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Awards & Media

Honours and Awards

2007 MoodGYM receives a Yogie Award from the Youth Coalition of the ACT for outstanding practice in working with young people in the ACT and surrounding area.

2007 YouthMood wins the Mental Health Special Focus Award at the 2007 ACT Early Intervention Awards hosted by Supportlink.

2007 YouthMood wins the Gold Achievement Award (Infant, Child and Adolescent Programs category) at the 2007 Mental Health Services (THEMHS) Conference.

2006 The BluePages Team received the ANU Vice Chancellor’s Award for Community Outreach.

2005 MoodGYM was awarded an AHA Baxter Healthcare National Innovation Award (Health Outcomes category).

2004 The MoodGYM Training Program website was the winner of the Services Innovation Category iAward.
The iAwards are the Australian ICT industry’s national program honouring the year’s " Best of the Best" ICT business strategies.

2004 The BluePages website received a Mental Health Website Award from the International Media and Mental Health Conference.

2004 Helen Christensen and Kathy Griffiths received the Australian National University Prize for Innovative IT Applications on Campus.

2004 Helen Christensen was elected to be a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia

2002 Kathy Griffiths was awarded the Australasian Society for Psychiatric Research’s Consumer-Researcher Award.

Selected Media Stories

Computerworld

"Mental health problems? Jump on the e-couch", by Andrew Hendry (December 2007)

666 ABC Canberra

"Going Gourmet for Mental Health Research", by Ping Lo (November 2007)

6 Minutes

"Online Psych Help Clicks With Patients", page 2 (July 2007)

E-Health Insider

"Interactive Websites Could Reduce Depression Stigma" (October 2006)

Readers Digest articles

"Health Smart: Bringing Back the Brightness" by Dr Norman Swan, featuring MoodGYM and BluePages (April 2005)

ABC The Health Report

"Internet-Based Intervention for Depression" (October 2006)

"On-Line Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Depression" (March 2004)

"Depression Information on the Internet" (February 2001)

ABC Health Matters Feature

"Cybertherapy" (November 2004)

Sydney Morning Herald IT

"Doctor in the Mouse" (January 2004)
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