Out and about with the Matilda Centre

Location: Sydney, NSW
Date: 19-21 October 2023
Where will Matildas be? Poster and oral presentations
More information is available at the AACBT Website.

• Evaluating the Family and Friends Support Program: A Pilot Study
• Strong and Deadly Futures: partnering with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communitiesn to adopt CBT to prevent drug and alcoohl harm in youth
• Tailored approaches to substance misuse and mental ill-health: adaptions of the PreVenture program
• From mindless to mindful: using an internet-delivered brain training program to reduce social anxiety and hazardous drinking among young people
• Preventing anxiety and hazardous alcohol use among young adults during the COVID-19 pandemic: naturalistic trial of the self-guided Inroads early intervention
• Bi-directional associations between climate distress and psychological distress in young adults: implications for CBT
• Shedding light on a neglected issue: postpartum alcohol use and its predictors among new mothers 
• Do school-based prevention programs impact co-occurring psychological distress and risky alcohol use across adolescence? 
• Making sense of different trends in population-level substance use and emotional concerns: strengthening, staying the same, or decoupling?

Location: Melbourne, Victoria
Dates: 24-25 October 2023
Where is Matildas? Presentations
More information is available at the LGBTIQ+ Conference website.

• Trans women in Australian Community Sport

Location: Melbourne, Victoria
Date: 2-4 November 2023
Where are Matildas? Poster and oral presentations
More information can be found at the AusPATH website.  

• Barriers and facilitators to trans participation in sport and fitness and the impact on mental health: findings from a national Australian community survey
• Access gaps and mental health outcomes associated with gender affirming hormones and surgeries among trans young people aged 14-25 years in Australia
• Substance use among trans, non-binary and gender diverse (trans) youth in Australia: burden, correlates, and motivations

Location: Melbourne, Victoria
Date: 9 November 2023
Where will Matildas be? Oral presentation
More information can be found at the Positive Schools website.

• Universal prevention programs for adolescents targeting substance use

Location: Adelaide, SA
Date: 12-15 November 2023
Where will Matildax be? Posters, oral presentations, booth
More information fournd at the APSAD website.

• Cracks in the Ice: The impacts of a digital toolkit on knowledge and attitudes about crystal methamphetamine 
  
• Clinician attitudes towards psychedelics in treatment of mental health and substance use disorders
  
• The development of Stable Ground, a multi-modal stepped-care approach to address alcohol and other drug use in public sector employees.
  
• Insights into youth vaping from focus groups and the development of the OurFutures program
• Substance use among trans, non-binary and gender diverse (trans) youth in Australia: burden, correlates, and motivations
• The Cormobidity Guidelines will be ready to answer all your questions at an Exhibition Booth
  

Location: Perth
Date: 28 November 2023
Where will Matildas be? Poster and oral presentations
More information can be found on the APMD website.

• Prioritising the voices of young people in mental health and substance use research
• Peer related correlations of adolescent e-cigarette use
• Moderating effects of socioeconomic status and geographical location on the efficacy of the Health4Life intervention 
• Examining the psychometric validity and mental health outcomes associated with school gender and sexuality norms within a whole student cohort of adolescents

Location: Perth
Date: 29 November – 1 December 2023
Where will Matildas be? Poster and oral presentations, symposiums
More information can be found at the SMHR website.  

• Perspectives of young people and school staff on supporting the mental health of students impacted by trauma: “It’s like asking ‘Should schools provide tap water?’ Yes!”. 
  
• Strong & deadly futures: partnering with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities to adapt CBT to prevent drug and alcohol harm in youth
  
• Development of an online brief intervention for alcohol and other drug use in social and emergency services employees.
  
• Symposium: Making sense of diverging population trends in emotional problems and alcohol use across developmental and historical time. Includes:
  • The InterSECT framework: A proposed model for explaining population-level trends in substance use and emotional concerns
    
  • Diverging trends in alcohol use and mental health in Australian adolescents: A cross-cohort comparison of trends in co-occurrence
    
  • Is the association between psychological distress and risky alcohol consumption shifting over time? An age-period-cohort analysis of the Australian population
• Symposium: Mental health at the frontlines: prevalence of mental health conditions, barriers to care and novel treatment modalities for Australia’s emergency service workers
• Internal barriers, external barriers, and bullying experiences among trans, non-binary and gender diverse (trans) people in Australian sport and fitness settings: impacts on mental health and well-being
• Substance use among trans, non-binary and gender diverse (trans) youth in Australia: burden, correlates, and motivations
• Three years on: Longitudinal trajectories, risk and protective factors for young adult mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic