Adi Palguna
@adipalguna.bsky.social
Research Officer at Monash University. Championing child and youth mental health.
Views and opinions are mine.
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Adi Palguna
@adipalguna.bsky.social
· Jun 21
Kita Bersama (We Are Together): Reducing Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Impact Induced Mental Health Issues in Indonesian Youth
Kita Bersama (We Are Together) is a youth-led and youth-centred project that aims to prevent and reduce the mental health impacts of ACEs of peer and family violence among Indonesian youth.
www.monash.edu
Excited to share that my colleagues and I at Monash University, Indonesia have launched a new youth mental health project! This initiative is the result of a shared commitment to addressing youth mental health issues in Indonesia. Click the link below to learn more about the project.
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An excellent summary of my PhD student’s work looking at young men’s help seeking. Conclusion is that we need greater clarity, connection, and compassion. And maybe tasteful and stylish mullets?
healthymale.org.au/health-artic...
healthymale.org.au/health-artic...
How can young men seek help, effectively?
For young men seeking help, using the principles of clarity, connection, and compassion can be an effective guide for communication
healthymale.org.au
November 25, 2025 at 9:54 PM
An excellent summary of my PhD student’s work looking at young men’s help seeking. Conclusion is that we need greater clarity, connection, and compassion. And maybe tasteful and stylish mullets?
healthymale.org.au/health-artic...
healthymale.org.au/health-artic...
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Google's notebookLM (notebooklm.google) generated this infographic (in ~1 min) about a recent paper: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
It isn't perfect, but it is a solid start. It feels like lots of journals' promotions/media departments won't last long with this...
It isn't perfect, but it is a solid start. It feels like lots of journals' promotions/media departments won't last long with this...
November 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Google's notebookLM (notebooklm.google) generated this infographic (in ~1 min) about a recent paper: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
It isn't perfect, but it is a solid start. It feels like lots of journals' promotions/media departments won't last long with this...
It isn't perfect, but it is a solid start. It feels like lots of journals' promotions/media departments won't last long with this...
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75% of mental illnesses begin in childhood.
We need a breakthrough for the 1 in 5 children affected. But without research, it's just guesswork as to the solution.
MQ invests in scientific research to help people like Flo whose childhood was impacted by mental illness.
youtu.be/IoMzbXjxfP0?...
We need a breakthrough for the 1 in 5 children affected. But without research, it's just guesswork as to the solution.
MQ invests in scientific research to help people like Flo whose childhood was impacted by mental illness.
youtu.be/IoMzbXjxfP0?...
We Need Research, Because Childhood Shouldn’t Hurt
YouTube video by MQ Mental Health Research
youtu.be
November 24, 2025 at 12:10 PM
75% of mental illnesses begin in childhood.
We need a breakthrough for the 1 in 5 children affected. But without research, it's just guesswork as to the solution.
MQ invests in scientific research to help people like Flo whose childhood was impacted by mental illness.
youtu.be/IoMzbXjxfP0?...
We need a breakthrough for the 1 in 5 children affected. But without research, it's just guesswork as to the solution.
MQ invests in scientific research to help people like Flo whose childhood was impacted by mental illness.
youtu.be/IoMzbXjxfP0?...
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How childhood trauma affects our ability to understand minds 🧩
New review finds that childhood neglect is consistently linked to weaker mentalisation, especially in psychosis. Abuse shows mixed results, but the overall pattern spans diagnoses.
🧵 THREAD
#ChildhoodTrauma #Mentalisation
New review finds that childhood neglect is consistently linked to weaker mentalisation, especially in psychosis. Abuse shows mixed results, but the overall pattern spans diagnoses.
🧵 THREAD
#ChildhoodTrauma #Mentalisation
November 24, 2025 at 7:41 AM
How childhood trauma affects our ability to understand minds 🧩
New review finds that childhood neglect is consistently linked to weaker mentalisation, especially in psychosis. Abuse shows mixed results, but the overall pattern spans diagnoses.
