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Engaging Indigenous people within Higher Ed

CQUniversity's Office of Indigenous Engagement recently hosted a visit from the Oodgeroo Unit of Queensland University of Technology (QUT), at Rockhampton Campus.

Professor Anita Lee Hong, Director of the Oodgeroo Unit, and Lone Pearce, Project Officer, met with Office of Indigenous Engagement staff to discuss employment issues and best practice models for engaging Indigenous people within the higher education sector, including governance matters.

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Research aimed at better treatment choices for mental disorders 

Published on 07 November, 2006 

CQU psychology academic Dr Alan Keen has been fine-tuning a popular test used to distinguish the underlying problem in people experiencing depression, anxiety and stress.

PhotoID:3464 Since depression, anxiety and stress often overlap, it is important to reveal the primary cause of problems in order to plan the pathway for treatment.

Dr Keen was aware the popular DASS (Depression, Anxiety, Stress Scale) test was developed with students, tending to represent a normal population.

He has refined the test based on surveys of 700 people with mental disorders, representing a clinical population.

In addition, Dr Keen has reduced the number of test items from 42 to 18, making the test easy to implement in health settings like General Practices.

"Research shows the refined version of DASS, while easy to administer, still has a very strong capacity for discrimination between the key disorders," he said.

Dr Keen is submitting his research to professional journals.