Yun Ju Christine Song
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 6576219 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Yun Ju Christine Song |
| NOMBRES | Yun Ju Christine |
| APELLIDO | Song |
| FIRMA | SONG Y J C |
| AFILIACIONES | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8776-6305 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 0 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2020 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 0 |
Evaluating placebo responses to intranasal oxytocin in autism
BACKGROUND: The placebo effect is established in clinical trials, but for paediatric research, questions remain about how to best manage its influence. Within the autism field, data on these issues is sparse. This is particularly important in the oxytocin field where placebo responses are thought to play an important role. This study reports on data from the single-blind, placebo lead-in phase of a randomised controlled trial (RCT) to investigate…
One Eye Open
BACKGROUND: The integration of lived experience within mental health research remains inconsistent, with many models positioning lived experience in advisory rather than embedded roles. This can limit meaningful engagement and reduce the relevance and translational impact of research. APPROACH: Drawing on an ongoing five-year Welcome Trust-funded programme investigating sleep and circadian rhythm disturbances in youth-onset mood disorders, this v…
Developing a conceptual framework for cultural adaptation of digital parenting interventions
Cultural adaptation is essential for effective implementation of digital parenting interventions across diverse settings, including in low- and middle-income countries. Dominant frameworks for cultural adaptation focus on intervention design components at the expense of attending to processes of adaptation that take place during implementation and neglect the significance of cultural context for measurement and evaluation of outcomes. Despite man…
Parental emotional adjustment as a primary target for parenting programs
A robust literature demonstrates the importance of supporting parents' mental health and emotional adjustment to improve both parent and child outcomes. Our results highlight that better emotional adjustment is associated with more positive parenting practices, suggesting that interventions that support a parent's ability to cope with the parenting role will increase the use of responsive and nurturing childrearing practices. However, further res…
Youth Perspectives on ‘Highly Personalised and Measurement‐Based Care’
OBJECTIVES: Despite high levels of mental ill-health amongst young people (aged 15-30), this group demonstrates low help-seeking and high drop-out from mental health services (MHS). Whilst shared decision-making can assist people in receiving appropriate and effective health care, young people frequently report that they do not feel involved in treatment decisions. The current study focused on co-design of a clinical education and participant inf…
Childcare in Contemporary Africa
Kinship care and child fostering are a common practice in certain parts of Africa. This narrative review seeks to explore and thematically code the contextual circumstances in which children leave their natal homes and are fostered across Africa and the corresponding outcomes for these children. It draws on case studies from Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Namibia and other countries across the region to illus…
Building systemic resilience, productivity and well-being
Strengthening mental health research outcomes through genuine partnerships with young people with lived or living experience
BACKGROUND: Despite increasing support for stakeholder inclusion in research, there is limited evaluative research to guide safe (i.e., youth-friendly) and meaningful (i.e., non-tokenistic) partnerships with young people with lived experience of mental ill-health in research. This paper describes a pilot evaluation and iterative design of a Youth Lived Experience Working Group (LEWG) protocol that was established by the Youth Mental Health and Te…
Measuring, Modeling, and Forecasting the Mental Wealth of Nations
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the deep links and fragility of economic, health and social systems. Discussions of reconstruction include renewed interest in moving beyond GDP and recognizing “human capital”, “brain capital”, “mental capital”, and “wellbeing” as assets fundamental to economic reimagining, productivity, and prosperity. This paper describes how the conceptualization of Mental Wealth provides an important framing for measuring an…
A Dynamic Approach to Economic Priority Setting to Invest in Youth Mental Health and Guide Local Implementation
Equipping SD models to undertake economic analysis is intended to support local priority setting and help optimise implementation regarding the best value mix of investments, timing and scale. The objectives are to improve allocative efficiency, increase mental health and economic productivity
Sound Decision Making in Uncertain Times
The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated the significant value of systems modelling in supporting proactive and effective public health decision making despite the complexities and uncertainties that characterise an evolving crisis. The same approach is possible in the field of mental health. However, a commonly levelled (but misguided) criticism prevents systems modelling from being more routinely adopted, namely, that the presence of uncertainty arou…
Optimizing Strategies for Improving Mental Health in Victoria, Australia during the Covid-19 Era
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the mental health of populations and highlighted the limitations of mental health care systems. As the trajectory of the pandemic and the economic recovery are still uncertain, decision tools are needed to help evaluate the best interventions to improve mental health outcomes. We developed a system dynamics model that captures causal relationships among population, demographics, post-secondary education,…
