BULLYING, whether face-to-face or online, can have a devastating effect on people, particularly the younger generations.
It can affect anybody in various scenarios and can increase a person's chance of developing anxiety or depression.
So this week’s Friday Forum talks about strategies to counter bullying.
With the National Day of Action against Bullying and Violence on March 18 and National Youth Week in April, now is a good time to discuss bullying, the impact it has on mental health and strategies to deal with it.
The Land and the Rural Adversity Mental Health Program (RAMHP) have partnered to get more people talking about mental health.
Join us on Friday, March 4, from 12pm, to talk about bullying, youth and mental health. Go to www.theland.com.au on the day and follow the links.
Our panel members are ready to answer your questions about a number of important issues, including:
- The signs someone is experiencing bullying, including cyber bullying;
- What action to take when you or someone else is being bullied;
- Where to get help;
- When to get help;
- How to talk about it.
The panellists include Nicole Johnson, a psychologist with about 20 years’ experience working with people across the age spans and in regional and remote locations.
She now focuses those skills on working with young people at Headspace Orange, and is completing a doctorate in clinical psychology that focuses on delivering psychology services in regional and remote parts of Australia.
Sophie Potter is the online community manager at ReachOut, part of the Inspire Foundation. She has been with ReachOut Australia since 2011 managing the online peer-support spaces with a focus on mental health promotion, prevention and early intervention.
Sophie also works on a new peer-support forum for parents. She has been working in community development, youth work and women's health and across the UK, South East Asia and Australia for more than a decade.
Jessica Dumble is a member of the Youth Brains Trust at the Young and Well Co-operative Research Centre.
She works in a busy emergency department in regional Victoria and is also an aspiring psychiatrist, writer, and is involved in youth mental health advocacy.
Join the Friday Forum here on March 4 at 12pm.
