Australia holidays: Melbourne s best cultural experiences, from coffee to art
31 Mar, 2021 04:00 PM
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Thanks to its abundance of art galleries and museums, including the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne has gained a reputation as the cultural capital of Australia. Photo / Robert Blackburn
Thanks to its abundance of art galleries and museums, including the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne has gained a reputation as the cultural capital of Australia. Photo / Robert Blackburn
NZ Herald
By: Kirstie Bedford
Kirstie Bedford discovers why Melbourne is dubbed the cultural capital of Australia and where you need to go to get amongst it
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Norman Garmezy, a developmental psychologist and clinician at the University of Minnesota, met thousands of children in his four decades of research. But one boy in particular stuck with him. He was nine years old, with an alcoholic mother and an absent father. Each day, he would arrive at school with the exact same sandwich: two slices of bread with nothing in between. At home, there was no other food available, and no one to make any. Even so, Garmezy would later recall, the boy wanted to make sure that “no one would feel pity for him and no one would know the ineptitude of his mother.” Each day, without fail, he would walk in with a smile on his face and a “bread sandwich” tucked into his bag.
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Computerized, remote training program alleviates negative emotions in preadolescents
Anxiety levels in the United States are rising sharply and have especially intensified in younger populations. According to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, anxiety disorders affect 31.9 percent of children ages 13 to 18 years old. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, children and adolescents have experienced unprecedented interruptions to their daily lives and it is expected that these disruptions may precipitate mental illness, including anxiety, depression, and/or stress related symptoms.
Traditional anxiety and depression treatments include cognitive behavioral therapy and psychiatric medications, which are somewhat successful in alleviating symptoms in adults. However, they have yielded some mixed results in children. Therefore, discovering appropriate means for reducing childhood anxiety and depression that are both affordable and accessible is paramount.