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Come say hi and check out Sasha Bailey (she/her) poster on a lgbt+ inclusive, trauma informed mental health prevention program The Matilda Centre #sprconf23

🚨Hot off the digital presses! Check out this paper from my PhD which found selective personality‐targeted prevention can reduce growth in general psychopathology in adolescents sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

New paper from the WHO World Mental Health Survey consortium, coordinated by John McGrath and Ron C. Kessler Harvard Medical School Age of onset and cumulative risk of mental disorders: a cross-national analysis of population surveys from 29 countries authors.elsevier.com/a/1hVj27tf1d51…

📢HOT OFF THE PRESS – Is the association between psychological distress and risky alcohol consumption shifting over time? An age-period-cohort analysis sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Read on to find out...🧵1/7 The Matilda Centre CIHR #BantingCanada @DrMSunderland

This is the most useful piece I've seen making the case that adolescents can & should be empowered to provide independent consent to take part in research. Tell your IRBs. Push for reform. In youth mental health research, this is a vital equity issue. mdpi.com/2075-471X/12/1…

My favourite thing about this project was thinking about how approaches like HiTOP, network approaches, and clinical staging can fit together and strengthen one another - great to see it in print after a few years in the works!

Super excited to be hiring as part of this NIH funded project with Lindsay Squeglia MUSC Youth Collaborative. We promise great science, support, and fun 😎! Open to Oz & intl applicants with excellent quant skills that we'll apply to large-scale intl datasets. Apply below!!

Today our comprehensive review of the social determinants of #mentalhealth was published in World Psychiatric Association (WPA) wpanet.org World Psychiatry. Our piece reviews the current evidence on causes & prevention, & makes 7 recommendations framed around social justice. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wp… #sdoh

We need to do more to address the stigma around illicit drug use. Great to work on this with Dr Nicole Lee Prof Maree Teesson AC Cath Chapman theconversation.com/meth-use-is-de… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand

NOW online! Clinical Psychological Science Special Issue: Understanding Ethnoracial Disparities and Advancing #MentalHealth Equity Through Clinical Psychological Science journals.sagepub.com/toc/cpx/current Jennifer Tackett

Long-term outcomes from landmark school-based prevention study out now in The Lancet Digital Health. For long-term lasting population impacts, need more than one off programs in adolescence. High-quality, long-term studies essential. More we can do to design for long-term retention.

🧵Our new paper in Nature Mental Health reports the anxiety, depression & psych distress outcomes of Health4Life: a universal school-based intervention targeting modifiable lifestyle behaviours. @K_Champion1 @siobhanmaeve Prof Maree Teesson AC Lauren Gardner Nickie Newton doi.org/10.1038/s44220…

Excited to announce that I've been awarded a CIHR postdoc fellowship! I'll be continuing my work with Conrod Venture Lab at Centre de recherche Azrieli du CHU Sainte-Justine Université de Montréal on youth psychopathology from early childhood to late adolescence.

Read our piece in The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand outlining headline findings from our new paper published TODAY in the Int'l Journal of Mental Health & Addiction Springer Nature Dr Katrina Champion Lauren Gardner The Matilda Centre Sydney Health theconversation.com/new-research-s…

Launched a new HiTOP YouTube channel to host some videos my RA Tash Turner-Cohen and I are working on. We've just posted the first one, which gives a brief overview of some of the limitations of the DSM: youtu.be/4Kwu_1oMD9U

I am accepting undergraduate & graduate students! Reach out to me if you are interested in learning more and/or joining the team 😊 [email protected]

Very excited to share our new pub where we ran 7,680 unique models exploring associations between adolescent alcohol use and emotional problems! bit.ly/4gGIP1o The Matilda Centre Peter Boris Centre McMaster School of Nursing Prof Tim Slade @DrMSunderland

🌟New publication alert🌟 Our article "Social connection as a key target for youth mental health," is out in Mental Health & Prevention! 📄✨authors.elsevier.com/a/1kQLZ7t6PR-2… Prof Tim Slade Aliza Werner-Seidler Dr Lily Davidson Jack Andrews The Matilda Centre #YouthMentalHealth #SocialConnection