Partnering with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples
The social and emotional wellbeing of young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples should be supported through an Indigenous-led and community empowering approach. Applying systems thinking via participatory approaches is aligned with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander research paradigms and can be an effective method to deliver a decision support tool for mental health systems planning for Indigenous communities. Evaluations are necess…
Participatory Systems Modelling for Youth Mental Health
The youth mental health sector is persistently challenged by issues such as service fragmentation and inefficient resource allocation. Systems modelling and simulation, particularly utilizing participatory approaches, is offering promise in supporting evidence-informed decision making with limited resources by testing alternative strategies in safe virtual environments before implementing them in the real world. However, improved evaluation effor…
The Palestine-Israel Issue in the Post-Covid-19 Era — From the Perspective of Neocolonialism
Strictly speaking, the economic relationship between Israel and Palestine cannot be simply defined as neocolonial occupation, but are closely related to neo-colonialism, in terms of control, dependence, resistance, exploitation, monopoly and interference. Therefore, neo-colonialism can be used as a perspective to analyse the economic relations between Palestine and Israel. Although the two sides have always been in a relatively hostile relationsh…
Which Social, Economic, and Health Sector Strategies Will Deliver the Greatest Impacts for Youth Mental Health and Suicide Prevention? Protocol for an Advanced, Systems Modelling Approach
Background: Current global challenges are generating extensive social disruption and uncertainty that have the potential to undermine the mental health, wellbeing, and futures of young people. The scale and complexity of challenges call for engagement with systems science-based decision analytic tools that can capture the dynamics and interrelationships between physical, social, economic, and health systems, and support effective national and reg…
The Science of Complex Systems Is Needed to Ameliorate the Impacts of Covid-19 on Mental Health
Jo-An Atkinson1,2*Yun Ju Christine Song1Kathleen R. Merikangas3Adam Skinner1Ante Prodan1,2,4Frank Iorfino1Louise Freebairn1,5Danya Rose1Nicholas Ho1Jacob Crouse1Vadim Zipunnikov6Ian B. Hickie1
Machine Learning for Differential Diagnosis Between Clinical Conditions With Social Difficulty
Differential diagnosis in adult cohorts with social difficulty is confounded by comorbid mental health conditions, common etiologies, and shared phenotypes. Identifying shared and discriminating profiles can facilitate intervention and remediation strategies. The objective of the study was to identify salient features of a composite test battery of cognitive and mood measures using a machine learning paradigm in clinical cohorts with social inter…
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The Science of Complex Systems Is Needed to Ameliorate the Impacts of Covid-19 on Mental Health
Jo-An Atkinson1,2*Yun Ju Christine Song1Kathleen R. Merikangas3Adam Skinner1Ante Prodan1,2,4Frank Iorfino1Louise Freebairn1,5Danya Rose1Nicholas Ho1Jacob Crouse1Vadim Zipunnikov6Ian B. Hickie1
Machine Learning for Differential Diagnosis Between Clinical Conditions With Social Difficulty
Differential diagnosis in adult cohorts with social difficulty is confounded by comorbid mental health conditions, common etiologies, and shared phenotypes. Identifying shared and discriminating profiles can facilitate intervention and remediation strategies. The objective of the study was to identify salient features of a composite test battery of cognitive and mood measures using a machine learning paradigm in clinical cohorts with social inter…
The Palestine-Israel Issue in the Post-Covid-19 Era — From the Perspective of Neocolonialism
Strictly speaking, the economic relationship between Israel and Palestine cannot be simply defined as neocolonial occupation, but are closely related to neo-colonialism, in terms of control, dependence, resistance, exploitation, monopoly and interference. Therefore, neo-colonialism can be used as a perspective to analyse the economic relations between Palestine and Israel. Although the two sides have always been in a relatively hostile relationsh…
Which Social, Economic, and Health Sector Strategies Will Deliver the Greatest Impacts for Youth Mental Health and Suicide Prevention? Protocol for an Advanced, Systems Modelling Approach
Background: Current global challenges are generating extensive social disruption and uncertainty that have the potential to undermine the mental health, wellbeing, and futures of young people. The scale and complexity of challenges call for engagement with systems science-based decision analytic tools that can capture the dynamics and interrelationships between physical, social, economic, and health systems, and support effective national and reg…
Measuring, Modeling, and Forecasting the Mental Wealth of Nations
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the deep links and fragility of economic, health and social systems. Discussions of reconstruction include renewed interest in moving beyond GDP and recognizing “human capital”, “brain capital”, “mental capital”, and “wellbeing” as assets fundamental to economic reimagining, productivity, and prosperity. This paper describes how the conceptualization of Mental Wealth provides an important framing for measuring an…
A Dynamic Approach to Economic Priority Setting to Invest in Youth Mental Health and Guide Local Implementation
Equipping SD models to undertake economic analysis is intended to support local priority setting and help optimise implementation regarding the best value mix of investments, timing and scale. The objectives are to improve allocative efficiency, increase mental health and economic productivity
