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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.

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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

Ian Hickie James O'Loghlin

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

Still curious about the Brain and Mind Centre Youth Model of Care? Learn about all the research that helped our team develop this innovative model of personalised and measurement-based care for young people.

Enhancing Research Involvement of Young People With Lived Expertise

Hear from five young people who worked as researchers at the University of Sydney's Brain and Mind Centre about what makes youth involvement in research actually meaningful. Their insights can help organisations genuinely engage young people in research, making it a valuable experience for both the researcher team and the young people themselves.

The Devil You Knew

Ian Hickie The Devil You Knew explores the spectre of depression – what it is, where it comes from and the common myths and misconceptions surrounding it – so we can find our unique path to healing and live fulfilling lives on our own terms.

A User's Guide to the Mind

Ian Hickie James O'Loghlin

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.

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