Mental Health Awareness by Carolden https://padlet.com/accounts14/75iepd8dlhlc Mental Health as 'wellness' rather than 'illness' en-us 2017-04-25 07:15:53 UTC 2025-02-26 13:47:18 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Apple.png YOUTH MENTAL HEALTH accounts14 https://padlet.com/accounts14/75iepd8dlhlc/wish/168068640 In Australia, the prevalence of mental health problems among children aged 4-12 years is at most 14 percent (based on parental reports; Sawyer, Arney, Baghurst et al, 2000), which rises to 19 percent among adolescents aged 13-17 years (Sawyer et al, 2000) and increases again to 27 percent among young adults aged 18-24 (McLennan, 1997). Based on these figures, approximately one in four to five young Australians are likely to suffer from a mental health problem, most commonly substance abuse or dependency, depression, anxiety and eating disorders (Australian Institute of Health & Welfare: AIHW, 2003). Comorbidity (particularly substance abuse disorders) is unfortunately the norm in this population (AIHW, 2003). High rates of disability are associated with mental disorders among young people (McLennan, 1997), including impaired work productivity, absenteeism, educational failure and poor family functioning. The Victorian Burden of Disease Study reinforces the seriousness of this problem, demonstrating that for young people aged 15-24 years, mental disorders are the single greatest cause of years of healthy life lost (Public Health Group, 2005).

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On this page you'll find a series of mental wellbeing podcasts or audio guides you can listen to in your own time, in private, to help you through times when your mood is low or you're feeling anxious.

Each audio guide gives you simple, common-sense advice on what you can do to boost your mood.  
The Moodzone audio guides are:
http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/stress-anxiety-depression/Pages/moodzone-mental-wellbeing-audio-guides.aspx