🧵 THREAD
#ChildhoodTrauma #Mentalisation
New review finds that childhood neglect is consistently linked to weaker mentalisation, especially in psychosis. Abuse shows mixed results, but the overall pattern spans diagnoses.
🧵 THREAD
#ChildhoodTrauma #Mentalisation
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The Co-design for Behaviour Change Network invites you to their next online talk by Dr Siobhán O’Connor (KCL) on 'How to do digital health co-design: Insights from a mixed methods systematic review and online methods toolkit'.
📅 17 Dec 2025, 1–2pm
👉 Register: forms.office.com/pages/respon...
📅 17 Dec 2025, 1–2pm
👉 Register: forms.office.com/pages/respon...
November 24, 2025 at 9:22 AM
The Co-design for Behaviour Change Network invites you to their next online talk by Dr Siobhán O’Connor (KCL) on 'How to do digital health co-design: Insights from a mixed methods systematic review and online methods toolkit'.
📅 17 Dec 2025, 1–2pm
👉 Register: forms.office.com/pages/respon...
📅 17 Dec 2025, 1–2pm
👉 Register: forms.office.com/pages/respon...
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Our latest publication exploring the value of virtual worlds for supporting youth mental health care. These digital platforms have unique affordances that could boost access, quality and effectiveness for youth people, though caveats remain. www.mdpi.com/2813-2084/4/...
www.mdpi.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Our latest publication exploring the value of virtual worlds for supporting youth mental health care. These digital platforms have unique affordances that could boost access, quality and effectiveness for youth people, though caveats remain. www.mdpi.com/2813-2084/4/...
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Concepts of person-centred and consumer-directed care challenge traditional ways in which #mentalhealth care is conceived and is delivered. Here we discuss tensions - theoretical, legislative and cultural- plus ways to address them across the system. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
November 22, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Concepts of person-centred and consumer-directed care challenge traditional ways in which #mentalhealth care is conceived and is delivered. Here we discuss tensions - theoretical, legislative and cultural- plus ways to address them across the system. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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I can't wait to read this upcoming book by @globalhealing.bsky.social
Empire of Madness
He argues that much of what we diagnose as mental illness is a rational response to oppression and structural violence caused by colonialism and racial capitalism
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/725148...
Empire of Madness
He argues that much of what we diagnose as mental illness is a rational response to oppression and structural violence caused by colonialism and racial capitalism
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/725148...
November 21, 2025 at 10:25 PM
I can't wait to read this upcoming book by @globalhealing.bsky.social
Empire of Madness
He argues that much of what we diagnose as mental illness is a rational response to oppression and structural violence caused by colonialism and racial capitalism
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/725148...
Empire of Madness
He argues that much of what we diagnose as mental illness is a rational response to oppression and structural violence caused by colonialism and racial capitalism
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/725148...
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New Publication in Crisis journal. Here we review and map the current literature base for trauma-informed approaches to suicide prevention across all levels of prevention, settings, and population groups. econtent.hogrefe.com/doi/10.1027/...
November 21, 2025 at 12:04 PM
New Publication in Crisis journal. Here we review and map the current literature base for trauma-informed approaches to suicide prevention across all levels of prevention, settings, and population groups. econtent.hogrefe.com/doi/10.1027/...
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Want to find other mental health and addiction researchers? Or are you keen for others to find you? Check out our interactive #mentalhealth researchers map! #putyourselfonthemap and #buildanetwork 📍 🗺
mentalhealthresearch.org.uk/mental-healt...
mentalhealthresearch.org.uk/mental-healt...
November 21, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Want to find other mental health and addiction researchers? Or are you keen for others to find you? Check out our interactive #mentalhealth researchers map! #putyourselfonthemap and #buildanetwork 📍 🗺
mentalhealthresearch.org.uk/mental-healt...
mentalhealthresearch.org.uk/mental-healt...
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FPH’s Global Violence Prevention SIG invites members to register for an online webinar, where guest speakers from local authorities, charities and academia will discuss interventions to prevent youth violence.
Register via our website www.fph.org.uk/events-cours...
Register via our website www.fph.org.uk/events-cours...
