Griffith Centre for Mental Health

Flyer for a study titled "Capacity Building Needs for Implementation Research and Practice in Suicide Prevention", led by Griffith University and the University of Melbourne. It invites researchers, clinicians, lived experience advocates, and policymakers to participate in two short online activities (approx. 60 minutes total). The study aims to identify training needs for applying implementation science in suicide prevention. Participation is voluntary and anonymous. QR codes are included for more info and to join. Logos of Griffith University, LIFEWAYS Project, and the Australian Institute for Suicide Research appear at the bottom. QR code links to: https://t.co/70wIC7xy9f

🧠 Are you involved in suicide prevention work or research?
Prof Kairi Kõlves is leading a study on Implementation Research and Practice in Suicide Prevention.
If you're a:
• Researcher
• Lived experience advocate
• Practitioner/clinician
• Policymaker
you’re invited to take part👇
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Promotional graphic for World Mental Health Day, 10 October 2025. Purple background with abstract shapes. Top features the Mental Health Australia logo and text: “TODAY IS World Mental Health Day! 10.10.2025.” Below, green hashtag reads “#CONNECTWITHYOURCOMMUNITY.” Bottom shows illustrated diverse people painting and talking, symbolising community connection.

🧠World Mental Health Day #WMHD2025
🗨️‘Connect with your community’ highlights the vital role of relationships & support networks. Collaboration is central to GCMH research—connecting with universities,community partners, practitioners & #livedexperience to drive impact & advocate for better #MH care!

🌟 Keeping Lived Experience at the centre 🌟
This #QMHW, let’s keep #LivedExperience central to suicide prevention.
🎤 #NSPC26 (28–30 Apr, ICC Sydney) is a vital space for connection & change.
💰 Bursaries available: tinyurl.com/454vh4f5
🗓️ Apply by 2 Nov 2025.
Let’s connect for mental health! 💙

Blue graphic with Mental Health Australia logo. White text reads “Connect with your MP to take action for mental health.” Green hashtag #WMHD2025. Illustration shows a person using a laptop with an envelope icon flying out, symbolising emailing an MP to advocate for mental health.

🌏 Coming up - World Mental Health Day - 10 October! #WMHD2025
🔗Theme: Connect with your community
💬 World Mental Health Day is a chance for communities & mental health professionals to highlight the importance of mental health & advocate for better global access to care.
@griffith.edu.au

Poster for Queensland Mental Health Week (4–12 Oct 2025) with the theme “Connect for mental health” and icons for self, community, others, and nature.

🎉 It’s Queensland Mental Health Week!
🧠 Connect for Mental Health
📅 4–12 October 2025
This #QMHW, let’s celebrate connection, raise awareness & take steps toward better mental wellbeing. At GCMH, connection, esp with #LivedExperience, drives our multidisciplinary research! 💚
🔎 tinyurl.com/396kxmxz

Well done!

Creating Safer Injecting Practices Through Community‐Led Harm Reduction: Lessons From People Who Use Steroids for the Alcohol and Other Drug Sector Introduction Research on anabolic–androgenic steroid (AAS) use has addressed health outcomes, social dynamics, service access and risk management strategies. Yet little work has examined how these d...

New collab in @apsad-dar.bsky.social shows people who inject steroids still lack clear guidance. Peer-led approaches could change that.

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Supporting young people means understanding how they think, learn and process the world around them.

These free Orygen resources are designed to help clinicians understand and support cognition in youth mental health, and you can find them here: bit.ly/48ybzs7

Top of the article on the Parents Under Pressure program, exploring evidence-based support for families in child protection.

📢 New publication!
👏 Congrats to @griffith.edu.au's Prof Sharon Dawe & Dr Paul Harnett on their recent publication “Challenges & Solutions for Disseminating Evidence-Based Practice in Child Protection: The PuP Program”
🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.ps...

#PuPProgram #ChildProtection #EvidenceBasedPractice

A big, convulsive twitch while dozing off? Sleep experts explain the ‘hypnic jerk’ As we transition from wakefulness to sleep, the nervous system winds down and muscles relax. Sometimes, the brain misinterprets what’s happening.

🌟 Welcome Dr Daniel Sullivan! 🌟
Dan joins @griffith.edu.au as a Lecturer in Clinical Psychology. Check out his recent publication in @theconversation.com 👇
A big, convulsive twitch while dozing off? Sleep experts explain the ‘hypnic jerk’ theconversation.com/a-big-convul...
#SleepScience

Headshot of Dr Eleni Kalantidou. She has long brown hair, with a fringe and is wearing a collared button up khaki shirt.