]]> 2017-04-25 12:28:08 UTC https://padlet.com/accounts14/75iepd8dlhlc/wish/168076437 Avalon painter says art has helped her recovery from eating disordersRod Bennett, Manly DailyJanuary 23, 2017 1:55pmSeven years ago, Avalon’s Natasha Burbury was hospitalised with anorexia, the lowest ebb in her fight against the crippling illness.But it was art therapy that helped her recover and move forward with life.“I had bulimia and anorexia,” Ms Burbury bravely revealed.“These diseases are often described as ‘voices’ in the mind, which aren’t your own.“I’ve taken those voices a step further to give them a visual representation.“My work is those voices in a visual form. The scenes I have created on the canvas are what I see.”Natash Burbury's WorkShe has also created a solo exhibition called Relapse or Reconnecting, comprising a collection of art directly related to her recovery.Her exhibition, which celebrates art’s ability to provide healing, opens in Mona Vale on February 3.Burbury, 25, said her problem began in about 2000 and that she battled with mental health issues for most of her schooling.“I used art when I was eventually coming out of that long process,” she said.“I feel I am well on the way to recovery now.”Natasha Burbury says art has helped her fight this illness.Professional art therapist Lena Wegenaar, of Queenscliff, said using art as a healing tool provided a channel for creativity, dealing with harmful events or memorable experiences.Ms Wegenaar, who ran Safe Space Art Therapy & Counselling, said art therapy could help provide deep-rooted expression.“If someone is holding something in, then art can bring it out,” she said.“And by putting it down on paper there is something for the individual to look at.”She said art therapy in Australia was recognised as successful in dealing with the complexities of living and recovering from an eating disorder.“I know of people who have benefited from this as the only way they could ‘find a voice’ for their experience,” she said.However, the College of Fine Arts graduate said the meaning of her symbolic work was not immediately obvious to viewers.She used circular patterns in her work to represent the cycles of illness. Another, with repetitive images, was a mountain, to represent climbing.She said works in the exhibition would be accompanied by a piece of text, from which viewers could draw their own correlations.Viewers can draw their own correlations.Ms Wegenaar said the therapist and the client worked together.“The therapist’s role is to help a client become aware of the symbols – and then unpack them to find their meanings,” she saidHealing is about taking away all the shame.”“For me it’s about having a dialogue about the artwork between the client and the therapist.”Burbury believed that while many of the taboos surrounding mental illness had been overcome, there still existed a stigma around eating disorders.“The point of the exhibition is to raise awareness of art as therapy,” she said. “And if a conversation opens up then that would be wonderful.” accounts14 https://padlet.com/accounts14/75iepd8dlhlc/wish/169844702 2017-05-04 05:10:34 UTC https://padlet.com/accounts14/75iepd8dlhlc/wish/169844702 accounts14 https://padlet.com/accounts14/75iepd8dlhlc/wish/169844863
]]> 2017-05-04 05:12:36 UTC https://padlet.com/accounts14/75iepd8dlhlc/wish/169844863 Can Art Be Medicine? accounts14 https://padlet.com/accounts14/75iepd8dlhlc/wish/169857020 2017-05-04 07:06:20 UTC https://padlet.com/accounts14/75iepd8dlhlc/wish/169857020 Teen Mental Health accounts14 https://padlet.com/accounts14/75iepd8dlhlc/wish/169865416 2017-05-04 08:05:55 UTC https://padlet.com/accounts14/75iepd8dlhlc/wish/169865416 Art Without Barriers accounts14 https://padlet.com/accounts14/75iepd8dlhlc/wish/170679798 2017-05-09 06:58:28 UTC https://padlet.com/accounts14/75iepd8dlhlc/wish/170679798 Raising awareness for mental health through art accounts14 https://padlet.com/accounts14/75iepd8dlhlc/wish/170681395 2017-05-09 07:09:26 UTC https://padlet.com/accounts14/75iepd8dlhlc/wish/170681395 Art Therapy - Helping Children with Mental Health Problems accounts14 https://padlet.com/accounts14/75iepd8dlhlc/wish/170681724 2017-05-09 07:11:41 UTC https://padlet.com/accounts14/75iepd8dlhlc/wish/170681724 accounts14 https://padlet.com/accounts14/75iepd8dlhlc/wish/170682128 2017-05-09 07:14:34 UTC https://padlet.com/accounts14/75iepd8dlhlc/wish/170682128 CSIRO: Health Promotion accounts14 https://padlet.com/accounts14/75iepd8dlhlc/wish/170683123 I found this site extremely informative.]]> 2017-05-09 07:21:06 UTC https://padlet.com/accounts14/75iepd8dlhlc/wish/170683123 Artwork to Understand Mental Health accounts14 https://padlet.com/accounts14/75iepd8dlhlc/wish/171188532 2017-05-11 08:30:30 UTC https://padlet.com/accounts14/75iepd8dlhlc/wish/171188532 accounts14 https://padlet.com/accounts14/75iepd8dlhlc/wish/171189542 2017-05-11 08:35:28 UTC https://padlet.com/accounts14/75iepd8dlhlc/wish/171189542 accounts14 https://padlet.com/accounts14/75iepd8dlhlc/wish/171189720 2017-05-11 08:36:16 UTC https://padlet.com/accounts14/75iepd8dlhlc/wish/171189720 accounts14 https://padlet.com/accounts14/75iepd8dlhlc/wish/171189823 2017-05-11 08:36:44 UTC https://padlet.com/accounts14/75iepd8dlhlc/wish/171189823 Famous Artists Who Suffered with Mental Health accounts14 https://padlet.com/accounts14/75iepd8dlhlc/wish/171190261 I have written about many of these artists when I had to do my essays when studying for my diploma for Art Appreciation 2016.  Interesting to know that how art helped sooth her minds]]> 2017-05-11 08:38:54 UTC https://padlet.com/accounts14/75iepd8dlhlc/wish/171190261 accounts14 https://padlet.com/accounts14/75iepd8dlhlc/wish/171194235 2017-05-11 09:00:13 UTC https://padlet.com/accounts14/75iepd8dlhlc/wish/171194235 accounts14 https://padlet.com/accounts14/75iepd8dlhlc/wish/172508316 2017-05-18 07:52:12 UTC https://padlet.com/accounts14/75iepd8dlhlc/wish/172508316 WHY THIS MATTERS TO ME accounts14 https://padlet.com/accounts14/75iepd8dlhlc/wish/172728243 As art curator for the project, it will be my job to organise an art competition in self expression, along with an art exhibition from an emerging artist and to coordinate a  self expression art workshop and art display by youths, in order to showcase the aesthetic of art and wellbeing.  ]]> 2017-05-19 05:01:07 UTC https://padlet.com/accounts14/75iepd8dlhlc/wish/172728243