BACKGROUND Mental health literacy is the beliefs and knowledge about mental health issues and their remedies. Attitudes and beliefs of lay individuals about mental illness are shaped by personal knowledge about mental illness, knowing and interacting with someone living with mental illness, and cultural stereotypes. Mental health issues are increasing and are alarming in almost every part of th...

Curriculum documents in Australia and elsewhere emphasize the importance of mental computation. There has been, however, little advice about developing and implementing mathematics programs that have mental computation strategies as a focus. One primary school’s response to this issue was to identify generic mental computation strategies that could be developed across the school in all grades f...

The study of age at onset of mental health disorders is technically and conceptually difficult. It is important to consider these age distributions in order to understand causes and mechanisms of illness and to intervene at an appropriate juncture for primary and secondary prevention. This article reviews some of the approaches to studying age at onset, sets out the evidence to support the asse...