adolescents

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Artificial intelligence can help to identify risk factors for suicide and self-harm, according to new research from UNSW Sydney.

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The COVID-19 pandemic has had serious and lasting negative impacts on children’s and adolescents’ mental health.

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Adolescents who had more and more blackouts each year had a much higher risk of developing severe alcohol problems.

Children and adolescents with mental illness facing hospitalisation

UNSW Sydney contributes to guidelines which indicate when children and adolescents should be treated in psychiatric hospitals.

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The number of at-risk adolescents in drug and alcohol treatment programs who reported taking methamphetamines doubled in the five years to 2014, new research shows. 

Internet porn

There is emerging evidence that internet pornography is strongly associated with risky sexual behaviour among adolescents, according to a review from UNSW's Kirby Institute.