Frank Iorfino

The challenges we face in society today demand us to build a more robust mental health system that responds to peoples needs. We think that this should be centred on digital innovations to respond to demand and reach the scale needed.

Read more in my recent @croakeynews.bsky.social piece.

Five priorities for the Albanese Government to transform Australia’s mental health system

Five priorities for the Albanese Government to transform Australia’s mental health system www.croakey.org/five-priorit... #publichealth

Rethinking how we deliver mental health care Enhanced access to specialised care leads to better outcomes, but its realisation in practice requires us to challenge traditional notions of how mental health care is delivered.

A recent study by our team (lnkd.in/gCtkbweT) challenges the status quo about how best to allocate our resources to deliver mental health care to young people.

📖 Read more about it in my recent substack post.

AI and scaling expertise for better mental health care Showcasing the Mental health Intelligence Agent (Mia) at ViVE 2025

I wrote a new substack post about the work we are doing with AI and scaling expertise for better mental health care. I presented this work recently at the ViVE 2025 conference in Nashville.

open.substack.com/pub/frankior...

Mental healthcare needs structural reform, not Band-Aid solutions

Mental healthcare needs structural reform, not Band-Aid solutions https://www.croakey.org/mental-healthcare-needs-structural-reform-not-band-aid-solutions #publichealth

Mental healthcare needs structural reform, not Band-Aid solutions Introduction by Croakey: Researchers have cautioned against the use of "Band-Aid solutions" to the current crisis in public psychiatry in

NSW’s public mental health system is in crisis—psychiatrists are resigning, and hospitals are overwhelmed. This isn't just about pay. It’s about the system’s failure to innovate and use smart tech for reform.

Read more in our piece for @croakeynews.bsky.social

www.croakey.org/mental-healt...

Social media bans don't address youth mental health problems » Eiko Fried I co-wrote this piece with the fantastic Margarita Panayiotou, Senior Lecturer at the University of Manchester who’s work focuses on psychometrics, measurement, social media & adolescent mental health...

In light of Australia’s social media ban, here a brief reminder why bans do not address the core issues they are meant to solve, w @margaritap.bsky.social.

eiko-fried.com/social-media...

Are you a Brain and Mind Centre member/researcher, or one of our collaborators/stakeholders?

#MultidisciplinaryResearch #USYD

Here's a list to get you started - we will add to it down the track!

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Celebrating another big year with the team that make it all possible. I’m so grateful to have the support of so many talented people who make it a joy to come to work every day.

Hello! It looks better here so I think I'll stay - I'm a Psychologist (Sports Reg) and Senior Lecturer at Uni Melbourne. My research is mostly focused on supporting mental health in high performance environments (elite & youth sport; performing arts), with an emphasis on compassion-based approaches

Our child and adolescent mental health starter pack is full!

Click through to find 149 great accounts, plus me.

Want to join? Think I’ve missed someone? Let me know and I’ll get going on a start a second pack!

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For all things psychiatry, psychology and mental health. Message below if you’d like to be added to the starter pack! go.bsky.app/C36fgiD

Can I please be added? 😁

The Guardian Weekend podcast

This was a bit of a surprise, since I wasn't asked or told (I don't mind though!): my article about teenage love is read out in this Guardian podcast

so if you like listening to things rather than reading them, you can hear the article starting at 44m 44s

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Do Therapists Know When Their Clients Deteriorate? An Investigation of Therapists' Ability to Estimate and Predict Client Change During and After Psychotherapy In routine outcome monitoring, psychotherapists receive feedback from their clients about their self-reported progress during therapy. This practice is based on research indicating that therapists ov....

More evidence that "therapists cannot rely on their clinical judgement alone to assess client progress and outcomes and will depend on routine outcome monitoring to detect client deterioration".

Tempting, and the tea breaks would be quite helpful.

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The joys of having to work on a grant application while it’s a beautiful day outside.

This starter pack for child and adolescent mental health is continuing to grow! It’s wonderful finding people here.

Please do let me know if you think there is someone (including you!) that could be added.

go.bsky.app/KSGUBYg

People saying that starter packs should be actually useful: I hear you! From now accounts on the starter pack will be people who post mental health research related content regularly. If I haven't added you: I'm sure you are a nice person doing great research.

go.bsky.app/MfWbYvP

For those interested in a break from regular academic programming, this was a (not so) fun exercise/revelation…

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has reviewer 2 considered that I’m trying my best

Best social media innovation of 2024: a platform that is exactly like another was 5 years ago

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Mega-thread of 50 psychology-related starter packs!

Click here and scroll up! bsky.app/profile/mark...

#Psychology #AcademicSky #EduSky 🧪

We don't have an official presence here yet, but here are a collection of people doing interesting research and teaching at the University of Sydney.

Sydney people, I thought it would be nice for us to connect. Let me know if I've missed you :)

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Nice one Tara. Happy to be added to this one.

If it were possible to exactly predict the future it would not be possible to change it, it is good we live in a universe that has some inherent non-determinism and our future is not determined until it happens

Bluesky now has over 20M people!! 🎉

We've been adding over a million users per day for the last few days. To celebrate, here are 20 fun facts about Bluesky:

I recently gave a talk for World Mental Health day about youth mental health and digital technologies.

Here is a brief summary of this talk for those who might not have a spare 45 minutes to watch the full video.

Link to blog and video: open.substack.com/pub/frankior...

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Hey Cheri, I would love to be added to this one too. Thanks!