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Encouraging the positive use of technology through community engagementDescribe a seven stage community engagement process to develop and disseminate community uptake strategies which encouraged cyber safety
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Maternal Pre-pregnancy Body Mass Index and Offspring Temperament and Behavior at 1 and 2 Years of AgeRecent research suggests that fetal exposure to increased maternal body mass index (BMI) during pregnancy may be associated with psychopathology later in life.
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Beyond the reactive-proactive dichotomy: Rage, revenge, reward, and recreational aggression predict early high school bully and bully/victim statusWe discuss the implications of addressing Revenge and Recreation, as well as Reward and Rage aggression motives, for bullying prevention and intervention strategies
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Child-parent agreement on alcohol-related parenting: Opportunities for prevention of alcohol-related harmParent non-supply of alcohol and disapproval of use were most important in terms of associations with ever drinking
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A group randomized controlled trial evaluating parent involvement in whole-school actions to reduce bullyingWhole-school capacity-building intervention in early and middle childhood can improve the likelihood and frequency of positive parent–child communication about bullying
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Motivational interviewing as a positive response to high-school bullyingWe provide a narrative review of Motivational Interviewing and map its core features onto the extant literature on self‐reported motivations for bullying
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Key findings from the second Australian Child and Adolescent Survey of Mental Health and WellbeingThe prevalence of mental disorders in children and adolescents in Australia, and the severity and impact of those mental disorders
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Trends in sugar supply and consumption in Australia: is there an Australian Paradox?High consumption of refined carbohydrate, in particular sugar, has been identified as a possible contributory factor in greater risk of excess weight gain.
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Maternal life stress events in pregnancy link to children's school achievement at age 10 yearsMaternal antenatal exposure to life stress events has differing effects on the school performance of male and female offspring.
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Maternal pre-pregnancy body mass index and internalizing and externalizing problems in offspringExposure to elevated maternal pre-pregnancy BMI is associated with increased levels of internalizing and externalizing problems throughout childhood and...