Violence Prevention in Youth Populations
In this online webinar, the Global Violence Prevention SIG invites welcomes four speakers from local authorities, charities and academia to discuss interventions to prevent youth violence.
www.fph.org.uk
November 21, 2025 at 9:23 AM
FPH’s Global Violence Prevention SIG invites members to register for an online webinar, where guest speakers from local authorities, charities and academia will discuss interventions to prevent youth violence.
Register via our website www.fph.org.uk/events-cours...
Register via our website www.fph.org.uk/events-cours...
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How is air pollution in childhood linked to mental ill-health later in life?
We’ve supported recent research suggesting that policies to reduce children’s exposure to air pollution may help reduce depression in early adulthood.
Read the full publication here: mentalhealth.bmj.com/content/28/1...
We’ve supported recent research suggesting that policies to reduce children’s exposure to air pollution may help reduce depression in early adulthood.
Read the full publication here: mentalhealth.bmj.com/content/28/1...
Childhood exposure to particulate matter and nitrogen oxides and associations with mental health disorders in early adulthood: testing mediation by cognition in a UK longitudinal cohort study
Background Little is known about the mechanisms underlying associations between air pollution exposure in childhood and mental health disorders in adulthood.Objective To examine the prospective associ...
mentalhealth.bmj.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:03 PM
How is air pollution in childhood linked to mental ill-health later in life?
We’ve supported recent research suggesting that policies to reduce children’s exposure to air pollution may help reduce depression in early adulthood.
Read the full publication here: mentalhealth.bmj.com/content/28/1...
We’ve supported recent research suggesting that policies to reduce children’s exposure to air pollution may help reduce depression in early adulthood.
Read the full publication here: mentalhealth.bmj.com/content/28/1...
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Join the EXPAND research team for a seminar exploring how we can better support ethnic minority young people and their parents to access healthcare support for neurodevelopmental disorders
📅9th December 12:30-13:30
💻Online via Teams
🎟️Free
More info: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/db3571...
📅9th December 12:30-13:30
💻Online via Teams
🎟️Free
More info: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/db3571...
November 20, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Join the EXPAND research team for a seminar exploring how we can better support ethnic minority young people and their parents to access healthcare support for neurodevelopmental disorders
📅9th December 12:30-13:30
💻Online via Teams
🎟️Free
More info: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/db3571...
📅9th December 12:30-13:30
💻Online via Teams
🎟️Free
More info: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/db3571...
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📢 Research Opportunity!
Are you:
➡️ A parent/carer of a neurodivergent young adult aged 18-25?
➡️ A mental health professional working with neurodivergent young adults?
We’re studying depression in neurodivergent young adults from diverse racial backgrounds.
📩 [email protected]
🔽 More info
Are you:
➡️ A parent/carer of a neurodivergent young adult aged 18-25?
➡️ A mental health professional working with neurodivergent young adults?
We’re studying depression in neurodivergent young adults from diverse racial backgrounds.
📩 [email protected]
🔽 More info
November 12, 2025 at 2:25 PM
📢 Research Opportunity!
Are you:
➡️ A parent/carer of a neurodivergent young adult aged 18-25?
➡️ A mental health professional working with neurodivergent young adults?
We’re studying depression in neurodivergent young adults from diverse racial backgrounds.
📩 [email protected]
🔽 More info
Are you:
➡️ A parent/carer of a neurodivergent young adult aged 18-25?
➡️ A mental health professional working with neurodivergent young adults?
We’re studying depression in neurodivergent young adults from diverse racial backgrounds.
📩 [email protected]
🔽 More info
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Co-production – an increasingly common indicator of good and relevantly informed research. However, it should be more than a buzzword thrown around to ensure the right box is ticked🚨✔ – a belief both ReThink and ReSET strongly hold.
Speaking Across Lines: Young People Shaping Mental Health Research
I am a current PhD student at UCL and Research Fellow with the UK Trauma Council. I was previously a Research Assistant working on the Adolescence Mental Health and the Developing Mind (AMHDM)…
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November 11, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Co-production – an increasingly common indicator of good and relevantly informed research. However, it should be more than a buzzword thrown around to ensure the right box is ticked🚨✔ – a belief both ReThink and ReSET strongly hold.
