Recent contributions in the media from Simon and his team

Adolescent Issues

Channel 9 Today Show – Troubled Teens
Channel 9 Today Show – Exam Stress
Channel 7 Sunrise show – Kids Growing up Too Fast
ABC Radio 774 – Children Taking Risks Helps Their Development
Cleo magazine – Me, Myself and I
The Age Interview: How Might the Royal Commission Affect Survivors of Child Abuse?
The Age Opinion – Learning to Take Risks is an Essential part of Growing Up
The Age – ‘Risk Illiteracy’ Among the Young and Reckless
The Age – The Brat Factor (The effect of ‘fame culture’ on youth)
The Age Opinion – Kids Party, Parents Get a Hang Over
The Age – Beyond the Binge
The Age Opinion – Don’t Force Kids to Grow up Early
Sydney Morning Herald – Cyber Intimidation and the Art of Bullying
The Conversation – Self Harm: What is it, and why do people do it?

Channel 7 The Morning Show – Sad Dads: Postnatal Depression in Fathers
ABC Unleashed (Opinion) – Parenting in a Celebrity Mad World
Melbourne Mothers Matter – Monsters in the Closet (parent’s role in dealing with anxiety)
Wonder Time magazine June 2009 (by Emma Lund) – How to Nurture Bickering Siblings
The Herald Sun – Ageless Love
ABC Radio National – Abandoned Baby Sparks Debate
The Herald Sun – And Baby Makes Three
Good Health Magazine – Are We Over-Parenting Our Children?

The Herald Sun – The Good Wife Stands Firm
Teacher Advice
Victorian Institute of Teaching: Professional Practice journal – The Many Faces of Trauma
Teacher Magazine – samples of ‘Dr Simon Says…’ column
Psychological First Response
ABC Radio – Psychological First Response for Teenagers interview
Adventure Psychology and Wilderness Adventure Therapy
ABC Radio National – The Age of Adventure [radio streaming / download]
ABC-TV The 7.30 Report – Adventure Therapy
The Age – Rapid Growth for Troubled Teens
InPsych (Bulletin of the Australian Psychological Society) – Taking a Risk for Adolescents
The Age – Looking for trouble

Reigning in binge drinking: The Age Opinion Kids Party, Parents Get a Hang Over (03/08)
Parenting in a celebrity mad world: ABC The Drum – Unleashed (11/09)
How to teach risk-taking: The Age ‘Risk Illiteracy’ Among the Young and Reckless (07/09)
Importance of risk & challenges for youth: spress Risky Solo Sail Raises Concern (11/09)
The need to teach kids to take risks: The Age Opinion Learning to Take Risks is an Essential part of Growing Up (5/10)
Confident children: Good Health magazine Are We Over-Parenting Our Children? (7/10)
New Year’s resolutions – The Conversation The New Year – A good time for change? (1/12)

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Getting Real: Challenging the Sexualisation of Girls – Aust. book by Melinda Reist (Ed.)
Patricia & Don Edgar – social researchers on the changing landscape of childhood
Problems of electronic technology on healthy development – The Advertiser newspaper
How vital outdoor education is to healthy development – Sydney Morning Herald
Children & Nature Network – research and advocacy for children connecting with nature
Sports culture brings out the worst in people – The Age Opinion – Chris Middendorp
Parenting is the key to avoid ‘Affluenza’ in children – The Age
Free Range Kids and the importance of balanced parenting – YouTube video clip
Outdoor play linked to psychological health in children – Sydney Morning Herald
Over-medicalisation of childbirth – The West Australian newspaper
The Lost Adventures of Childhood (compelling documentary trailer) – Beyond Productions
Medical pressure is the cause of high cesarean birth rate – The Conversation
Religion for Atheists – The Conversation
The vital importance of maternal physical contact in infancy – Elizabeth Antunovic
Manipulating the evidence for medication effectiveness: A case study – The Conversation
Tavi Gevinson on being a teenage feminist – TED talk
The real importance of, and best approach to breast-feeding – The Conversation
The much under-appreciated value of learning through nature – George Monbiot

Kurt Hahn – founder of Outward Bound
InPsych Bulletin – article on parents’ influence on adolescent drinking
Prof. Martin Seligman – research leader in Positive Psychology
Quackwatch – guide to quackery and health fraud
Psychology in the Public Interest – Australian Psychological Society
Social transmission of “happiness” – article form the British Medical Journal
Factors that ensure happiness lie in our life choices – The Australian newspaper
Contact with nature improves psychological health – M. Townsend – Beyond Blue to Green
Many myths of Psychiatry: Why Antidepressant don’t work – New York Review of Books
Why digital interactions are no substitute for in-person contact – The Conversation
The need to humanise birth in Australia – Birth International
The ‘War on Drugs’ that we never had to have – The Conversation
We’re all indoctrinated – so be aware of how! – The Conversation