @justinjchapman.bsky.social 👏
August 15, 2025 at 7:06 AM
🧠 New review by Kate Freeman & @Prof Lara Farrell explores how tech & parent-led care are transforming treatment for youth #OCD!
📉 Barriers to CBT-ERP remain high—but multi-tech parent training shows 70–75% response rates with less cost, travel & time.
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August 11, 2025 at 6:22 AM
📢 Suicide rates in Brazil are rising—especially among Indigenous peoples & adolescents.
A systematic review (2019–2024) highlights urgent gaps in care, research, & training. Collab of Luiza Wille Augustin, @griffith.edu.au's Prof Kairi Kõlves & Pamela Rinozi.
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August 8, 2025 at 1:50 AM
🎉 Happening this week: Building Safer, Smarter Cities!
Join @griffith.edu.au's Dr Dominique De Andrade, ARC DECRA Awardee, as she shares how linking health & crime data reveals new insights into nightlife harm 🌃 & supports smarter, place-based interventions.
#SmartCities #HealthResearch #CrimeData
July 22, 2025 at 10:56 AM
👏 Congrats to Prof Tamara Ownsworth for convening #NRSIG2025🧠 Researchers, clinicians & consumers came together to explore neuropsych rehab from the lab to the clinic. PhD candidate @stephreeve.bsky.social, w supervsn from A/Prof @Matthew Gullo, presented in #MentalHealth Datablitz session!👏
July 18, 2025 at 2:36 AM
🚨Update from @griffith.edu.au's MRFF #MOVEMENT Study. Protocol paper led by @justinjchapman.bsky.social is out now! Exercise can boost quality of life for people with severe mental illness—but many face real barriers - this study explores how to help. Read more👇
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July 16, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Huge congrats to @griffith.edu.au's Prof Sharon Dawe & the dedicated team on 12 more months of funding for its Child Development Clinic (Logan) and its Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (#FASD) Assessment & models of care! Vital early assessment for young kids+clinician training = powerful impact.👏
July 16, 2025 at 6:45 AM