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📢 New paper alert
Our new study in JAACAP Open explores how adolescents’ executive function relates to their mental health and wellbeing over time: doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...
Our new study in JAACAP Open explores how adolescents’ executive function relates to their mental health and wellbeing over time: doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...
November 10, 2025 at 2:21 PM
📢 New paper alert
Our new study in JAACAP Open explores how adolescents’ executive function relates to their mental health and wellbeing over time: doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...
Our new study in JAACAP Open explores how adolescents’ executive function relates to their mental health and wellbeing over time: doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...
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Don't miss our upcoming webinar on Youth Priorities in Suicide and Self-Harm Prevention Research — exploring key priorities, gaps, and opportunities to shape future youth prevention research.
📅 12 Nov, 20:00 NZDT (UTC+13)
🔗 https://bit.ly/43B9IQ0
📅 12 Nov, 20:00 NZDT (UTC+13)
🔗 https://bit.ly/43B9IQ0
November 10, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Don't miss our upcoming webinar on Youth Priorities in Suicide and Self-Harm Prevention Research — exploring key priorities, gaps, and opportunities to shape future youth prevention research.
📅 12 Nov, 20:00 NZDT (UTC+13)
🔗 https://bit.ly/43B9IQ0
📅 12 Nov, 20:00 NZDT (UTC+13)
🔗 https://bit.ly/43B9IQ0
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It’s grad school application season, and I wanted to give some public advice.
Caveats:
-*-*-*-*
> These are my opinions, based on my experiences, they are not secret tricks or guarantees
> They are general guidelines, not meant to cover a host of idiosyncrasies and special cases
Caveats:
-*-*-*-*
> These are my opinions, based on my experiences, they are not secret tricks or guarantees
> They are general guidelines, not meant to cover a host of idiosyncrasies and special cases
November 6, 2025 at 2:55 PM
It’s grad school application season, and I wanted to give some public advice.
Caveats:
-*-*-*-*
> These are my opinions, based on my experiences, they are not secret tricks or guarantees
> They are general guidelines, not meant to cover a host of idiosyncrasies and special cases
Caveats:
-*-*-*-*
> These are my opinions, based on my experiences, they are not secret tricks or guarantees
> They are general guidelines, not meant to cover a host of idiosyncrasies and special cases
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Teen social hierarchies aren’t just playground politics – they can shape mental health and may even be linked to self-harm.
Understanding these networks could help us better support young people.
Read more from Holly Crudgington ⬇️
Understanding these networks could help us better support young people.
Read more from Holly Crudgington ⬇️
How teen friendships may predict self harm
It isn’t just social isolation that’s a risk factor for self harm.
theconversation.com
November 3, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Teen social hierarchies aren’t just playground politics – they can shape mental health and may even be linked to self-harm.
Understanding these networks could help us better support young people.
Read more from Holly Crudgington ⬇️
Understanding these networks could help us better support young people.
Read more from Holly Crudgington ⬇️
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Here’s why people with mental illness die, on average, 11 years earlier than other Australians
theconversation.com/heres-why-pe...
Great work from @justinjchapman.bsky.social with Russell Roberts & Victoria Erskine in @theconversation.com 👏 @griffith.edu.au
theconversation.com/heres-why-pe...
Great work from @justinjchapman.bsky.social with Russell Roberts & Victoria Erskine in @theconversation.com 👏 @griffith.edu.au
Here’s why people with mental illness die, on average, 11 years earlier than other Australians
The life expectancy gap is due largely to preventable health issues, not suicide.
theconversation.com
November 4, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Here’s why people with mental illness die, on average, 11 years earlier than other Australians
theconversation.com/heres-why-pe...
Great work from @justinjchapman.bsky.social with Russell Roberts & Victoria Erskine in @theconversation.com 👏 @griffith.edu.au
theconversation.com/heres-why-pe...
