How to find good health-related mobile apps
Overview: Apps on our mobile phones can help us develop the knowledge, skills and habits necessary to build and sustain our physical and mental health. But […]
Archive Tag: mental health
Encouraging you to sign up to Oasis Online
You probably aren’t aware of this (and you don’t necessarily need to be), but the same people that run Health, Counselling and Disability Services (HCDS) […]
Student led event on wellbeing, mental health and study/life balance - 19th...
I am a big fan of students taking charge of leading events that help other students. I think such events tend to be better attended and […]
10 pieces of advice for PhD students (which are probably ok for other stude...
I was fortunate the other day to spend 90 minutes with some relatively new PhD students talking about mental health. I must have enjoyed it […]
Digital resources for your mental health
Update 8/4/21 – Added in a link to a similar factsheet from eMHPrac crew. Sometimes when you are feeling down, you just want the sweet […]
The power of networking
I was fortunate last week to have an extended teleconference call with Dr Andrew McClelland. Andrew is a Senior Lecturer on Mental Health for the […]
A headspace centre has opened at Marion
One of the intake team just let me know that a new headspace centre has opened at Marion. ‘headspace Marion is a free and confidential […]
Early usage of mental health services improves higher education students’...
This is a quick but important one. The boss forwarded me an interesting factsheet from the Department of Education, Skills and Employment (that is probably […]
Smartphone use and mental health
I just finished reading an interesting article over on The Conversation on smartphone use and mental health. I recommend giving it a read, but I’ll […]
The Festival of Now - South Australia's annual mental health and wellbeing ...
Just got another interesting thing in my email (must be the day for it). If you don’t have anything much happening Friday, consider tuning in. […]
Out of Hours Supports worth noting
The difficult moments in life don’t always occur conveniently between the hours of 9-5, Monday to Friday. But that is when most support services and […]
An example of a mental fitness workout
I got to spend a really cool hour with some dietetics masters students yesterday. We did a ‘mental fitness workout’. And I thought I’d share […]
Nutrition and mental health: 6 tips to create a healthy mind as a universit...
I love it when we get student posts for the blog! This one is from Serena Hodge, a Master of Nutrition and Dietetics student on […]
Pathways to wellbeing
Over the past month I’ve been lucky to have been involved in the delivery and refinement of the Be Well Plan – https://www.bewellplan.com/, a facilitated […]
Just tell me how to have a good life already!
In my line of work I come across a lot of ‘wellbeing frameworks’. A wellbeing framework is simply how an individual or organisation or group […]