🌟 Welcome Dr Eleni Kalantidou! 🌟
We’re excited to welcome Eleni to the #GCMH team. A design psychology leader & researcher, her work focuses on community-led behavioural change and climate adaptation.
🎤 Catch her @adaptationfutures.bsky.social #AF2025 in Christchurch in October!👏 @griffith.edu.au

Headshot of Dr Levi Fox. He is wearing a dark button up shirt with a subtle floral pattern. He is wearing glasses & is smiling.

👋Welcome Dr Levi Fox to #GCMH!
Levi brings a PhD in Māori spirituality, frontline mental health experience & a passion for Indigenous youth wellbeing. He joins us to help achieve a collective vision of wellness through meaningful, robust research.👏
#YouthMentalHealth #Research @griffith.edu.au

Headshot of Dr Kathy Ryan. She has shoulder length blonde hair, blue eyes & she's smiling. She's wearing a sage green top.

Welcome Dr Kathy Ryan to GCMH! 👋
An existing @griffith.edu.au lecturer & researcher, Dr Ryan brings expertise in parenting, child anxiety & personalised CBT. She joins us as a research fellow across several exciting projects. We're thrilled to have her on board! 🌟 #MentalHealth #YouthMentalHealth

Screenshot of the top of the article reading: Journal Article Accepted manuscript A randomised controlled trial of a telehealth group cognitive intervention (LaTCH-BRAINS) to improve cognition after primary brain tumour diagnosis Open Access Kerryn E Pike BRAINS program, Sian E B Virtue-Griffiths BRAINS program, Rachel Campbell BRAINS program, Dianne M Legge BRAINS program, Katarzyna Lion BRAINS program, Carl I Moller BRAINS program, Tamara Ownsworth BRAINS program, Mark B Pinkham BRAINS program, Louise SalibaBRAINS program, Ursula M Sansom-Daly BRAINS program, Dean Vuksanovic BRAINS program, Joanne Shaw BRAINS program, Haryana M Dhillon BRAINS program Neuro-Oncology Advances, vdaf182, https://doi.org/10.1093/noajnl/vdaf182

New paper from @griffith.edu.au's A/Prof Kerryn Pike
+ BRAINS team!
Telehealth adaptation of LaTCH rehab shows promise for people with primary brain tumour (#PBT). A 6-wk Zoom-based prgrm improved memory ability, satisfaction & strategy use.👏
📰https://doi.org/10.1093/noajnl/vdaf182

Group shot Griffith Uni presenters in front of TheMHS green signage. L-R: Katarzyna Lion, Kerryn Pike, Amanda Wheeler, Erinn Hawkins, Justin Chapman, Allison Waters & Matthew Gullo

Montage of photos. Photo 1 - 3 shot of Haryana Dillon, Katarzyna Lion & Kerryn Pike in front of TheMHS conference hero image. Green background "Envisioning 2050". Photo 2: Donna Humphrey in front of TheMHS logo background. Photo 3: Tim Piatkowski in front of digital signage for TheMHS conference

Vicky Stewart & Helena Roennfeldt presenting on a stage. On the stage above their heads is a large screen with a Griffith University branded slide on display.

Erinn Hawkins presenting.

📢#TheMHS2025
🎤GCMH-led symposiums featured research on evidence-based care, child & family support, & wellbeing in brain tumour care.
Huge congrats to prog co-convenor Prof Lara Farrell+ @griffith.edu.au researchers, #livedexperience leaders, & student volunteers who made an impact.👏
#MentalHealth

Bold ideas, better solutions 2025 - The Hopkins Centre Symposium. "Identity & Participation" Tues 2 Sep 9am - 5pm. Translational Research Institute, Princess Alexandra Hospital. Headshots of Prof Louise, Gustafsson, Prof Tamara Ownsworth & Prof Tim Geraghty.

📢Next Week at #BIBS25!
Prof Tamara Ownsworth — Hopkins Centre Research Director and @griffith.edu.au's CMH member — has played a key role in coordinating the symposium program and will be in action on the day, chairing a session on Enriching Environments! 👇 www.hopkinscentre.edu.au/bibs25sympos...

🎤Last wk-Dr @justinjchapman.bsky.social & Dr Meg Doohan represented GCMH at the #BrisbaneMentalHealthConference. Insightful talks on building alliances between #MentalHealth researchers & service providers and whether hormones influence cognitive test reliability👏Congrats to all involved!