Great work from @justinjchapman.bsky.social with Russell Roberts & Victoria Erskine in @theconversation.com 👏 @griffith.edu.au
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🎻 Do hobbies protect against adolescent substance misuse?
A new study says yes – but are we mistaking correlation for causation?
Before we start fiddling with interventions, let’s look closer…
#YouthMentalHealth #SubstanceMisuse #Arts #Culture #Music #Prevention #Epidemiology
🧵 THREAD
A new study says yes – but are we mistaking correlation for causation?
Before we start fiddling with interventions, let’s look closer…
#YouthMentalHealth #SubstanceMisuse #Arts #Culture #Music #Prevention #Epidemiology
🧵 THREAD
November 4, 2025 at 7:41 AM
🎻 Do hobbies protect against adolescent substance misuse?
A new study says yes – but are we mistaking correlation for causation?
Before we start fiddling with interventions, let’s look closer…
#YouthMentalHealth #SubstanceMisuse #Arts #Culture #Music #Prevention #Epidemiology
🧵 THREAD
A new study says yes – but are we mistaking correlation for causation?
Before we start fiddling with interventions, let’s look closer…
#YouthMentalHealth #SubstanceMisuse #Arts #Culture #Music #Prevention #Epidemiology
🧵 THREAD
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🚨 Calling #statisticians #trialists and those working in #healthdata & #PublicHealth
Join our two-day conference on the latest and most important developments in cluster randomised trials & stepped-wedge designs
🗓️ 18-19 November
📍 Birmingham | Online
Sign up 🔽
www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...
Join our two-day conference on the latest and most important developments in cluster randomised trials & stepped-wedge designs
🗓️ 18-19 November
📍 Birmingham | Online
Sign up 🔽
www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...
Current developments in cluster randomised trials and stepped-wedge designs
This two-day event will comprise of a series of short presentations on key developments in the methodology of cluster and stepped-wedge randomised trials, as well as examples of applications and
www.lshtm.ac.uk
November 3, 2025 at 12:58 PM
🚨 Calling #statisticians #trialists and those working in #healthdata & #PublicHealth
Join our two-day conference on the latest and most important developments in cluster randomised trials & stepped-wedge designs
🗓️ 18-19 November
📍 Birmingham | Online
Sign up 🔽
www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...
Join our two-day conference on the latest and most important developments in cluster randomised trials & stepped-wedge designs
🗓️ 18-19 November
📍 Birmingham | Online
Sign up 🔽
www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...
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🌈 Do you know anyone passionate about researching LGBTQ+ suicide, suicide prevention and suicide bereavement, experienced in qualitative methods, and looking for work?
Send them my way because I'm recruiting for a post-doctoral research fellow!
elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Send them my way because I'm recruiting for a post-doctoral research fellow!
elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Research Fellow (Rain within the Rainbow)
Post-doctoral Research Fellow (Rain Within the Rainbow) working on the Rain Within the Rainbow: Understanding LGBTQ+ suicide and suicide prevention in the UK through the life course project using qual...
elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:50 AM
🌈 Do you know anyone passionate about researching LGBTQ+ suicide, suicide prevention and suicide bereavement, experienced in qualitative methods, and looking for work?
Send them my way because I'm recruiting for a post-doctoral research fellow!
elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Send them my way because I'm recruiting for a post-doctoral research fellow!
elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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This article made me think. Well penned, Josh.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I’m a teenager who was lured into the manosphere. Here’s how to reach young men like me | Josh Sargent
Masculinity is almost always presented as toxic on my feed – but we need constructive alternatives to give hope to those who feel lost, says Josh Sargent
www.theguardian.com
November 2, 2025 at 6:24 PM
This article made me think. Well penned, Josh.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The life expectancy gap is due largely to preventable health issues, not suicide.
👉 Read the full story: theconversation.com/heres-w...
👉 Read the full story: theconversation.com/heres-w...
November 3, 2025 at 2:21 AM
The life expectancy gap is due largely to preventable health issues, not suicide.
👉 Read the full story: theconversation.com/heres-w...
👉 Read the full story: theconversation.com/heres-w...