Youth-centred resources & info
to help you understand your mental health care.
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The Lived Experience Lab is our online space for sharing the research we do at the Brain and Mind Centre through a lived experience lens. It’s about connection, collaboration, and showing what meaningful youth co-production can look like. Check out our posts here or follow us on Instagram or LinkedIn to be a part it.
Blog by the Lived Experience Lab
Lived experience is a powerful kind of expertise. Drawing on their own journeys, our lived experience researchers are sharing practical tips, tricks, and strategies to help you support your mental health, or the mental health of someone you care about.
Coping with Receiving a Mental Health Diagnosis
Being told you have a mental health diagnosis can feel overwhelming, confusing, or even relieving all at once. If you’re wondering what it really means for you, you’re not alone. Tara shares her experience here.
Self Care Hacks
Self-care sounds great in theory but finding what actually works for you can be tricky. Zoe shares the tips that have made self-care feel more manageable for her.
Seeking Support for the First Time
Seeking mental health support can look different for everyone. Tara shares her own experiences and suggestions about where and how to seek help, what you can expect when you reach out, and how to speak to family and friends about getting help.
The Mental Health Spectrum
The mental health spectrum is a way you can view mental health as a continuum which ranges from what thriving to struggling looks like for you. Hear from Tara about how she experiences fluctuations in her mental health day-to-day and what she does when she knows she needs more support.
Supporting the Mental Health of Those Around You
Supporting others can take many forms. Importantly, there’s no single right way to support someone with their mental health. Zoe shares her insights and practical suggestions as to how you can support someone with their mental health while also being sure to take care of yourself.
Your Body Clock
Your body clock is your own personal timekeeper. It helps keep your body running on a 24-hour cycle. The body clock has a big impact on all the functions of the body, including your mental health. Learn here from our researchers and lived experience team about strategies to look after your body clock.
In the media
Our team shares what we know about youth mental health far beyond academia. Here you’ll find interviews, articles and media appearances where we talk about our research and how young people can get the right support.
It’s all about bringing our work to life and making it useful to everyone, especially young people!
Antidepressants less effective for many living with atypical depression, new study finds
Antidepressants failing many people, major study reveals
What happened when we tested a 'safe' AI mental health chatbot
Queer youth at risk of losing mental health support access in social media ban
Link between depression and unexplained jet lag symptoms discovered in new Australian study
For many people with acute mental illness, ‘hospital in the home’ means living well in the community
The Minding Your Mind Podcast
New episodes weekly
The Minding Your Mind podcast is all about the different types of mental health issues we can experience, their causes, how they affect us, and what we can do to get help and find solutions.
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Books, Publications & Reports
Dive into the ideas and insights behind our research! From our team’s published research to Professor Ian Hickie’s books (written for anyone interested in mental health), these resources showcase our team’s work and how science meets real-life.
Minding Your Mind
Written with compassion and curiosity, warmth and humour, Minding Your Mind is for anyone who wants the best for their mental well-being but might not know the best way to get there. It’s a check-up for everything happening between the ears and through the body, flagging the warning signs when things get wobbly and offering a pathway to a more fulfilling life.
Right care, first time: a highly personalised and measurement-based care model to manage youth mental health
Enhancing Research Involvement of Young People With Lived Expertise
The Devil You Knew
A User's Guide to the Mind
An empowering book that examines the key moments in our mental health journey – from the first search for identity and belonging, through to our most important relationships, our hopes and ambitions, and inevitable times of crisis. The result is a practical guide that will put you on a path to deeper happiness, better relationships and a life of greater meaning.
Youth Perspectives on ‘Highly Personalised and Measurement-Based Care’
Learn about how the clinical education and participant information program for the Brain and Mind Centre Youth Model of Care was co-designed directly with and for young people. Young people reported they found this process empowering as the developed a better understanding of the value of personalised mental health care.
Clinician resources
Our team has developed a suite of educational resources to support mental health clinicians in delivering high-quality, personalised, measurement-based care for young people. These resources are designed to assist clinicians in applying the Minding Your Mind youth model of care within their own practice.
Clinician Guide
The ultimate goal of this clinician guide is to assist mental health professionals (MHPs) in providing high quality, person-centred care for young people, aligned to the latest emerging evidence in youth mental health.
8-part Seminar Series
Putting young people at the centre of care. A series of education and training online seminars to help upskill youth mental health professionals in the delivery of the BMC Youth Model of Care.