Sound Decision Making in Uncertain Times
The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated the significant value of systems modelling in supporting proactive and effective public health decision making despite the complexities and uncertainties that characterise an evolving crisis. The same approach is possible in the field of mental health. However, a commonly levelled (but misguided) criticism prevents systems modelling from being more routinely adopted, namely, that the presence of uncertainty arou…
Optimizing Strategies for Improving Mental Health in Victoria, Australia during the Covid-19 Era
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the mental health of populations and highlighted the limitations of mental health care systems. As the trajectory of the pandemic and the economic recovery are still uncertain, decision tools are needed to help evaluate the best interventions to improve mental health outcomes. We developed a system dynamics model that captures causal relationships among population, demographics, post-secondary education,…
Partnering with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples
The social and emotional wellbeing of young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples should be supported through an Indigenous-led and community empowering approach. Applying systems thinking via participatory approaches is aligned with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander research paradigms and can be an effective method to deliver a decision support tool for mental health systems planning for Indigenous communities. Evaluations are necess…
Participatory Systems Modelling for Youth Mental Health
The youth mental health sector is persistently challenged by issues such as service fragmentation and inefficient resource allocation. Systems modelling and simulation, particularly utilizing participatory approaches, is offering promise in supporting evidence-informed decision making with limited resources by testing alternative strategies in safe virtual environments before implementing them in the real world. However, improved evaluation effor…
Building systemic resilience, productivity and well-being
Strengthening mental health research outcomes through genuine partnerships with young people with lived or living experience
BACKGROUND: Despite increasing support for stakeholder inclusion in research, there is limited evaluative research to guide safe (i.e., youth-friendly) and meaningful (i.e., non-tokenistic) partnerships with young people with lived experience of mental ill-health in research. This paper describes a pilot evaluation and iterative design of a Youth Lived Experience Working Group (LEWG) protocol that was established by the Youth Mental Health and Te…
Youth Perspectives on ‘Highly Personalised and Measurement‐Based Care’
OBJECTIVES: Despite high levels of mental ill-health amongst young people (aged 15-30), this group demonstrates low help-seeking and high drop-out from mental health services (MHS). Whilst shared decision-making can assist people in receiving appropriate and effective health care, young people frequently report that they do not feel involved in treatment decisions. The current study focused on co-design of a clinical education and participant inf…
Childcare in Contemporary Africa
Kinship care and child fostering are a common practice in certain parts of Africa. This narrative review seeks to explore and thematically code the contextual circumstances in which children leave their natal homes and are fostered across Africa and the corresponding outcomes for these children. It draws on case studies from Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Namibia and other countries across the region to illus…
Developing a conceptual framework for cultural adaptation of digital parenting interventions
Cultural adaptation is essential for effective implementation of digital parenting interventions across diverse settings, including in low- and middle-income countries. Dominant frameworks for cultural adaptation focus on intervention design components at the expense of attending to processes of adaptation that take place during implementation and neglect the significance of cultural context for measurement and evaluation of outcomes. Despite man…
Parental emotional adjustment as a primary target for parenting programs
A robust literature demonstrates the importance of supporting parents' mental health and emotional adjustment to improve both parent and child outcomes. Our results highlight that better emotional adjustment is associated with more positive parenting practices, suggesting that interventions that support a parent's ability to cope with the parenting role will increase the use of responsive and nurturing childrearing practices. However, further res…
Evaluating placebo responses to intranasal oxytocin in autism
BACKGROUND: The placebo effect is established in clinical trials, but for paediatric research, questions remain about how to best manage its influence. Within the autism field, data on these issues is sparse. This is particularly important in the oxytocin field where placebo responses are thought to play an important role. This study reports on data from the single-blind, placebo lead-in phase of a randomised controlled trial (RCT) to investigate…
One Eye Open
BACKGROUND: The integration of lived experience within mental health research remains inconsistent, with many models positioning lived experience in advisory rather than embedded roles. This can limit meaningful engagement and reduce the relevance and translational impact of research. APPROACH: Drawing on an ongoing five-year Welcome Trust-funded programme investigating sleep and circadian rhythm disturbances in youth-onset mood disorders, this v…
Mental health (12 obras) · Psychology (12 obras) · Psychiatry (10 obras) · Medicine (9 obras) · Sociology (7 obras) · Economics (5 obras) · Health disparities and outcomes (5 obras) · Health Policy Implementation Science (5 obras) · Economic growth (4 obras) · Employment and Welfare Studies (4 obras)