This chapter delivers an overview of child protection services in Australia and New Zealand.
Both nations' main concern primarily revolves around numerous reports of children at risk …

Limited empirical evidence is available regarding the uptake and effectiveness of school-
based mental health and wellbeing programs implemented in Australian schools. This study …

Abstract Background and Hypothesis Schizotypy provides a framework for understanding
the developmental nature of psychotic disorders and a means of identifying “at-risk” …

Background Children in out-of-home care (OOHC) are generally at increased risk of health
and social adversities compared to their peers. However, the experiences of children in …

Background Maltreated children are at risk of poor educational outcomes, but also
experience greater individual, family, and neighbourhood adversities that may obscure an …

Background Air pollution has been linked to a variety of childhood mental health problems,
but results are inconsistent across studies and the effect of exposure timing is unclear. We …

Though the positive association between a connection to the natural environment and well-
being is well established, few studies have examined this association in children, and none …

Objectives To examine associations between being the subject of child protection reports in
early childhood and diagnoses of mental disorders during middle childhood, by level of …

BackgroundNo single environmental factor is a necessary or sufficient cause of mental
disorder; multifactorial and transdiagnostic approaches are needed to understand the …

This study investigates the measurement invariance of a brief self-report measure of
childhood social-emotional competencies, the Middle Childhood Survey: Social-Emotional …