Why are young men ‘T maxxing’ testosterone? Do they need it? And what are the risks? T maxxing offers a compelling narrative: raise your testosterone, upgrade your life. But if you don’t have clinically low testosterone, there are health risks.

Why are young men ‘T maxxing’ testosterone? Do they need it? And what are the risks? Read more in @theconversation.com 👉 theconversation.com/why-are-youn...
Co-authored by @griffith.edu.au's @piatkowskitim.bsky.social

‍🚨 People with #psychosis are at higher risk of chronic diseases linked with low exercise, so should we be doing fitness screening in mental health services?🏃‍♀️ For an overview of some challenges and opportunities 👇
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🚨Global collab out now! People with mental illness die 13–15 years earlier, mostly due to physical health conditions. Lifestyle interventions work — now it's time to focus on implementation and equity. 📰👇
doi.org/10.1016/S221...
Congrats to our own co-author @justinjchapman.bsky.social 👏

Working Together to Understand the Priority Needs of Multicultural Community Leaders in Queensland, Australia Australia is one of the most diverse countries in the world. The effective engagement and recognition of multicultural communities, including community leaders, is increasingly imperative. Communit...

📣 Out now! New publication with our partner #ECCQ highlighting the priorities & needs of multicultural leaders for serving their communities.
They call for accessible culturally informed training, cross-community collabs, genuine partnerships, and fair funding.📰 Read more 👇
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Top of article in the journal, Psychiatric Clinics of North America. Avail online 5 August 2025. Title reads: Multi-technology Parent Training in Exposure and Response Prevention for Youth with Obsessive-Compulsive disorder.

🧠 New review by Kate Freeman & @Prof Lara Farrell explores how tech & parent-led care are transforming treatment for youth #OCD!
📉 Barriers to CBT-ERP remain high—but multi-tech parent training shows 70–75% response rates with less cost, travel & time.
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📢 Suicide rates in Brazil are rising—especially among Indigenous peoples & adolescents.
A systematic review (2019–2024) highlights urgent gaps in care, research, & training. Collab of Luiza Wille Augustin, @griffith.edu.au's Prof Kairi Kõlves & Pamela Rinozi.
🔗 doi.org/10.3390/ijer... #AISRAP

🎉 Happening this week: Building Safer, Smarter Cities!
Join @griffith.edu.au's Dr Dominique De Andrade, ARC DECRA Awardee, as she shares how linking health & crime data reveals new insights into nightlife harm 🌃 & supports smarter, place-based interventions.
#SmartCities #HealthResearch #CrimeData

👏 Congrats to Prof Tamara Ownsworth for convening #NRSIG2025🧠 Researchers, clinicians & consumers came together to explore neuropsych rehab from the lab to the clinic. PhD candidate @stephreeve.bsky.social, w supervsn from A/Prof @Matthew Gullo, presented in #MentalHealth Datablitz session!👏

🚨Update from @griffith.edu.au's MRFF #MOVEMENT Study. Protocol paper led by @justinjchapman.bsky.social is out now! Exercise can boost quality of life for people with severe mental illness—but many face real barriers - this study explores how to help. Read more👇
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Huge congrats to @griffith.edu.au's Prof Sharon Dawe & the dedicated team on 12 more months of funding for its Child Development Clinic (Logan) and its Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (#FASD) Assessment & models of care! Vital early assessment for young kids+clinician training = powerful impact.👏

More about @griffith.edu.au's Prof Caroline Donovan & team's win in the Cogniss Priority Digital Health Challenge and the development of the Lights Out sleep app👏
@9news.bsky.social #Sleeptraining #Familysupport #LightsOut
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Who won at the Priority Digital Health Challenge? | Health Services Daily The winners are two Aussie researchers who are harnessing digital innovation to help sleep-deprived toddlers and nutrition-challenged families.

🥳Congrats to Prof Caroline Donovan & team, 1 of only 2 winners in the Priority Digital Health Challenge!👏Learn about their aim to build an evidence-based app targeting childhood sleep problems👇
www.healthservicesdaily.com.au/who-won-at-t...
@griffith.edu.au @amazonwebservices.bsky.social #Cogniss

Gum disease, decay, missing teeth: why people with mental illness have poorer oral health Poor mental health can lead to poor oral health – and vice versa. Here’s what can be done to tackle this problem.

Read more about @griffith.edu.au's research on why people with mental illness have poorer oral health and how we can do more to address this issue! theconversation.com/gum-disease-...