Associate Professor, Curtin University
Sharyn is the Director of Health Promotion and Sexology and a Co-Director of the Western Australian Centre for Health Promotion Research within the School of Public Health. She writes and teaches a range of undergraduate and postgraduate health promotion units and supervises Masters and PhD students. Sharyn's research focuses on mental health promotion and prevention and obesity prevention with a particular emphasis on children, youth and parents. Current research includes intervention based research focusing on bullying prevention in schools, promoting physical activity and nutrition for mothers with young children, encouraging fathers to support breastfeeding and evaluating peer-based programs.
Why we shouldn't ignore what 13 Reasons Why is trying to tell us
Apr 28, 2017 07:24 am UTC| Insights & Views Entertainment
The Netflix show 13 Reasons Why has stirred debate recently, with growing numbers of calls to counselling services from those alarmed the shows graphic depiction of suicide could be harmful to vulnerable teenagers. Some...
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