Congratulations to the Centre’s 2022 Honours students on their scholarship awards and we wish them all the best for their research and training
Validation of the Male Depression Risk Scale short form in a cross-sectional study of Australian men. Herreen D, Rice S, Zajac I. Brief assessment of male depression in clinical care:BMJ Open. 2022 Mar 28;12(3):e053650. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-053650.
Contact: Dr Ian Zajac
To celebrate International Women’s Day, the Centre is highlighting some of the fantastic women of men’s health that have been supported by the Centre and are achieving great work in the field. FCMHW encourages and commends the involvement of women in men’s health and hopes to further support it in the future.
This Program aims to listen to the voices of young males around mental health and wellbeing within masculinised sporting cultures, explore the way in which sporting clubs work with young males around mental health and wellbeing, investigate the way in which masculinities are created, maintained, and perpetuated within masculinized sporting clubs, and promote the importance of mental health and wellbeing as a key element of sporting club culture.
Contact: Murray Drummond
The metacognitive training (MCT) programme is an effective psychological treatment for reducing delusional symptoms and may be particularly effective in young men. This is due to MCT’s unique focuses on the underlying problematic thinking styles responsible for delusions, rather than directly challenging these beliefs, which makes it a less confrontational approach.
Contact: Ryan Balzan
This program’s focus is on de-stigmatising psychosis and its youth-friendly audio-visual delivery to help foster a strong therapeutic alliance that will also help young men stay engaged with therapy and could improve their long-term prognosis.
Using COVID-19 response data collected from men in the Florey Adelaide Male Ageing Study (FAMAS) & the North West Adelaide Health Study (NWAHS), the aim is to develop a detailed understanding of the acute and medium-term economic drivers of mental and physical health maintenance in well-characterised, representative cohorts of men.
Contact: Prof Robert Adams
We will continue to collect the stories/accounts of male veteran suicide from families or survivors, and use this to identify i) the service-related contexts, ii) post service-related contexts, iii) the family and social support elements, iv) the institutional support elements, and v) mental and physical health elements of men’s suicide or attempted suicide.
This program hopes to continue to formally define the relationship between the ideals of manhood, the impacts of military training and service and their relationship with poor mental health or moral injury leading to suicide attempt or death.
Contact: Ben Wadham
We will continue to collect the stories/accounts of male veteran suicide from families or survivors, and use this to identify i) the service-related contexts, ii) post service-related contexts, iii) the family and social support elements, iv) the institutional support elements, and v) mental and physical health elements of men’s suicide or attempted suicide.
