Itβs Book Week but your child is too anxious to take part. 5 expert tips to save the day
You stayed up all night to make a Book Week costume β but now your child wonβt wear it. In fact they donβt want to go at all. Here are some ideas to try.
Worried your child might feel overwhelmed by the upcoming Book Week (16-23 August cbca.org.au/childrens-bo...)? ππππ€
Clinical psychologist Dr. Frances Doyle offers 5 evidence-based tips to gently support anxious kids:
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Sincere congratulations to two of our school's postdoctoral researchers, Dr. Cathy Macpherson and Dr. Roslyn Wong, who have each been successfully awarded MQ Lighthouse Fellowships starting in 2026!Β
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Idea to impact: how the Macquarie Incubator is powering the next generation of entrepreneurs
Student Startup Success! π
Georgia Muriti used her passion for mental health & the power of the MQ Incubator program to launch *Welv* β a platform helping people find the right psychologist. π‘Bold ideas, real impact. #Startups #MentalHealth #StudentSuccess
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π Which anxiety treatments work best for older adults?
π7x more likely to recover with CBT (54%)
π2x more likely with meds (36%) (vs controls)
π¬ We found 13 definitions of βtreatment responseβ - messy!
π Open access: bit.ly/3ZRZ6KP
π Please share!
#Anxiety #OlderAdults #ClinPsy #MentalHealth
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Congratulations to Samantha Curtis for winning the best student presentation prize at the just finished EPC and APCV joint conference. Her talk title was βPriming the distractor reduces the Stroop interference effect by uncoupling the color and word.β
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Overview: Based at Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia), we are a team of researchers focused on the intersection between psychology and crime, especially eyewitness memory, jury decision-making, and wrongful convictions
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Professor of Clinical Psychology, Director of the Lifespan Health and Wellbeing Research Centre at Macquarie University. Interests mental health across the lifespan, healthy ageing
Weβre a group of Sydney-based researchers who are passionate about reading science!
See https://www.readingsciencegeeks.com/ for our projects, publication, and more importantly, upcoming research talks and discussions (every fornightly in a hybrid mode)!
Learned Society based in the UK.
We organise three scientific meetings + four funding rounds per year.
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Cultural evolution, delusions, metascience, misinformation, reasoning, and religion. Macquarie University, Sydney. (Google Scholar: https://tinyurl.com/5f2udu5p)
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An online-only journal publishing Reviews, Perspectives & Comments across psychology, its applications & societal implications. Tweets from the editors. https://www.nature.com/nrpsychol/
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A/Prof and Clinical Psychologist at Macquarie University, Australia. Deputy Director at Macquarie University Lifespan Health and Wellbeing Research Centre. Researching mechanisms and treatment of #anxiety in #children and #older adults. #geropsych
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